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Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati New York To Return To Daytona With a Two-Rider Line-Up

Xavi Forés and reigning MotoAmerica Supersport Champion, Josh Herrin, head an all-star line-up for the 2023 Daytona 200

Sunnyvale, Calif., March 7, 2022 — The Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati New York staff will deliver the warmth to Daytona Worldwide Speedway’s excessive banks in Daytona Seashore, Florida, with each Josh Herrin and Xavi Forés set to compete on Ducati Panigale V2 equipment.

Herrin’s 2023 Daytona 200 shall be one through which he hopes so as to add to his 2010 race victory. Ought to he achieve this, he would be part of a choose group of established stars to have taken a victory within the nice race on two completely different manufacturers and capacities.

For journeyman Forés, the Daytona 200 will sign one more new race in his arsenal forward of his MotoAmerica Supersport Championship debut at Highway Atlanta on April 21-23. The Spaniard spent 2022 competing in choose rounds of the WorldSBK Championship for Barni Ducati, alongside a full season of the FIM Enel MotoE World Championship for Pramac Racing, and the Endurance World Championship (EWC) for Crew ERC Endurance Ducati. Xavi shall be aboard his Warhorse HSBK V2, displaying the World Endurance Crew ERC livery. He will even have his staff ERC crew members who shall be aiding Xavi’s combat for the 200 win.

Xavi Forés (Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati New York – Ducati #12)
“It’s going to be my first time at Daytona and I’m actually excited,” Forés mentioned. “I actually hope to do properly as a result of I used to be racing within the Endurance World Championship the previous few years so I’m used to lengthy races with pitstops. My endurance staff will come to Daytona to assist, which shall be a bonus for everybody on the HSBK staff,” mentioned Forés. “I’ve been driving the Ducati Panigale V2 in Spain this final month and I really feel actually robust on this bike. I’ve been capable of do some quick lap instances however I do know racing in America shall be a brand new problem. I’ll return to Spain after Daytona as my companion and I expect a brand new child quickly, after which all three of us will transfer to America for the season, so this 12 months shall be very thrilling.”

Josh Herrin (Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati New York – Ducati #1)
“I’m tremendous pumped about returning to Daytona,” Herrin mentioned. “It’s going to be a extremely thrilling race. “The 200 is certainly one of my favourite occasions. I really feel we’ve at all times completed properly there, but it surely’s an enormous effort and never only a brief 20-lap race. There are a variety of items to the puzzle to win there—plenty of drafting and pit stops, and it’s such a tough place on the bike with forces you don’t get wherever else,” Herrin mentioned. “I’m excited to get a second probability on the V2 earlier than I trip in MotoAmerica Superbike, and having Xavi Forés within the staff shall be actually cool. After seeing how the V2 carried out final 12 months, I do know we’ll be within the combine. I’ve been placing in a variety of work on the bicycle over the previous three months and have dropped 15 kilos from the place I used to be final 12 months, so I’m feeling nice, I do know the bike shall be quick, and I can’t wait to get going.”

The 81st working of the Daytona 200 is scheduled for March September 11, 2023.