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ROUND 2 / APRIL 22-24, 2022 ROAD ATLANTA / BRASELTON, GEORGIA P94 ROAD RACE I MOTOAMERICA / FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP nous pace up front, finishing some 14 seconds clear of team- mate Cameron Petersen, who rebounded from three weekend crashes to score his best result of the season to date. To make things even better for Gagne, the two riders at the top of the point standings both failed to finish. Petrucci's Ducati Pani- gale V4 R blew up on the open- ing lap of the second restart and Westby Racing's Mathew Scholtz crashed, remounted, pitted, and finally gave up on the 11th lap. Third went to an ecstatic Kyle Wyman on the Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW after he got the better of Barbera and Escalante Hector Barbera's (Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW) form continued to improve at Road Atlanta, taking fourth in race one ahead of Lewis' teammate Richie Escalante and single-round teammate Kyle Wyman, who filled in for the Covid 19-striken PJ Jacobsen. Gagne woke on Sunday morning ready for battle in race two. The Colorado resident had incredibly not won a race yet in 2022 after triumphing 17 times last year, but he put that right with a dominant display to take a restarted race two, following Jer- emy Coffey's crash that bought out the red flag early on. Gagne drilled out a monoto- MYOWNRACE 85 JAKE LEWIS SUPERBIKE 3-DNF Vision Wheel M4 Ecstar Suzuki Superbike pilot Jake Lewis scored his first premier- class podium in four seasons. "It's always nice to be up here," he said. "It's been since 2018 that I was last on a Superbike podium. We're ge ng back up to speed with the pace of these guys. I'm ge ng more comfortable on the bike—this bike is a lot different than the stock bike I rode last year. I had a decent pace, and I just kept pushing and pushing and managing the board." Danilo Petrucci took race one but DNF'd race two with a mechanical.