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today,' and bring home a third or
something like that. That was a
big thing for me."
Looking to 2020, it's all about
to change as Yamaha is no lon-
ger the official factory-run team,
putting an end to one of the most
dominant outfits in American
Superbike history with four titles
each for Hayes and Beaubier and
one for Josh Herrin. Yamaha Mo-
tor U.S. is now putting its weight
behind the Attack Performance
squad in much the same fashion
as Yamaha Europe does with the
Pata Yamaha WorldSBK squad
(which is run by British com-
pany Cresent Performance and
headed by Paul Denning).
Beaubier will thus be racing for
Attack Performance run by Rich-
ard Stanboli out of Huntington
Beach, alongside a new team-
mate, former WorldSBK rider
and Superstock 1000 Champion
Jake Gagne, as Gerloff heads to
Europe as part of the GRT Ya-
maha squad to partner with Italian
Federico Caricasulo in World
Superbike.
"That Attack bike is freaking
good," Beaubier says with a
laugh. "Stanboli has those elec-
tronics dialed, plus some other
parts like his custom tank and
subframe. There will be some
changes within our team, but we
will always have the same goal."
That goal will be another Cycle
News interview, a byproduct of
what could be his fifth MotoAmer-
ica Superbike Championship
in six years, which, if it comes
true, is a record only bettered by
Mat Mladin, who took six titles
in seven years with his seventh
and final title coming in his last
season of 2009.
And at only 26, Beaubier has
more than enough time on his
side to stake his claim as the
greatest domestic Superbike
racer of all time. CN
"GERLOFF TOOK
CARE OF ME. HE
DIDN'T TRY TO RACE
ME OR NOTHING, SO
THAT WAS COOL."
