VOL. 50 ISSUE 31 AUGUST 6, 2013
to his teammate Beaubier and actually led 10 of the
16 laps in Saturday's race and led big portions of
Sunday's race as well. More importantly he was
there at the end with a chance to win, something
few riders have been able to accomplish against
Beaubier in Daytona SportBike.
Gerloff led early in Saturday's race while Beaubier worked his way up from a fourth-place start.
It took nine laps in the 16-lap final before Beaubier
finally made it to the front and took the lead for the
first time. But Gerloff didn't concede the race and
the two teammates began a great dice back and
forth that would last the rest of the race. In the process Beach and Lewis were able to narrow the gap
and make it a four-rider battle for the lead.
In the end, Beaubier put his racing experience
to good use and held off Gerloff, Beach and Lewis
to the line.
"It was really cool racing with JD [Beach] and
Garrett," Beaubier said. "We made a couple of
passes back and forth. It was good. At the beginning of the race I struggled really bad. My bike honestly felt like a complete different bike. It took me
a long time to get up to speed. We made some
changes this morning thinking it would be good for
this afternoon, but I don't know what happened. I
was struggling pretty bad out there."
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Briefly...
Yamaha riders Josh Hayes and
Cameron Beaubier kept their
perfect 2013 pole records intact at
Miller. Hayes has won the pole for
every round this year in Superbike
and Beaubier has done the same in
Daytona SportBike.
Three Daytona SportBike riders
were told by AMA Pro Racing they
would have to remove aftermarket
shrouds on their Yamaha R6s.
Two of those riders were the factory-backed entries of Cameron
Beaubier and Garrett Gerloff as
well as Meen Motorsport rider Jake
Lewis. The shrouds are bodywork
pieces under the fairing that fills
in the space between the radiator
and frame and also around the front
forks. The use of the shrouds was
brought up by RoadRace Factory's
Danny Walker. Walker had similar shrouds designed for his team
bikes and was told by AMA Pro
Racing technical officials that they
could not run them. Walker simply
asked why his team wasn't allowed
to run them when others were. A
clear answer as to why some riders were allowed to run them and
others weren't never came from
Pro Racing, they simply asked the
teams that ran them to remove them
for Sunday's races and beyond. No
penalties were assessed.
RoadRace Factory Danny Walker
said he wasn't trying to upset anyone or wasn't looking for a disqualification over the Yamaha R6
shroud issue. "I just want a level
playing field for everyone," Walker
explained. "When I'm told I can't
run a part on our motorcycles that
other teams are using then that's
a problem. If the part is legal then
that's fine. If not that's fine too. I just
want it to be enforced equally."
