VOL. 50 ISSUE 25 JUNE 25, 2013
P73
The big three
in Saturday's
Daytona
SportBike
race: Cameron
Beaubier (6)
leads Jake Gagne
(32) and Jason
DiSalvo (40).
Beaubier (6)
and Gagne (32)
finished first and
second in both
races.
In both Saturday and Sunday's
races Beaubier kept it interesting for the first half of the races
and then, with relentless perfection, simply turned lap times on
his Yamaha Extended Service/
Monster energy/Graves Yamaha
R6 late in the race that the rest of
the field, including his chief rival
Gagne, could not match.
Beaubier's pair of convincing
wins at Barber means that the
Roseville, California, rider has
now won four of the five races
thus far, finished second in the
one race he didn't win, and has
moved out to a commanding
28-point lead after five rounds of
the 14-race series.
The championship is only a
third of the way through, so it's
not over by a long shot, but already people are saying that this
year's title is Beaubier's to lose.
Well, okay, they've actually been
saying that before the season
even started.
The 2013 Daytona SportBike
season has been primarily a twoman show (with the exception
of Garrett Gerloff getting in the
mix at Daytona), so it was a nice
change of pace to see DiSalvo
get his Latus Motors Racing Triumph in the hunt in Saturday's
race. DiSalvo led early Saturday,
but said he was forced to run his
Triumph Daytona 675 extremely
deep into the turns to do it.
