Garrett Gerloff at Aragon MotoGP
Michael Scott | September 25, 2017
Double MotoAmerica Supersport Champion Wants That Euro Ride
Gerloff was in Aragon just spectating but has hopes of a European ride (photo from VIR MotoAmerica).
Newly crowned MotoAmerica Supersport champion Garrett Gerloff was listed as one of Dorna’s celebrities at last weekend’s Aragon GP. But the 22-year-old racer from Texas did not find himself on Dorna’s shopping list for a future ride.
“In the end, this is where I want to be,” Gerloff said, at the Spanish track. But he was not visiting any teams, and “presently I’ve heard nothing from Dorna,” he said.
“I want to come to more [grand prix] races and be a face that’s here and around. But mainly it’s an end-of-year vacation,” he said.
His links with Yamaha were in the way of any chance of a Moto2 wild card, “They use the wrong engine,” he said, but he would relish a chance in the future and was impressed by the level of the racing.
“The U.S. series is getting better, and Wayne Rainey is doing a great job,” he said. “There will be more opposition.
“There was competition in my class, but like two other guys who could win, not 10 other guys like here. It would be nice to be able to learn more every time you go out.”
The European standard was partly because riders had been concentrating on road-racing from a young age, he thought.
“In the US it’s difficult to start at the same age. We’ve all come from motocross or flat-track before we go road-racing.”
