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The Roadracing World Action Fund arranged to have five additional sections of Airfence modules hauled from the AMA U.S. Flat Track Championship event in Springfield, Illinois to increase protection for racers at the AMA U.S. Superbike Championship round at Pikes Peak International Raceway in Fountain, Colorado Sunday, June 1.

AMA road racers compete on a 1.315-mile infield road course inside of PPIR’s one-mile speedway car oval track.

“John Ulrich had come up to me this morning after practice had started and said, ‘We had five pieces of Airfence shipped in from the Springfield dirt track,'” said AMA Pro Racing’s Ron Barrick. “He alerted me that it was here and available for use and that it belonged to the Roadracingworld World Action Fund. We decided we would create an action plan and get it deployed as soon as we could, which was the lunch break.”

The additional Airfence modules were deployed in front of the concrete retaining wall outside of PPIR’s speedway turn two. The five extra modules brought the total number of Airfence modules deployed at Pikes Peak June 1 to 32.

The five extra Airfence modules, bought for road race use, had been deployed at Springfield with six modules purchased for dirt track use. The five road race modules were hauled from Springfield to Pikes Peak by Danny Walker’s SuperCamp, and are being hauled from Pikes Peak to Road America by racer Chris Ulrich. After Road America, two modules will be sent to Texas for use by CMRA, two will replace damaged modules in the Airfence inventory deployed by F-USA/CCS and the remaining module will be deployed as needed.