Michelle Lindsay died from complications of pancreatic cancer today at Inova Fairfax Hospital, in Fairfax, Virginia. She was 45.
Lindsay was drawn into motorcycle road racing originally when her late fiancé Jon Couch started TOBC Racing about 15 years ago. During Couch’s tenure at the helm, TOBC Racing won the 2014 AMA Pro Supersport Championship with Hayden Gillim.
On September 19, 2014, Couch and his mother Dr. Frances Gene Couch, were both killed when the plane Jon Couch was piloting crashed at VIRginia International Raceway.B
y this time, Lindsay had also fallen in love with motorcycle road racing and its community, and through an extraordinary effort and her seemingly endless energy, she kept TOBC Racing going and taking it to new heights.
Under Lindsay’s leadership, TOBC Racing won the Daytona 200 four times using three different brands of motorcycles (Suzuki, Triumph, and Yamaha) and two different riders (Danny Eslick and Brandon Paasch). TOBC also finished second in the 2015 Moto America Stock 1000 Championship with rider Taylor Knapp.
In April 2019, Lindsay married Myles Wilson, who also became an active member of TOBC Racing.
