Michael Jordan Motorsports Suzuki’s Jason Pridmore walked away from a violent crash into a tire wall during Friday morning’s AMA Superstock practice at Barber Motorsports Park. Pridmore said he was exiting the very fast turn 8/9 chicane on the back straightaway when his rear tire broke traction and threw him out of the seat. He landed partially off the right side of the bike, which then veered off the track to the right. Once off the track, Pridmore and the bike separated before they both impacted a tire wall in front of an Armco barrier. After Pridmore fell off, his GSX-R1000 ghost rode into the tire wall hard enough that both the bike’s top and bottom triple clamps were broken in half, along with both fork legs. And Pridmore was tumbling at about 40 mph when he hit the tire wall, according to eye witness Geoff May, who was behind Pridmore on the track at the time of the crash. Pridmore hit his head hard enough to see “stars,” something he said hasn’t happened “in a while” and got his right hand caught under the bike, leading him to ice the hand after the session. Still, Pridmore got up from the crash, ran back to pit lane and took his back-up bike out in the same practice.