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ROUND 5 / JUNE 3-5, 2022 ROAD AMERICA / ELKHART LAKE, WISCONSIN P94 ROAD RACE I MOTOAMERICA/FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP of a second ahead of his team- mate PJ Jacobsen. And what of defending Mo- toAmerica Superbike Cham- pion Jake Gagne? Gagne and Petrucci touched under braking, and both ran wide on the first lap in turn five. While Petrucci was able to get his Ducati slowed down and turned, Gagne was forced to take to the gravel trap on the outside of turn five and he tipped over. By the time Gagne got going again, he was 29th and dead last. From there Gagne and his Fresh N Lean Progressive Ya- maha YZF-R1 went on a charge through the pack to an even- tual fifth-place finish and the 11 the lead. Petrucci tried to pass in the final corner, but it didn't work and Scholtz was able to hold off the horsepower of the Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati NYC Pani- gale V4 R up the hill to the finish line—by just 0.015 seconds. The win, the fifth Superbike victory of Scholtz' career and his first in the dry, vaulted him to the top of the championship point standings by a single point over Petrucci, 125-124. Tytlers Cycle Racing's Hector Barbera was third, the Spaniard earning his first MotoAmerica podium in his second season in the series. Barbera crossed the line 8.5 seconds behind the battle for victory and just 0.055 MYOWNRACE 45 CAMERON PETERSON DNF-1 SUPERBIKE "The whole race, it was tricky," said Cameron Peterson of race two. "For sure wasn't wet enough for the rains. I think from first lap, second lap, it just took all the rubber away. The center of the re was so chewed up that every me we'd try to find the wet stuff, it was already like riding on a slick. So, it would spin up a li le bit more. Then going into that last lap, the lap before going to the white flag, I think PJ might have got me to the line. I can't really remember. I knew that there was maybe a possibility of that, so I put my head down. There were a lot of scary mo- ments. I pushed the front so many mes." 66 PJ JACOBSEN 4-2 SUPERBIKE "We had a lot of tes ng in the rain with BMW," said PJ Jacobsen. "We had, like, no dry days, so all we could do was ride two or three days in the wet. So, we did that. This race was half wet and half dry. But it was really good to be back ba ling up front again. The bike was working good. It was just really hard to manage the race. I felt super strong at the start of