ROUND 5 / JUNE 24-26, 2022
THE RIDGE MOTORSPORTS PARK / SHELTON, WASHINGTON
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ROAD RACE I MOTOAMERICA / FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP
in turn one just after Jake Lewis
(Vision Wheel M4 Ecstar Suzuki)
hit the deck on the final corner.
Fourth in race one went
to Westby Racing's Mathew
Scholtz. The South African had
his hands full with Tytlers Cycle
Racing's Hector Barbera as the
Spaniard continued his impres-
sive run of 2022 season form in
fifth.
He was never headed in any
qualifying or practice session,
either, meaning it was complete
and utter Gagne domination for
the first time in 2022.
Race one saw Gagne lead
home teammate Cameron Pe-
tersen as the South African took
his fifth podium of the season
ahead of Petrucci, who was able
to take the restart after crashing
MYOWNRACE
1 JAKE GAGE
1-1 SUPERBIKE
"It was a good weekend. I've always liked
this track. It's really technical, lots of ups
and downs," Gagne said. "We've had a
lot of great weekends, but this is one of
those tracks that really suits the Yamaha,
for sure. A er yesterday and all those
red flags, it was kind of crazy, got off to a
bunch of good starts. Today, everybody
stepped it up and had a li le more pace
than yesterday. So, I knew if I could lead
into turn one, I had to push as hard as
I could for four or five laps and see if I
could have a gap or not. Luckily, I was able
to have some clean laps and kind of get
a gap. It was a fun race. Kind of flew by
pre y quick. We keep making progress.
We know we've got to because these guys
are making progress every weekend as
well."
2 JOSH HERRIN
1-1 SUPERSPORT
"Two wins this weekend, so I'm super
happy with how everything went," Herrin
said. "We had a feeling that the Duca
Panigale V2 would work well around this
track, and we were right—it has been near
perfect all weekend. The only me we
struggled was in qualifying as we couldn't
PJ Jacobsen leads Ashton Yates
and the freight train in race two.
