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VOLUME 59 ISSUE 31 AUGUST 2, 2022 P69 that resulted in a 5.338 margin of victory in what was the 25th AMA Superbike win of his career. Next best was his teammate Cameron Petersen, the South African battling with Petrucci, who said he thought something was wrong with his rear suspen- sion, for much of the race. With just a few laps to go, however, Petrucci hit a false neutral and ran off track, handing second place to Petersen. By the time Petrucci got back on the black stuff, he'd lost any hope of second place, and was some six seconds behind Petersen. Still, the former MotoGP star ended up on the podium in third, his 11th podium in 13 races as he continues a season of consistent podium finishes. Petrucci ended up 9.3 sec- onds ahead of Westby Racing's Mathew Scholtz, the South African riding with an injured left wrist after a big crash in Q2 on Saturday morning. Scholtz was in survival mode from the get-go and did well to finish fourth. Fifth went to Tytlers Cycle Rac- ing's PJ Jacobsen just a second ahead of Disrupt Racing's Hayden Gillim, with Gillim having his best Superbike finish of the season. Aftercare Hayes Scheibe Rac- ing's Ashton Yates was seventh, three seconds behind Gillim and four seconds ahead of Tytlers Cycle/RideHVMC Racing's Co- rey Alexander. Vision Wheel M4 Ecstar Su- zuki's Jake Lewis returned to ac- tion after thumb surgery to finish couple of days for the Italian, who crashed during qualifying on Sat- urday and had to deal with a pos- sible broken finger and a knee he could barely bend the rest of the weekend. He dealt with suspen- sion issues and survived numer- ous near get-offs both days and was noticeably worked at the end of the weekend. In race one, Gagne led from pole position, quickly gapped his pursuers, and maintained a lead MYOWNRACE him again. I tried to push, but same mistake as yesterday. Hit the neutral on the penul mate corner and then Jake made a gap. Then I start to push. I said, 'I have nothing to lose. I'm behind him in the championship, behind him in this race. So, I need to try.' The moment I said, 'Okay, he went away again,' unfortunate- ly, he crashed. I'm sorry for him. I hope he is okay. I must be true: Jake in this moment is a bit faster than us, but on the pace, I think he was a bit of tenths faster. Then we made a massive change on the bike from yesterday, and we didn't have the chance to try this morning. I have nothing to lose at this point. I never look at the points. I know Jake is faster, but I need to stay in front of him." 45 CAMERON PETERSEN 2-2 SUPERBIKE "Yeah, it was a tough one today," Cam- eron Petersen a er day two. "It was for sure be er in those first couple laps. I felt like both mine and Danilo's pace was a li le bit be er those first few laps. But I just didn't have the same feel. I think on average I was almost a second a lap slower. A er the res went off, I think I was on average close to a second a lap slower than what I was doing yesterday. So, just a big struggle today. I hit a couple false neutrals going into turn nine, which kind of hurt me. Then I just started riding ght and just wasn't riding like I was yesterday. So, pre y upset with the way I rode today." (Above) Jake Gagne (1) had the double seemingly in the bag until a solo crash while leading far into race two. He's now the chaser again in the championship. (Left) Cameron Petersen (45) had a solid weekend by finishing second in both Superbike races.