This photo from a tardy press release issued by Mike Summers shows Aaron Yates (right) joining fellow racers (from left) Shaun Summers, Chris Peris and Steve Rapp visiting a young patient in the University of California Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Sacramento, California, the week before the AMA National at Infineon Raceway.

That night Yates appeared with the others at a Sport Bike Night organized by Mike Summers at the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Sacramento.

Yates, himself a father of two young children, said after the hospital visit “this makes you appreciate what you have when your kids are healthy”.