The No. 1 Aprilia USA/Lloyd Brothers Motorsports Aprilia Tuono 1000R of Ty Howard (Weatherford, Texas) and Mike Himmelsbach (Quakertown, Pa.) was in an exceptionally familiar spot atop the podium in the SunTrust MOTO-ST Series. The team claimed its third victory of the year in the Thunderbolt 500k at New Jersey Motorsports Park, the sixth round of the seven-race series. The winners completed 119 laps of the 2.25-mile circuit in three hours, 46.211 seconds.
Aprilia USA/Lloyd Brothers Motorsports claimed their third “Destination Daytona Pole Award” in qualifying for the Thunderbolt 500k, round six of the SunTrust MOTO-ST Series, at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, N.J. Ty Howard of Weatherford, Tex. turned the session’s best time of one minute, 27.372 seconds on the No. 1 Aprilia Tuono 1000R (92.707 mph) on his fifth lap. Howard will share the machine with Mike Himmelsbach of Quakertown, Pa.