AMERICAN RACING TEAM'S CAMERON BEAUBIER
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INTERVIEW
F I N D I N G
H I S
F E E T
BY NEIL MORRISON
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
P
ut yourself in Cameron Beau-
bier's shoes. Having enjoyed
a spell of near total success
in America's national championship
for six years, you pack up and move
to a new series (and continent) at
the age of 28.
In the space of two months and
a handful of preseason tests, you
have a new bike and a prototype
chassis to learn, a new team to
meet. There's the small matter of a
series of new tracks to learn and re-
learn. And there are 29 riders, who
grew up racing these circuits, many
of them on these bikes, to gauge.
What's more, they often give the
impression they'd rather punch you
in the face over learning your name.
And that's before we add that
the watching world is forever sizing
you up, with the reputation of your
national championship resting on
your results. The list of riders to have
been chewed up and spat out by
Moto2 includes ex-world champions
and riders with great national pedi-
gree. Sound intimidating? Well, three
races into 2021 (at the time of this
interview) and it would be fair to say
Beaubier has long been comfortable
with these challenges.
Cameron Beaubier was always
the baby-faced assassin in
MotoAmerica but now he's in
the piranha pit of Moto2, he's
fighting with the best.
