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championship points that come with
it—points that may prove valuable at
season's end.
Vision Wheel M4 Ecstar Suzuki's
Jake Lewis and Richie Escalante
were next, the pair separated by
some 13 seconds with Lewis sixth
and Escalante seventh.
Tytlers Cycle/RideHVMC Racing's
Corey Alexander was eighth with
Tytlers Cycle Racing's Larry Pegram
ninth, in his return to MotoAmerica
Superbike racing, and Aftercare
Hayes Scheibe Racing's Ashton
Yates rounding out the top 10.
With seven races in the books,
Scholtz leads Petrucci, 125-124 with
Gagne third with 102 points. Barbera
moves into fourth with 79 points,
one point more than Gagne's team-
mate Cameron Petersen, the South
African out of the race on lap five
with a mechanical failure.
"I kind of thought after corner
five, I had a decent gap that
he [Petrucci] wouldn't be close
enough to me," said Scholtz,
"but he obviously had a really
good couple corners after that
and caught up to me. I didn't
realize in the final corner he was
going to try to pass me. I kind
of heard him turning in and out
of the corner of my eye, I saw
his front tire. I actually had to
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the race, but then again, I didn't want to
overcook the res, but we did anyway. I
was searching a lot for the water on the
straightaways...to try to cool the res...my
plan didn't really work. It was a really good
race. It was fun. It was pre y crazy."
9 DANILO PETRUCCI
2-3 SUPERBIKE
"I felt really a lot of spinning," said Danilo
Petrucci of Sunday's race. "I tried to go
as free as possible with the electronics
setup, maximum torque, less trac on
control, but my re was completely with
no rubber. I don't know if maybe I was
too aggressive in the warmup lap. I don't
know. I tried to manage as much as pos-
sible. Tried to brake as hard as possible.
But Cameron and PJ for sure were be er
than me in accelera on and they can stop
the bike. They were actually riding really,
really good. I tried to stay with them, but
it was risky to brake harder and harder
and harder. Last lap I even didn't try with
PJ because it was too far and too risky."
Cameron Petersen
(45) was sure-footed
in slippery conditions
in Sunday's Superbike
race. PJ Jacobsen
(66) and Danilo
Petrucci (9) went 2-3.
Tyler Scott (70) nabbed
his first career Supersport
win on Saturday. Josh
Herrin (2) was second.
