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just over a second ahead of National
Guard/Celtic Racing's James Rispoli.
The Triumphs of Bobby Fong and
Joey Pascarella rounded out the top
10.
With his seventh win in eight races, Beaubier leads the series standings by 56 points, 247-191. Beach is
third with 154 points, five better than
Gerloff. Rispoli rounds out the top
five with 114 points.
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Daytona Sportbike
1. Cameron Beaubier (Yamaha)
2. Garrett Gerloff (Yamaha)
3. Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
4. Jason DiSalvo (Triumph)
5. JD Beach (Yamaha)
6. Jake Lewis (Yamaha)
7. Dane Westby (Honda)
8. James Rispoli (Suzuki)
9. Bobby Fong (Triumph)
10.Joey Pascarella (Triumph)
JD Beach leads Jason DiSalvo and Jake
Lewis in the battle for fourth place.
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little too deep into two and tucked
the front."
With the AMA providing the sideshow for the MotoGP weekend,
the grid for all three AMA races
featured the same three-riderper-row arrangement as MotoGP
uses at each of its races. Josh
Hayes liked the three-across grid.
"I think it's more of an advantage
for pole," Hayes said. "I think it's
safer and I think qualifying plays a
bigger role in the race with a little
bit of an advantage. Mid-Ohio was
a nightmare and I don't think a
pole sitter got a holeshot all weekend. It's just in the wrong place on
the racetrack, but if you had that
gap maybe it would change things
a bit. And I think it also makes the
grid seem a little more full when
we're having small grids like we
are right now. Maybe it's something we should consider. I think
there are benefits for it and I'd prefer it myself."
In winning his sixth race of the
season, Hayes now has 39 ca-
reer AMA Superbike wins. "It's
not how I expected the race would
play out, but I'm glad," Hayes said.
"My idea of the race was that it
would be more like Ohio where
the guys were there for half the
race and maybe in the second
half I would have a little more pace
than them. The race actually came
to me better than any session all
weekend and things clicked well.
The lap times came pretty easy
and I didn't make many mistakes
and it was a really smooth race for
me. I'm glad it came together for
me in the race. I feel like I've been
working hard all weekend and in
the race it happened a little more
naturally I felt like."
With the AMA races not having
a TV deal in place to air the Laguna Seca round, as most in the
paddock figured, it turned out to
be much ado about nothing as
negotiations with Dorna on Thursday and Friday led to a TV feed
on Sunday so the action could be
captured for airing at a later date
on the CBS Sports Network.
The AMA paddock drew a collective breath of relief on Sunday morning when it learned that
Travis Ohge's condition had
improved overnight at the Santa
Clara Medical Center in San Jose,
California. Ohge crashed out of
the Supersport final on Saturday
on the eighth lap in turn six and
and suffered head injuries. He
was treated trackside for several
minutes before being transported
to San Jose via helicopter. According to AMA officials, Ohge's
outlook for recovery is "positive."
