GRO Performance Lubrication products demonstrated reliability and high performance with MotoAmerica in 2023.
GRO USA sponsored athlete Avery Dreher is the 2023 MotoAmerica Junior Cup Champion. The 17- year old Rockledge, Florida native had a breakout year with podium finishes in 8 out of 10 Junior Cup races (including 6 wins) aboard his Kawasaki Ninja 400. Dreher successfully secured his first MotoAmerica championship at the conclusion of race 10 in Pittsburg besting out the second-place finisher, Rossi Moor, by 43 points.
In the MotoAmerica 2023 Daytona 200, Squid Hunter Racing and rider Joshua Hayes brought their GRO lubricated Yamaha R6 to a photo finish nail biting second place with a time gap of 0.070 seconds.
“Honestly, I had some pace in the infield and in the second and third sectors I was just hanging on,” Hayes said. “I needed them to be able to do it. Two or three laps there, and maybe consecutive, I think I got two where they would get somebody on the entrance to the chicane, and I couldn’t get in the position to do it. So, I’d have to follow a few people through and then I was just kind of hung out there on my own. It was a gap of what you can see in the tri-oval. They were going into one and I was still coming into the tri-oval. I pushed as hard as I could for a while, and I could see I was kind of maintaining. I did the pit stop and came back out and I was kind of in the same position. I might have lost a second to them, but I was relatively in the same position. I fought, and fought, and fought. I finally got what the gap was behind me. I kind of settled in and then I saw Richie (Escalante) on the ground and saw P2. I said, ‘Well, I’m just going to kind of bring her home clean right now.’ Actually, it kind of worked in my favor because I took it pretty easy on the tire at that point, which ended up giving me some tire at the end.”
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Photos by Mark Matson Photography: https://www.mtwophotos.com/