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Cycle News 2019 Issue 50 December 17

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VOLUME 56 ISSUE 50 DECEMBER 17, 2019 P141 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."

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