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in there a lot longer than what I thought. I kind of closed up to Jake and Danilo slightly, but once [Petrucci] started drop- ping off and I got caught up with him, Jake opened up. I got past [Petrucci] and tried to catch up to Jake. I had a few pretty big mo- ments spinning up, so I just had to settle for second. I thought it was going to be a pretty easy second, and then looking at the board I could see that somebody was catching me at a drastic pace. I thought it was Danilo may- be finding his groove again. Then I looked back, and I had [Pe- tersen] chasing me down. From maybe lap eight to lap 16, I was pushing as hard as I could, but maybe the last four laps or so, Cam dropped off slightly, which definitely helped me because I was under the limit there." "I got a little bit erratic," Peterson said. "I was out of the seat, running wide everywhere. Even in the last turn, I ran so wide I almost went off the track onto the curb on the out- side. I took a few laps to regroup, took a couple breaths and then just started trying to hit my marks from there. I think I got a little bit lucky because Petrucci was dropping back. So, that kind of held Matty up and gave me the chance to close in with him. Then once I had that carrot to chase him, I was able to latch onto Matty a little bit." Sixth went to Tytlers Cycle Rac- ing's Hector Barbera by 0.149 sec- onds over his teammate PJ Jacob- sen with Aftercare Hayes Scheibe Racing's Aston Yates eighth on his Petrucci faded to fourth, finish- ing some 10 seconds behind Petersen and 10 seconds ahead of fifth-placed Jake Lewis on the Vision Wheel M4 Ecstar Suzuki. "Cam [Petersen] got a great start," Gagne said of the race. "I thought he had the holeshot, but I just barely snuck up in there and won. Even from my first fly- ing lap, it was a lot slicker than I anticipated, I think for most of us guys—front, rear. First, second lap it already felt like we had 10 or 15 laps on the tire. So, right away my goal was just knock it back a couple percent and just do a pace where I couldn't make mistakes, because mistakes could happen really easily today when it's this slick and this hot. I could hear the Ducati behind me. I figured it was [Petrucci] because you can hear that thing. I figured Mat and Cam were right there, too. I just wanted to get through the first half of the race with no mistakes and then see where we end up. I had a little over a second or whatever it was around halfway. It got tougher and tougher. Those last couple laps the tires were really tearing up and it was getting hotter and hotter and hotter. It was a tougher race than I really anticipated. I think the name of the game was just to be smooth and not make mistakes, because mistakes can happen easily out there when it's this tough." Scholtz' second place was impressive. "Danilo, looking at the practices, I kind of knew that he only had a couple laps, and he would drop off, but he hung VOLUME 59 ISSUE 21 MAY 24, 2022 P71 MYOWNRACE lap two or something. I started coming through the kink, and the bike just shut off on me. I was giving it gas, giving it gas, trying to get it to go again. I was worried that the guys were going to smoke me from behind. Then, all of a sudden, it took off. Then, I made it another lap around, get into the kink, and it shuts off again. It did it a couple laps in a row, and then one lap, it did it to me coming down the li le short-chute down into seven. I ended up breaking the windscreen with my helmet. All of a sudden, I started short-shi ing into sixth going into the kink. I don't know why. I don't know what was going on. Once I kind of got it sorted out, I knew just from having to catch up in the infield that I had a li le bit of pace." 11 JODY BARRY 1-1 TWINS CUP "First race s nt, I didn't have a quick- shi er, so I completely botched the start, which caused me to get caught up around the fi h-place area," said Jody Barry of the even ul red-flagged second race. "Everybody was dra ing and out-braking each other. It was a blast. Going into turn one, James came up the inside of a couple guys, so I let him do his thing, and then next thing you know, I just got taken out by Teagg. Kind of a bummer. I was super fortunate. I hope everybody is okay from the red flag, but I was super fortunate that they threw the red flag so I could get the bike back in and the crew could get it back going. We only really got one lap in the first s nt, but as far as front-end grip goes, the track was really greasy. Front end grip was a li le different for me. Whether that had anything to do with the crash, I couldn't really say right now. But it all worked out for the best, I guess."