Just got a call from my son who's racing at Road Atlanta this week. During practice this morning he went into turn one too hot, lost the rear tire and low sided. He's OK! No unrepairable damage to the bike. At least nothing that couldn't be taken care of with my credit card number!
This just hasn't been his year for racing. Two weeks ago he went down at Barber doing slight damage to the himself and the bike. Two months before that someone stole his race trailer which contained all his race equipment including tools, compressor, generator, tires, spare parts, leathers, helments, camping equipment, etc. Luckly he had his race bikes in the shop, not the trailer. A loss to his sponsor (me) of about 15K.
Here's hoping next year is better!