ROAD RACE
FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 9 / SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
NEW JERSEY MOTORSPORTS PARK / MILLVILLE, NEW JERSEY
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Stock 1000
Last year's Stock 1000 Cham-
pion Andrew Lee successfully de-
fended his title when he clinched
the 2019 Stock 1000 Champion-
ship after winning Sunday's race.
Lee, aboard his Franklin Ar-
mory/Graves Kawasaki, started
from the pole, but then the race
was red-flagged and had to be
restarted. Despite the drama,
Lee stayed in front and kept his
closest title rival Stefano Mesa
(Mesa37 Racing Kawasaki)
behind him. Corey Alexander
(Ride HVMC Freeman Racing Ka-
wasaki) gave Lee everything he
could handle, and Lee crossed
the finish line a scant 0.145 of a
second ahead of Alexander in
second. Mesa finished third for a
Kawasaki podium sweep.
Dominic [Doyle] and Damian [Ji-
galov], I think it was. Then me and
Jackson just rode together. Then,
on the last lap, I saw Kevin went by
me and then highsided, and I was
like, 'That sucks.' Then I just tried to
get the draft and see what I could
do with that, and I pulled it off and
got the championship."
Eziah Davis (Hunter Dunham
Racing) ended up finishing third,
making it an all-Kawasaki podium.
Landers celebrated the cham-
pionship with another win, his
12th of the season, on Sunday
this time by more than seven sec-
onds over Damian Jigalov (Quar-
terly Racing/On Track Develop-
ment Kawasaki). Third place went
to Kevin Olmedo (Altus Motors-
ports Kawasaki) for a Kawasaki
Team Green podium sweep.
Junior Cup
Rocco Landers (Ninja400R.
com/Norton Motorsports/Dr.
Farr Kawasaki) clinched the Liqui
Moly Junior Cup Championship
on Saturday after edging out
Jackson Blackmon (Monkey-
Moto/AGVSport/Blud Lubricants
Kawasaki) for the win. It was
Landers' 11th win of the season,
which is the most wins accumu-
lated in one season for any Junior
Cup rider in MotoAmerica history.
"In the beginning [of the race],
I was just trying to get a good first
lap and try to see if I could get
away, and I couldn't," Landers said.
"I looked back and Jackson was
there. He got by me. I was like,
'So what's going to happen?' Then
I looked back, and I had a few
seconds on [Kevin] Olmedo and
With still one race on
the schedule, Andrew
Lee successfully
defended his number-
one plate by winning
the Stock 1000 class.
