Image: Brian J Nelson (MotoAmerica).

Monster Energy/Graves Yamaha’s Cameron Beaubier had a perfect day in imperfect conditions at Road Atlanta, the Californian having it all his way in the Honda Superbike Challenge of Road Atlanta on a day when his main rivals in the championship faltered.

Beaubier topped his teammate Josh Hayes by 4.699 seconds in the first of two wet races on a day of horrible weather in Georgia.

Then he and the rest of the racers had to endure a lengthy wait as the MotoAmerica and Road Atlanta crews were forced to wait out a storm before getting the flooded track race-ready again for what turned out to be a race time of close to 5:00pm.

In race two it was Beaubier again taking victory as he watched both of the men considered to be his fiercest competition for this year’s title – Hayes and Yoshimura Suzuki’s Roger Hayden (with his second race fall of the day) – crash out of the race.

With those two out, it left Beaubier to move past fast starter Jake Lewis, on the second Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000, to take victory by 3.789 seconds. Lewis ended up second, pairing that with his first-race third, and giving the 19-year-old Kentuckian the first two podiums of his Superbike career in just his third and fourth Superbike races.

With Lewis finishing third behind the two factory Yamahas in race one, fourth went to Yamaha Blumaz’s Bernat Martinez with the Spaniard bettering his fourth in race one by one spot to earn the first AMA Superbike podium of his career in race two.

But this day was all about Beaubier who earned the fifth and sixth Superbike race wins of his young career.

“I struggled a lot in the wet in the few outings we had last year,” Beaubier said after sweeping the double-header for the first time in what is his sophomore season of Superbike racing. “To get two wins in the wet, sketchy conditions today was good for my confidence.

“In the first race Josh and Roger were riding really good and it was a bummer to see Rog go down. I put my head down and started clicking off laps. I just kept going, kept going. I had a good feel in the wet. I didn’t want to throw it down, but I just kept clicking off laps.

“I was pretty timid in race two in turn one. I didn’t know if there was any standing water or not and then Jake got me. Jake was riding awesome and I saw Rog out front just pounding out laps.

“I was like, ‘Oh, man, he’s gone.’ I was struggling a little bit with grip. I saw Rog crash, I saw Josh [Hayes] crash. It was a bummer. I want to race those guys to the finish. I just kept trucking along.”

Beaubier leaves Georgia with a 30-point lead over Hayes in the title chase after the first two rounds, 95-65. Lewis is third with 60 points and Martinez is fourth with 51. Elena Myers, by virtue of her two sixth-place finishes today, is fifth in the title chase with 38 points.

The Superstock 1000 class was run with the Superbikes as is the norm and those races wins were split between Yamalube/Westby Racing’s Joshua Day and RoadRace Factory’s Jake Gagne, both armed with Yamaha YZF-R1.

Day won race one in his return to US road racing and Gagne, who crashed in race one, bounced back for the win in the second race. Day’s afternoon was a mirror image of Gagne’s as he crashed out of race two after winning race one.

Tyler O’Hara ended up second in both races on the Tyler O’Hara Racing Yamaha R1 with Taylor Knapp riding the FourFour Motorsports R1 to third in both races.

The second Supersport race of the weekend featured the exact same podium as Saturday’s race, but in a different order. Yamalube/Graves Yamaha’s Garrett Gerloff dominated today’s race to become the third different Supersport winner in the three-race old season.

Gerloff beat Saturday’s winner Josh Herrin by 8.630 seconds, while Gerloff’s teammate JD Beach finished third for the second straight day on his Yamaha R6. Experienced Australian David Anthony rode his M4 Suzuki to fourth on Saturday and fifth on Sunday, now fourth in the standings.

Wheels In Motion/Meen Motorsports’ Joe Roberts won the Superstock 600 race for the second day in a row in Sunday afternoon’s final event, topping Kyle Wyman Racing’s Travis Wyman by 2.4 seconds. Wyatt Farris was third after finishing fourth in yesterday’s race.

The series resumes in four weeks at Virginia International Raceway on 15-17 May.

2015 MotoAmerica Championship
Round two – Road Atlanta

Superbike race one results:
1. Cameron Beaubier
2. Josh Hayes
3. Jake Lewis
4. Bernat Martinez
5. Chris Ulrich
6. Elena Myers

Superbike race two results:
1. Cameron Beaubier
2. Jake Lewis
3. Bernat Martinez
4. Chris Ulrich
5. Stefano Mesa
6. Elena Myers

Superbike championship standings:
1. Cameron Beaubier 95
2. Josh Hayes 65
3. Jake Lewis 60
4. Bernat Martinez 51
5. Elena Myers 38
6. Chris Ulrich 34
7. Roger Hayden 32
8. Ricky Orlando 14
9. Aaron Hersh 13
10. Stefano Mesa 11

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