Coming To America?

Herlings and USA

There is no doubt about it, the most acclaimed rider in our sport is number 84, Jeffrey Herlings. He might not be the greatest of all time, but he is without question the fastest rider I have ever seen and his credential compared to anyone else in the sport at the moment stands out as the best of the best. 

With the rumours of Herlings heading to America to race the AMA Nationals in a months’ time, and also the talk that Antonio Cairoli will do the first two rounds of the AMA Nationals, the World will once again go crazy, just like we did when AMA legend Ryan Villopoto came to Europe to race in 2015. 

I even think the whole Herlings, and America thing is way bigger than ever RV’s euro adventure, because if Herlings does, he will be 100% in, while many felt Villopoto only came to Europe to get the final part of his Monster Energy contract money.

Having spoken to Herlings team recently, he won't be racing in Latvia next weekend, or in Maggiora in two weeks time, so he won't have much race time (if any) under his belt before the opening AMA Nationals round at the end of May and that might put some question into his decision, as the AMA boys have been racing since January.

While we in Europe want to see the best in the World right here in Europe and see Herlings break Stefan Everts 101 GP wins record, we also wouldn’t mind seeing how he does in USA. Below the American public and three AMA legends are pretty excited if it does happen. See below.

Eli Tomac: Of course I am focused on supercross and want to keep plugging along with what we have going on there and then focus for those two guys. If they came over, it’s going to be awesome competition. All I can say it will be a lot of competition, new tracks for them, they are obviously really fast, and I am sure we will have a lot of great battles if they do come over.

Davey Coombs: Last September Antonio Cairoli announced his retirement in Italy, and he mentioned that he wanted to come and do some Nationals. So, we reserved number 222, just in case he does decide. We are hearing he might do the first two rounds. Then there is the 84 and there is a lot of smoke around that fire, and I hope it is true. Jeffrey Herlings is in a situation he can’t win the 2022 World championship and he will for sure beat Stefan Everts record for GP wins, but the deck is set nicely for him to do something with a wild-card and come race the summer here, without having to do supercross and it would be fantastic to have him. With Plessinger being hurt and Marvin only supercross, I think the fire might heat up soon.

James Stewart: Jeffrey, come on babe, we have a compound out here (inviting Herlings to use his compound). It is funny, but Cairoli hit me up and he said he wanted to come out here and I thought it was strange. He said he will be at Aldons, or that area, so you too Cairoli (are welcome).

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