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IIIMY OWN RACE:
that happened, I just tried to kind of
se le down. My gap started going down
and Ma y (Scholtz) started catching me
a li le bit. I just kept trucking along and
brought it home."
54 RICHIE ESCALANTE
1-1 SUPERSPORT
"Very fun race again," Richie Escalante
said. "My start, again, was so bad and
then I needed to take recovery very fast.
I looked this morning and Sean (Dylan
Kelly) improved in the morning warmup
and I said, 'Maybe the race is more dif-
ficult to stay with him in the first laps.' I
know Sean is very strong in the first laps.
I tried to pass very quickly and then tried
to go. Sean is braking really good today.
Then I passed and I pushed hard, and I see
in my bike 26 (a 1:26 lap me). It's really
good. Thanks to my team."
45 CAMERON PETERSEN
1-1 STOCK 1000
"My dad is here this weekend, and he
came up to me yesterday and said that
was probably the best he's ever seen me
ride," Cameron Petersen said. "So, that
means something to me. Just another
great weekend. The race I had here last
year was kind of the same. I came here
and for whatever reason I just ride well
on this track. When the team puts a
machine like that underneath you each
weekend, it's fun."
Mathew Scholtz in race one, with Scholtz improving to second in
race two from M4 Ecstar Suzuki's Bobby Fong.
The result means Beaubier now stands a giant 103 points clear of
Gagne in the series, with Scholtz one point behind Gagne in third.
The next round is in the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway,
where, barring some kind of monumental mishap, Beaubier will add
the 2020 MotoAmerica Superbike title to the ones he's already won
in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019.
Elias cared a pair of
fourth-place finishes at
Barber. He's clearly turned
a corner with the Suzuki
setup, but it's too little, too
late for a title challenge.
