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If Cameron Beaubier wins his first MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North America Superbike Championship at New Jersey Motorsports Park in September, he will likely look back to his doubleheader sweep of the two races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the turning point.

Beaubier came into the penultimate round of the MotoAmerica Championship at the Brickyard tied with his Monster Energy Graves Yamaha teammate Josh Hayes for the championship points lead. With his two wins at Indy, he leaves with an 18-point lead with just two races remaining.

And it’s an 18-point lead because Roger Hayden and his Yoshimura Suzuki hounded Beaubier in the pair of races, coming up just short in both, but taking away points from Hayes. So now, based on how these three have dominated the season thus far, the scenario for New Jersey is an interesting one.

If Hayes wins both races and Beaubier finishes second in both, Beaubier will take his first career Superbike title by eight points. If Hayes wins both and Beaubier slips to third in both, the pair will end the series in a tie. And the championship will go to Hayes because he would end the season with 10 race wins to Beaubier’s eight.

Beaubier ended up beating Hayden by 0.015s of a second in Sunday’s Superbike race – a race that was red flagged with a lap to go because of rain and wet conditions. When the running order was reverted back a lap, Beaubier was ahead. Hayes was also in the battle today after not being a factor on Saturday. He was 0.297s behind at the finish.

Fourth place in today’s Superbike race went to Hayden’s Yoshimura Suzuki teammate Jake Lewis, the 18-year-old Kentuckian besting Roadrace Factory’s Jake Gagne by some four seconds. Gagne, however, was the best of the Superstock 1000s and earned his 10th victory of the season.

Beaubier won his seventh MotoAmerica Superbike race of the season on Saturday afternoon at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, engaged a race-long battle with Yoshimura Suzuki’s Hayden, the Kentuckian coming up just 0.040s short at the finish line.

Hayes, meanwhile, was never a factor in this one as he battled to the finish just to earn the final podium spot, besting Lewis by 0.087s as the pair crossed the famous yard of bricks.

A champion was also crowned at the Brickyard on Saturday with Yamalube/Y.E.S./Graves Motorsports Yamaha’s JD Beach clinching the 2015 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM Supersport Championship with a third-place finish in the red-flag interrupted final.

With his nearest rival Josh Herrin crashing out of the battle for victory on the first lap after the re-start, Beach didn’t have to do much to earn the crown. But he still finished third behind his teammate Garrett Gerloff and the Latus Motors Racing Triumph of Bobby Fong, with those two battling to the bitter end. At the finish it was Gerloff taking his second win of the season and his first since May by 0.036s of a second over Fong.

With just the two races at New Jersey Motorsports Park remaining, Beach has an insurmountable 57-point lead over Gerloff, who moved ahead of the non-scoring Herrin by five points with his victory on Sunday at Indy.

2015 MotoAmerica Championship
Round eight – Indianapolis, USA

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

Superbike race two results:
1. Cameron Beaubier
2. Roger Hayden
3. Josh Hayes
4. Jake Lewis
5. Chris Ulrich
6. Elena Myers

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