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ically in with a shot at the title, 49 points adrift with 100 left on the table over the next two rounds. Behind the galloping Gagne, Jake Lewis had his best ride in a number of rounds, with fifth in race one, holding up the Vision Wheel M4 Ecstar Suzuki team honors after teammate Richie Escalante dive-bombed the pack off the straight on lap one, with Scholtz having to take avoidance action to miss the tumbling black Suzuki. SUPERSPORT Josh Herrin came into the PA round of MA Supersport with a 76-point lead and left the PA round with a 76-point lead over That cut Petrucci's title lead to eight points over Gagne, but it did not get better for the former, as the latter made doubly sure of his weekend with a dominant 4.8-second win in a processional race two—only this time it was Friday pacesetter Mathew Scholtz (third in race one) who pitched in for the Yamaha cause by beating his archnemesis, Petrucci, to sec- ond with the Italian taking third. The result moves Gagne back into the championship lead over Petrucci by one point, 290-289, with Cameron Petersen (Fresh N Lean Progressive Yamaha Rac- ing YZF-R1), who took a pair of fourths at PittRace, still mathemat- ROUND 8 / AUGUST 19-21, 2022 PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL RACE COMPLEX / WAMPUM, PENNSYLVANIA P74 ROAD RACE I FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP MYOWNRACE 1 JAKE GAGNE 1-1 SUPERBIKE "On paper, it was a great weekend. I'm happy," Gagne said. "We worked great as a team, even star ng on Friday. Most of these tracks this year, our goal has been to go faster than last year. Obviously, we've got two rounds le , four races, and it's as ght as you could be in the points chase. So, I'm happy. It's an honor to be racing these guys and be in the championship hunt with Danilo (Petrucci). I think it's go- ing to come down to us for a couple more races. For me, that's exci ng." 9 DANILO PETRUCCI 2-3 SUPERBIKE "It was a tough weekend, more than I expected," Petrucci said. "We had the chance to ride here at the endurance race last weekend but it wasn't really useful because, in the end, we suffered a lot of trac on issues. I found it difficult to fol- low Jake [Gagne] in the two races. Also, Mathew was really fast in the second race. I was hoping for the rain this morning, but this a ernoon the situa on was worse than yesterday and I was struggling a lot. Regardless, we are s ll in the fight for the championship. However, we need to step up our performance." Josh Herrin's race-two win puts one hand and four fingers on the Supersport title.