I SIGNED with YAMAHA RACING for MotoAmerica 2021!

Alright guys, what's up? We're at Buttonwillow and I'm riding the Fresh and Lean Attack Yamaha for the first time. We'll be racing Superbike next year for Attack Yamaha again. Fresh and Lean stepped up, title sponsor in the team, which has been super sick. I know when I first met Thomas, the owner of Fresh and Lean, it was small sponsorships and it's turning something bigger and bigger each year and now title sponsor in the factory Yamaha team in America. It's a pretty cool feeling. I think everybody at Fresh and Lean is pretty pumped to be able to do this. For me to come back and race for the Attack Yamaha is a dream come true. I think it's going to be a great year. I'm just excited to work with Richard again, working with my old mechanic Will, Fernando, I got new mechanic Lee. It's been awesome. It's been really good to be able to get on the bike early. It's only December and we're able to come out and test now on the bike. It's good to just get some laps on the thing and kind of get back to feeling comfortable. I've rode two different manufacturers since the last time I rode this bike, so it's a little bit to get used to again, but it's been pretty quick to kind of feel like home again. Yeah, just couldn't be happier to get this opportunity. Thank you to Richard at Attack Performance. Thanks to everybody at Yamaha for putting in the hard work to make this possible. Thank you to Thomas and everybody at Fresh and Lean. Just excited for a great year. We'll be able to fight for wins and championship and have some fun racing again. Yeah, 2021 I'm looking forward to. It's my second year on this Yamaha R1. This Attack Performance R1 has been an amazing ride. I'm stoked Fresh and Lean is coming on board for our title sponsor. That's huge, so thank you to those guys. I think we'll have a lot of great racing this year. We're out here at Buttonwillow. We just finished up a couple days of testing. It's been great so far. I'm really looking forward to seeing the improvements. We'll keep going faster. I got a great crew behind me. Yeah, looking forward to more off-season testing and getting to that first race. I first worked with Josh in 2017. It was on the Mean Motorsports Yamaha. We helped him win his Super Stock Championship. I think that was his second championship in Moto America or AMA. Then I worked with him again in 2018 on our Super Bike. We won a couple races and we also finished third in the championship. It's going to be kind of fun to have Josh back on our team again. Josh has ridden a couple of different kinds of motorcycles. It's much different. The Oshimura Suzuki and then he rode a BMW last year. Those bikes are considerably different than the Yamaha. We have to refocus and retrain his brain to the Yamaha again. I think today we learned a lot today and yesterday in getting him some laps and starting to get himself comfortable on the Yamaha again. All right, guys, that's a wrap here. We're all finished up at Buttonwillow. First test on the Fresh and Lean ATAK Yamaha. The laps that I was able to do was great. But the weather, we had some really bad wind earlier. Brought a lot of dirt on the track. The cars were helping clean off mostly because we kind of split the day with cars today. But they don't use some of the track that we use. There was literally layers of dirt on the track. I was out behind Jake and I could see his tire marks going through. It kind of hurt us for track time. But it's awesome that this year I'm able to be able to spend some laps on the bike that I'm racing in December where last year I didn't get to spend laps on it until March. And even when I did, I got injured. I had the high side at Albert Barber in the wet. So I didn't really get any testing on that bike for last year. So it's good, even if it was only, you know, we got a handful of laps yesterday and today. So good riding. Today just got shortened up a bit. So that's why we didn't have as much footage for you guys. We tried to get as much as we could. And yeah, I had a blast riding the bike. I feel at home already working with the same crew I was before. So it's a dream come true for me. Super appreciative of the opportunity and looking to make the most of it. And ready to go back home and start working out hard. And be ready for when testing starts up again in January. So see you guys then. Peace out.