back-up bike. In a strange case of
deja vu in which he famously blew
up in race one at Road Atlanta in
2021 before going on to dominate
the rest of the season, Gagne
hopes he's got his bad luck out
of the way early, as he has a fairly
sizeable 34-point deficit to make
up after just two races but with
nine rounds still to race in.
"Just hats off to the team,"
Gagne said. "It wasn't an easy
ROUND 1 / APRIL 8-10, 2022
CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS / AUSTIN, TX
P98
ROAD RACE I MOTOAMERICA / FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
Petrucci hits the front in race two and begins to open the gap while Scholtz desperately tries to stay with him.
just rode how I could. I could
see those guys go back and
forth. I'm like, 'come on, let's
keep roughing these guys up,
make it interesting.' There was
one of the laps I saw Danilo start-
ed pulling away because he had
the pace. Mat was trying. Mat
had some big moments. It was
good to get out this weekend
again. Just keep on fighting."
Petrucci's race-one win by 1.7
weekend for them. After the
warmup, we did a couple of
sighting laps. The bike was run-
ning okay, but I knew the race
would be tough. Figured out
what I could to kind of roll in this.
I'm just glad I got on the podium.
It was a tough weekend. Good
to get a couple points because
these guys are going to be work-
ing. Keep the ball rolling.
"I kind of sat at my pace and
