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  • Beaubier Sweeps Superbike at Road America

    Beaubier Sweeps Superbike at Road America

    Monster Energy/Graves Yamaha rider Cameron Beaubier controlled the MotoAmerica Honda Superbike Showdown at Road America on Sunday, taking the win in both Superbike 1000 races.

    Race One was the tamer of the two, with Beaubier establishing a comfortable lead over Yoshimura Suzuki’s Roger Hayden and keeping a few bike lengths between them until crossing the finish line.

    Race Two provided more drama, as Beaubier swapped the lead with teammate Josh Hayes several times before Yoshimura Suzuki’s Toni Elias joined the mix, managing to take the second spot from Hayes and build a gap between them. On the final lap Elias made a desperate lunge at Beaubier entering Turn 5, but the reigning champion executed an effective crossover and regained the inside position from the late-braking Spaniard.

    Beaubier’s perfect weekend (his fifth and sixth wins of the season) puts him in the championship points lead by seven points over teammate Hayes.

    Running on track at the same time as the Superbikes was the Superstock 1000 class. Former Superbike champion Josh Herrin piloted his Wheels in Motion/Meen Motorsports Yamaha to the win in both races, taking fifth overall and edging out Aprilia HSBK Racing’s Claudio Corti in both events.

    In the Supersport 600 class, Y.E.S./Graves Yamaha’s Garrett Gerloff won a wet Race One over his teammate and defending Supersport champion J.D. Beach. In Race Two, Frenchman Valentin Debise took his first Supersport victory in dramatic fashion, losing the lead and then retaking it at the end of the final lap.

  • Elias and Yoshimura Best the Americans at COTA

    Elias and Yoshimura Best the Americans at COTA

    Spaniard Toni Elias captured the win in Superbike Race One at Circuit of the Americas on Saturday. The former Moto2 World Champion and MotoGP race winner filled in for Yoshimura Suzuki’s injured rider Jake Lewis, and the win was in his first ever MotoAmerica race.

    Yoshimura teammate Roger Hayden dominated the early laps of Race One after grabbing the lead from the pole. Hayden only temporarily lost the lead to Monser Energy/Graves Yamaha’s Cameron Beaubier before the defending champion crashed out on the second lap.

    Hayden proceeded to take the lead and steadily increase it, building a gap of over two seconds to second place.

    Trouble struck for Hayden when Kyle Wyman blew his engine and spread oil across the track, bringing out the red flag as his bike erupted in flames. Oil cleanup caused a lengthy stoppage, and race officials decided to restart the race with five laps remaining.

    The second part of the race saw Hayden’s dominance put to the test, as his tire grip problems created a heated three-way battle for the lead with Elias and Monster Energy/Graves Yamaha’s Josh Hayes.

    Elias took the lead and Hayden pushed, but was faced with pressure from Hayes for second. Elias gained some breathing room and eased through the final portion of the last lap, while Hayden faced one final charge from Hayes in the last turn, but denied him the spot, completing a one-two sweep for Yoshimura Suzuki.

    Broaster Chicken/Roadrace Factory’s Jake Gagne took fourth, and Latus Motors Racing’s Bobby Fong finished fifth overall, winning the Superstock 1000 class on his Kawasaki ZX-10R.

    Texas native Garrett Gerloff won the Supersport race after he and Y.E.S./Graves Yamaha teammate J.D. Beach pulled away from the field early in the race.