News 6 Jun 2016

Beaubier seizes MotoAmerica points lead at Road America

Reigning champion does the double in Wisconsin.

Source: Supplied.

Source: Supplied.

Monster Energy Graves Yamaha’s Cameron Beaubier won both MotoAmerica Superbike Championship races at Road America in Wisconsin over the weekend, boosting him into the series lead.

The two wins also gives Beaubier a leg up on the competition in the Honda Superbike Showdown, a three-round series (Road America, Barber Motorsports Park and Laguna Seca) within a series that will award its winner a brand-new 2016 Honda Civic.

With his perfect 50 points, Beaubier leads the Honda Superbike Showdown, 50-33, over Roger Hayden and teammate Toni Elias, the two Yoshimura Suzuki riders leaving Wisconsin after splitting second- and fourth-place finishes.

Both of the Superbike races were thrillers from start to finish with Beaubier beating Hayden to the line by just 0.442s of a second in race one before beating Yoshimura Suzuki’s Elias by 0.684s of a second in race two. Hayes was third in both races.

The two wins were the fifth and sixth wins of the year for Beaubier and the 16th and 17th of his Superbike career. With his 16th career win, Beaubier moved into a tie with MotoAmerica president and three-time 500cc World Champion Wayne Rainey for 10th on the all-time win list. With his 17th win later in the day, Beaubier pulled even with 2006 MotoGP World Champion Nicky Hayden.

Beaubier wasn’t the only rider to come away from Road America with a clean-sweep as Wheels In Motion/Meen Motorsports’ Josh Herrin won both of the Bazzaz Superstock 1000 races while finishing fifth overall in both of the Superbike races.

Both of the Superstock 1000 races were also great battles with Herrin topping Aprilia HSBK Racing’s Claudio Corti in both and by just 0.167 of a second. South African Mathew Scholtz was third in his MotoAmerica debut in race one with Cycle World Suzuki’s Hayden Gillim filling the podium in race two. Aussie Dave Anthony was fourth in race two.

Frenchman Valentin Debise broke through with his maiden MotoAmerica victory when he won Sunday’s Supersport battle over championship points leader Garrett Gerloff by just 0.095 of a second. Debise, and his M4 SportbikeTrackGear.com Suzuki, bounced back from a mechanical failure in yesterday’s Supersport race to beat race-one winner Gerloff and the Y.E.S./Graves Yamaha.

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