ROUNDS 4-5/JUNE 22-23, 2013
BARBER MOTORSPORTS PARK/LEEDS, ALABAMA
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"I was really having to charge
the corners to make up the most
time there," DiSalvo said. "But
it was a tenuous balancing act
throughout every lap, every corner because you have to figure if
you charge too hard you're going
to lose the drive out and that's going to amplify the disparity down
the straights. So that was kind of
my plan, make hay when I was
going into the corners and try to
limit the damage coming out."
But the damage was done
soon enough, however, when
Gagne took over the lead on
the RoadRace Factory Yamaha.
He held it for a short time before Beaubier came to the fore.
Gagne and DiSalvo stayed close
for about half the race before
Beaubier found that little extra to
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open a fissure.
At the checkered flag it was
Beaubier over Gagne by 5.185
seconds with DiSalvo another
four-and-half seconds behind
Gagne.
"We had a really good setup
today," said Beaubier, who swept
last year's DSB races at Barber
as well. "We worked a lot on
setup. My bike was super comfortable all race. I went with the
soft [tire compound] and tried to
conserve it a little bit at the beginning. With about 10 laps to go I
started pushing pretty hard and
tried to make a little gap to make
it easier on myself in the last couple of laps because I know both
these guys are really good riders
in the last couple of laps."
Sunday's race had a slightly
James Rispoli (43) leads Garrett
Gerloff (8), Dane Westby (5) and JD
Beach (95) in Saturday's race.
different dynamic. This time
Beaubier took the lead on the
second lap from fast-starting
DiSalvo and within a couple of
laps already had a .6 of a second lead. But then Gagne moved
up and turned in a series of
laps faster than the leader and
pulled right up to Beaubier. Even
though he closed the gap relatively quickly, once on Beaubier's
rear tire Gagne showed no threat
of passing. It was hard to tell if he
was biding his time for a late-race
charge, or simply couldn't go
any faster and therefore couldn't
pass for the lead. Turns out it was
the latter.
