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MOTOAMERICA AMA/FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 4 / MAY 31-JUNE 2, 2019 ROAD AMERICA / ELKHART LAKE, WISCONSIN P96 Landers now leads the cham- pionship ahead of Daniels, 130 points to 109, with Olmedo third at 65. Twins Cup Draik Beauchamp (AP Motors- ports) took his first career Mo- toAmerica victory at Road Ameri- ca in the Twins category, heading home 2018 Junior Cup champion Alex Dumas (Road Racing World Suzuki) and Michael Barnes (Quarterly Racing Ducati). "I started off on the second row in sixth," Beauchamp said. "My main goal was just to get up there and be part of the fight and have something for the guys out front. I got up there, and I actually had more pace than I thought. I was like, okay, let's get up there early and just keep them behind me at that point. I ran that strategy. Kept them behind me. I was like, let's run this all the way home." Current Twins champion Chris Parrish could only finish eighth at Road America but still leads the points with 69 to Barnes' 66 with Beauchamp third at 64. CN Saturday Superbike 1. Toni Elias (Suz) 2. Cameron Beaubier (Yam) 3. Garrett Gerloff (Yam) 4. Josh Herrin (Suz) 5. Mathew Scholtz (Yam) Sunday Superbike 1. Josh Herrin (Suz) 2. Cameron Beaubier (Yam) 3. Garrett Gerloff (Yam) 4. JD Beach (Yam) 5. Mathew Scholtz (Yam) the championship now." Former series leader Michael Gilbert had a wretched time, tak- ing fifth in race one and crucially failing to finish in race two. He now slips to third at 56 points, with Mesa leading with 81 and Lee second at 74 points. Junior Cup Rocco Landers (Ninja400R. com/Norton Motorsports/Dr. Farr Kawasaki Ninja 400) came out on top of two thrilling Junior Cup races, taking each win by under one-tenth of a second—the first over Dallas Daniels (Quar- terly On Track Development Kawasaki) and the second over Kevin Olmedo (Altus Motorsports Kawasaki). "Today, I did have a plan from about two laps till the end," Land- ers said after race two. "Right af- ter they passed me, I was just go- ing to try to hang in there and see what was going to happen. Then, after I got past Dallas, I was just going to try to get as good of a run out of the last corner to get to him. It was a great race." fending champion Andrew Lee. "It's amazing to be back," May said. "I've been club racing. I've probably been racing more than you would if you were just doing MotoAmerica, racing about every two weeks. Then this year with MotoAmerica in the Stock class, I saw what MotoAmerica is do- ing, and it is in line what I do with Ameris Bank (his employer), and they like it too. I'm trying to bring an outside industry sponsor into what I love to help. I want to see this sport grow." Race two saw MESA37 Rac- ing Kawasaki's Stefano Mesa move up a spot from the second- place result that he got in Satur- day's race to grab the victory on Sunday. Franklin Armory/Graves Kawasaki's Andrew Lee finished second and Ride HVMC Free- man Racing Kawasaki rider Corey Alexander was third. "The bike and I worked very well this weekend, so we're hap- py with the progress," Mesa said. "Hopefully, we can keep going this season, since we're leading Veterans Bobby Fong (50) and Hayden Gillim (69) took a win each. Young gun Sean Dylan Kelly (40) keeps a watching brief.