News 15 May 2017

Hayden and Hayes split MotoAmerica wins in Virgina

Elias continues to lead points despite crashing out of race one.

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Roger Hayden emerged victorious from a drama-filled Motul Superbike race on Saturday, the Yoshimura Suzuki rider taking his fifth-career Superbike win and his first at Virginia International Raceway during the opening day of the MotoAmerica championship.

Hayden held off Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory’s Cameron Beaubier by a scant 0.485s, the two-time champion fighting his way through from dead last after an off-track excursion early in the race, as Bobby Fong (Quicksilver Latus Motors Kawasaki) was third.

On Sunday, Josh Hayes won his 61st Superbike race, the 41-year-old taking his first Motul Superbike win of the season with 4.4s in hand over Yoshimura Suzuki’s Toni Elias, the Spaniard spending the majority of his race battling teammate Hayden until the latter ran off the track on the last lap.

Beaubier was upset with himself after the race for making the crucial error in turn one for a second successive day, but did climb back up the order to complete the podium in third position. Elias, who failed to score points on Saturday after crashing, still leads the championship points chase with 115 points, 10 more than Beaubier and 11 more than Hayden.

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