ROUND 7 / JULY 30-31, 2022
BRAINERD INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY / BRAINERD, MINNESOTA
P68
ROAD RACE I MOTOAMERICA AMA/FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP
MYOWNRACE
1 JAKE GAGNE
1-DNF SUPERBIKE
"[This is] just a tricky place," Jake Gagne
said a er winning race one. "You can
knock it back a couple percent and just
try to use the li lest lean angle and things
like that, but it can just bite you in weird
places. I've had that experience from last
year and in tes ng. I've had some weird,
big crashes at this place in the past, so I
wanted to make sure I didn't do anything
stupid. I got a good start. Those first
couple laps are a li le tricky. I didn't have
any big, big moments, but from my seat
I knew the rear wasn't hooking up like it
had in prac ce, so you just had to ride the
re a li le bit differently. I'm just lucky I
had a good couple clean laps and then
once I had a li le bit of a gap I could just
ride and try not to make any mistakes."
9 DANILO PETRUCCI
3-1 SUPERBIKE
"Yesterday was a tough one," said Danilo
Petrucci of his weekend. "I tried the first
lap to stay as close as I can to Jake, but I
almost crashed, like in the prac ce. I was
able to hold the bike but with my feet.
I couldn't turn here, and I ran wide in
the corner later, so also Cam [Petersen]
came past me. Then I was able to pass
