CHAMPIONSHIP
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of a gap on me, but after about lap 10 or so, I think
he made a little bit of a mistake. The front seemed
like it got better. The last five laps, I felt like it was a
whole new bike. I was able to get by him on the front
straightaway, and I tried to put my head down the last
three laps or so. I did my fastest lap on the last lap.
I'm really looking forward to the next round."
Third place went to Ortt for his second podium
of the year, followed by Prince and McFadden.
In the title race, Beach sits pretty with 215 points
over Gillim's 133. West is at 95, McFadden has 94
and Ortt has 87.
Frenchman Debise would return for Sunday's
race two action and run Beach hard, but the
pint-sized Kentucky resident never faltered for win
number seven of the season.
"It was a really good race," Beach said. "Val
(Debise) was riding really good. He's super-fast.
Me and him kind of got a gap to third, to Hayden
(Gillim). Then Hayden wasn't able to bring the gap
back. I thought we were going to have a three-
rider battle until he went down.
"After about lap five or so, I started struggling
with the front tire a lot. Val was able to get a little bit
