ANDERSON INJURED; PEREZ TO RACE IN PITTSBURGH
M4 Rickdiculous Racing Suzuki’s Daytona Anderson suffered a shoulder injury during training and will be forced to sit out Round 8 of the 2017 MotoAmerica Championship this weekend at Pittsburgh International Race Complex.
Anderson suffered a small grade 1 tear of the rotator cuff in his left shoulder. Team Hammer anticipates he will be fit to ride in Round 9 at New Jersey Motorsports Park on September 8-10.
Anderson currently ranks 7th in the MotoAmerica Supersport championship despite being sidelined last time out at Sonoma Raceway due to a stomach illness. He has racked up four top-fives in ’17, including a runner-up result at Utah Motorsports Campus.
Young gun Francesc Perez will sub for Anderson aboard the M4 Rickdiculous Racing Suzuki GSX-R600 this weekend in Pittsburgh.
The Spaniard, who has developed under the watchful eye of MotoAmerica Superbike title leader Toni Elias since 2013, impressed mightily earlier this season while making his MotoAmerica debut. Entered as a wild card in the KTM RC Cup at Utah Motorsports Campus, Perez finished in fourth place in his first-ever MotoAmerica race. He went one better the next day, finishing on the podium in the second half of the weekend doubleheader.
About Team Hammer
The 2017 season marks Team Hammer’s 37th consecutive year of operating as a professional road racing team. Racebikes built and fielded by Team Hammer have won 68 AMA Pro and MotoAmerica National races, have finished on AMA Pro and MotoAmerica National podiums 178 times and have won five AMA Pro National Championships, as well as two FIM South American Championships. The team has also won 134 endurance races overall (including seven 24-hour races) and 13 Overall WERA National Endurance Championships with Suzuki motorcycles, and holds the U.S. record for mileage covered in a 24-hour race. The team also competed in the televised 1990s Formula USA National Championship, famously running “Methanol Monster” GSX-R1100 Superbikes fueled by methanol, and won four F-USA Championships.