INTERVIEW I 2021 MOTOAMERIC A SUPERBIKE CHAMPION JAKE G AGNE
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season, and also shatter the
winning-streak record? No.
Gagne's 16-consecutive
victories (17 total) easily eclipsed
the previous record of 11-straight
wins set jointly by four-time
MotoAmerica/AMA Superbike
Champion Josh Hayes and five-
time champ Cameron Beaubier.
And he did it with the help of two
Canadians, one of whom was
forced to work remotely during
most of the season.
We caught up with Gagne by
phone from his Colorado home
just a couple of days after he'd
been testing new Dunlop tires
at Buttonwillow Raceway and a
few days before he was going
into surgery to have hardware
[plates and screws] removed
from his right leg that was in-
stalled after a motocross crash
in 2018.
How did the tire test go?
It was good. It was some-
thing Dunlop put together. They
wanted to test some new com-
pounds and new profiles. We
tested maybe four or five new
tires. It's cool that Dunlop is still
working so hard to give us better
tires. I'm not sure what we'll be
Gagne rates his Laguna Seca
performance as the best of his
season in a year of highlights.
