ROAD RACE
MOTOAMERICA FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 10 / SEPTEMBER 21-23, 2018
BARBER MOTORSPORTS PARK / BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
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was a tiny 0.127 seconds.
In a red-flagged race one, Gil-
lim came out on top of a three-
rider battle between himself,
Beach and M4 Ecstar Suzuki's
Valentin Debise, saying, "It's re-
ally good to get a win in the dry.
It's been, like, five years."
The top five was rounded
out by Tuned Racing Yamaha's
Braeden Ortt and KWR Yamaha's
Bryce Prince.
Gillim didn't have to wait
another five years for the next
dry win, taking an ultra-close win
over beach and Debise, who
bested KWR Yamaha's Bryce
Prince for third.
"We had a really good battle,"
Gillim said. "JD made some
good passes on me, and I made
some good passes on him. On
the last lap, I had one place to
go and that was it. Unfortunately,
final MotoAmerica race of 2018,
was rounded out by Eslick,
Fong, the retiring Roger Hayden,
Geoff May (CCFOfficeSolutions.
com BMW) and Ben Young (Ben
Youong Racing BMW).
In the championship, Beaubier
emerges victorious at 390 to
Elias' 339, Herrin takes third with
289, Scholtz fourth at 239 and
Gerloff fifth at 208.
Supersport
Much like Elias in the Superbike
class, Hayden Gillim did his
double duty in the Supersport
class, taking both wins—his first
in the dry all season—to take his
personal 2018 win tally to four.
Gillim's wins came at the
expense Beach, the 2018 series
champion unable to best his
friend even though the combined
margin of victory in both races
lube/Yamaha Factory Racing),
Bobby Fong (Genuine Broaster
Chicken Honda), Cameron Pe-
tersen (Genuine Broaster Chick-
en Honda) and Kyle Wyman
(KWR Yamaha).
Race two saw a much closer
battle as Elias held strong for a
0.333-second victory over the
resurgent Beaubier from Herrin,
Scholtz and Lewis.
"Honestly, I was thinking to
open a gap, but at the end he
[Beaubier] was there doing in-
credible lap times in the last part
of the race," Elias said. "Today
was fun. It was fun because all of
us, we didn't think about any-
thing—just go push over the limit.
We show each other today was
not any jokes. Some elbows,
some hard-braking areas. It was
fun.
The top 10 in race two, the
Hayden Gillim (69)
finally got his reward
for a great season with
two dry-weather wins.
