In an April 12 phone interview from his headquarters in Anaheim, California, Erion Honda team owner Kevin Erion said that his team had completed a successful one-day test at Willow Springs International Raceway on Wednesday, April 11.

“Sometimes shop time is just as valuable as track time,” said Erion. “We weighed our options of spending the time getting to and from Road Atlanta and felt that that time would be better spent in the shop. Then we went out to Willow for one day and got everything that we wanted to accomplished.”

Erion confirmed that his three riders–Kurtis Roberts, Mark Miller and Jake Zemke–were all healthy and ready for the next round of the AMA series, and (in the case of Miller and Zemke) the first Formula Xtreme race, at Sears Point May 4-6.