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VOL. 50 ISSUE 28 JULY 16, 2013 oblem the second half of a race and he found a way to gap Gagne and win by 4.469 seconds at the end. "I got a pretty bad start," Beaubier admitted. "My jump wasn't too bad, but I wasn't very aggressive in the first corner and Dane [Westby] passed me on the corner going onto the back straight and I got shuffled back to fifth or sixth or something like that. And then I slowly started making my Cameron Beaubier (6) was again the dominant rider in the Daytona SportBike class. The championship points leader battled with Jake Gagne (32) on Saturday before taking the victory. way through and me and Jake [Gagne] had a good battle until the end when I pushed it on the last couple of laps." Beaubier's riding has been described as nearly flawless. He said he was far from that on Saturday. "I made a few mistakes today. I pushed the front a couple of times and almost high-sided coming out of [turn] one. Everyone funneled into turn one and I was kind of on the inside and didn't have a good line." In addition, Beaubier admitted to missing a shift going onto the back straightaway, which led to Gagne getting past him. So the takeaway for the other riders in Daytona SportBike from Saturday's race might have been that Beaubier is not a road-racing robot. He's human after all. But mistakes and all, he still won quite easily. By the end of the race Gagne was alone in second, as was JD Beach who rounded out the podium in third. Jake Lewis and Garrett Gerloff had a good battle for fourth, but it was won by former AMA Horizon Award winner Lewis. Front-row qualifier Jason DiSalvo pulled into the pits after four laps. Sunday's race was the best P89 Briefly... From Stefano Mesa's point of view, the tight pass Alexander threw on him was a bit too aggressive. "I think he had the space to pass me cleanly, but he decided to make me go off the track," Mesa claimed. "It's racing, but we're going to go to Laguna a little more aggressive and we'll see what happens. That [pass] was very big. I crashed yesterday and got no points and today he [Alexander] got me by a few more points, but we can still win the championship and we're going to go for it." Yamaha won every race it entered at Mid-Ohio - Superbike, Daytona SportBike and Supersport. That's the first time a single manufacturer won every race it entered in the 31year history of AMA Pro road racing at Mid-Ohio. Supersport has been the most competitive class in the road race series this year. Hayden Gillim was the fifth winner in eight races. Stefano Mesa, Tomas Puerta, Corey Alexander, Joe Roberts and Gillim are the riders who have won in the series so far this year. Puerta, Alexander and Roberts have each won two rounds. Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson Series rider Steve Rapp saw the smoke from the recent crash-landing of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco. Rapp was piloting a charter into a nearby airport just after the San Francisco incident happened. "The company I fly for is a charter company called Surf Air and we fly into a small airport four or five miles south of SFO and the day continued on next page