OK, the MotoAmerica championship is far from having the same standards as the competitions we are used to, which are called MotoGP, WordlSBK, Endurance, JuniorGP or FSBK: dangerous limit circuits, very heterogeneous level, priority on TV over races , no box but sometimes incongruous tents and motorcycles, as in the King of The Baggers category where Harley-Davidson and Indian compete with machines upgraded and modified equipped with carbon saddlebags that look like anything but racing bikes, except in the USA!
You either love it or you don’t love the MotoAmerica, but its old-school exoticism can also sometimes spawn scenes you’d never see in the major championships…
So when Jeremy McWilliams crashed off the grid at the start of the King of The Baggers Challenge, a 3-lap mini race with a one-time bonus of $5,000 for the winner, the blood of the 58-year-old Northern Irishman does only one lap, and it is neither the injunctions and the steward’s hand resting on his fairing, nor his position on the strip of grass, which might have prevented him from taking the start of this race limited to six motorcycles!
The scene in image, from 1’08.
58 years old, Irish, and still a strong character: we love it!
.@McWill99 went out on too hard of a front tire in Friday’s @MissionFoodsUS King Of The Baggers Practice 1. The Mission Foods/S&S Cycle/@indianmotocycle Challenger Team rider slid out in turn one and was unhurt, while the 600-pound bike also withstood the crash pretty well, too. pic.twitter.com/vh3iZK6bEu
– MotoAmerica (@MotoAmerica) April 23, 2022
