Herrin Leads Close Title Chase As Superbike Racing Returns To Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course

Ten Years Later And MotoAmerica’s Steel Commander Superbike Series Headlines A Return to Mid-Ohio 

IRVINE, CA – August 13, 2024 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – The last time the AMA Superbike Championship raced at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, a baby-faced, 24-year-old named Josh Herrin was struggling his way through a miserable Moto2 World Championship campaign and wishing he was at Mid-Ohio. That was 2014. This is now. And Herrin arrives at Mid-Ohio as the leader of the 2024 MotoAmerica Steel Commander Superbike Championship in the series’ return to the Buckeye State after a 10-year hiatus.

Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin leads the 2024 MotoAmerica Steel Commander Superbike Championship in the return to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course after a 10-year hiatus.
Photo by Brian J. Nelson

Everyone is champing at the bit to get back to racing in the Permco MotoAmerica Superbikes at Mid-Ohio event after a nearly one-month summer break since round six at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. The time is now for championship wannabes to step up as the series reaches its boiling point with rounds at Circuit of The Americas and New Jersey Motorsports Park hot on the heels of the much-anticipated seventh round at Mid-Ohio.

Herrin, the 2013 AMA Superbike Champion, is atop the standings but this championship is far from over as he has several rivals nipping at his heels. There are 46 points separating the top five in the point standings with three rounds and seven races left to run in the fight for the title.

With three wins and four additional podium finishes, Herrin and his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati Panigale V4 R lead the Steel Commander Superbike Championship by 15 points over Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne with the three-time and defending champion somehow managing to contend for the title despite near-season-long arm-pump issues.

Gagne has just a single race win but he has scored points in each and every round, including four additional podium finishes to go with his lone victory.

Just eight points behind Gagne and 23 behind Herrin is Wrench Motorcycles’ Bobby Fong. The 2019 MotoAmerica Supersport Champion’s double win at Brainerd International Raceway put him atop the standings heading into the Ridge Motorsports Park round. It was there, however, that Fong faltered in race one when he chose to use slicks when he needed rain tires, and that miscue was followed by a crash in race one at Laguna Seca. Still, the…