XAVI FORÉS SUBSTITUTING FOR RICHIE ESCALANTE AND VISION WHEEL M4 ECSTAR SUZUKI
Crew Hammer proclaims that Xavi Forés will substitute for injured Richie Escalante aboard the Imaginative and prescient Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki GSX-R1000R Superbike when the 2024 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Street Racing Championship season resumes at Barber Motorsports Park, in Birmingham, Alabama, on Could 17-19. Forés will substitute till Escalante is cleared by MotoAmerica medical.
Escalante is on the mend after crashing with one other rider moments after taking the checkered flag in eighth within the 2024 Superbike season-opening spherical at Street Atlanta. Regardless of strolling away from the autumn beneath his personal energy, the Mexican star was later identified with a left wrist fracture and a left ankle fracture, plus compression fractures of his L1, L2, and L4 vertebrae.
Spaniard Forés is effectively suited to step into the position on quick discover. He’s a really skilled street racer, having competed in lots of top-level sequence throughout his two-decade-plus skilled profession.
Previous to becoming a member of the MotoAmerica tour in 2023, Forés gained the IDM Superbike Championship (2014), the European Superstock 1000 Championship (2013), and the CEV Inventory Excessive Championship (2010 and 2013). He additionally has competed in MotoGP, Moto2, MotoE, 125cc Grand Prix, World Superbike, World Supersport, World Endurance, and British Superbike.
Crew Hammer witnessed the 38-year-old flex all that talent and expertise up shut a yr in the past, when Forés gained the 2023 MotoAmerica Supersport title in dominant vogue, claiming 9 race wins amongst his 12 podium finishes.
“I’m excited for this chance. It’s a disgrace Richie was injured however I’m glad to assist,” stated Forés. “The scenario I’m in, I’ve wished the precise alternative in MotoAmerica Superbike however earlier than this, it hadn’t come up for me but. Richie and I are pals and he’s all the time telling me the bike is able to the rostrum. I do know it’s a good workforce supported by Suzuki, so I really feel like we have now the chance to earn good outcomes. Having an important yr in America final season and studying the paddock and tracks will assist, too.”
ABOUT TEAM HAMMER
The 2024 season marks Crew Hammer’s forty fourth consecutive yr of working as an expert street racing workforce. Racebikes constructed and fielded by Crew Hammer have gained 133 AMA Professional and MotoAmerica Nationwide races, have completed on AMA Professional and MotoAmerica Nationwide podiums 362 instances and have gained 11 AMA Professional and MotoAmerica Nationwide Championships, in addition to two FIM South American Championships (in Superbike and Supersport). The workforce has additionally gained 137 endurance races total (together with seven 24-hour races) and 13 Total WERA Nationwide Endurance Championships with Suzuki bikes, and holds the U.S. document for mileage lined in a 24-hour race. The workforce additionally competed within the televised Nineteen Nineties Components USA Nationwide Championship, famously working “Methanol Monster” GSX-R1100 Superbikes fueled by methanol, and gained 4 F-USA Championships.
ABOUT VISION WHEEL
Based in 1976, Imaginative and prescient Wheel is among the nation’s main suppliers of customized wheels for automobiles and vans, and one of many first producers of customized wheels and tires for ATVs, UTVs, and golf carts. Imaginative and prescient Wheel seems to be past the present traits and to the long run in creating, manufacturing, and distributing its wheels. Imaginative and prescient’s strains of road, race, off-road, American Muscle, and Milanni wheels are distributed nationally and internationally via a trusted community of distributors. Imaginative and prescient Wheel additionally produces the Imaginative and prescient It AR app to permit customers to see how their wheel of selection will look on their automobile earlier than buy and set up. For extra data on Imaginative and prescient Wheel, go to www.visionwheel.com.
ABOUT SUZUKI
Suzuki Motor USA, LLC. (SMO) distributes Bikes, ATVs, Scooters, Automotive Elements, Equipment, and ECSTAR Oils & Chemical compounds by way of an intensive vendor community all through 49 states. Suzuki Motor Company (SMC), based mostly in Hamamatsu, Japan, is a diversified worldwide producer of Bikes, ATVs, Scooters, Vehicles, Outboard Motors, and associated merchandise. Based in 1909 and included in 1920, SMC has enterprise relations with 201 international locations/areas. For extra data, go to www.suzuki.com
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