ROUND 9/JULY 20, 2013
MAZDA RACEWAY LAGUNA SECA/MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA
AMA SUPERSPORT
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Joe Roberts (2)
leads Tomas
Puerta (hidden),
Jeffrey Tigert (91)
and Corey Alexander (5) in the
Supersport final at
Laguna Seca.
Joe Roberts
wins his third
AMA Supersport
race. In his third
attempt.
PERFECT JOE
BY PAUL CARRUTHERS
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN J. NELSON
J
oe Roberts showed his
impressive speed in running away to victory in the
first two Supersport races of his
young career at Barber Motorsports Park a month ago. At Mazda
Raceway Laguna Seca today the
kid showed that he's got some
racecraft as well, the 16-year-old
battling to the very last corner to
win his third successive race.
While Roberts, who competes
in the Red Bull Rookies Cup in
Europe on a full-time basis, won
the two races of his AMA debut at
Barber by 8.1 seconds and by 3.6
seconds, respectively, this one
came down to a 16-lap battle be-
