ers would be contesting select-
ed rounds of the 2023 season
after failing to
secure a ride in
Supersport despite his race-
winning pedigree last year, and
missing round one at Daytona.
Landers has thus made sure
those lamenting feelings have
proven correct by taking three
straight race wins on the sec-
ond Rodio Racing - Powered
By Robem
Engineering Aprilia
RS660, both of which at Barber
were in dominant fashion.
Landers took race one over
the hugely impressive Kayla
Yaakov (The WagBar MP13 Rac-
ing Yamaha) by 1.1 seconds and
Dominic
Doyle (Team ISO Yama-
ha), while in race two Landers
second
over the impressive De
Keyrel, who took his second
career Stock 1000 podium in
race two in only his second race
meeting from Beaubier, half a
second in arrears.
After a disastrous first round
at Road Atlanta in which he only
brought home 10 points means
that Gillim hasn't yet taken the
title lead. That belongs to Beau-
bier on 86 points from Gillim's
and
De Keyrel's 60 with Taylor
Knapp in third.
Twins Cup
You could almost hear the col-
lective groans of the Twins Cup
field when
the news broke that
former champion Rocco Land-
Stock 1000
The Stock 1000 category at
Barber Motorsports Park was
all about Hayden Gillim. The
Disrupt Racing Suzuki rider was
simply in a class of his own, tak
-
ing pole position by 0.999 of a
second
over Travis Wyman Rac-
ing BMW's Travis Wyman and
searing away
to the race-one
win over the Orange Cat Racing
BMW pairing of second-placed
Ezra Beaubier and Kaleb De
Keyrel by 4.5 seconds and 9.008
seconds, respectively.
The Kentuckian, running the
number 69 and replica helmet
reminiscent of his late friend,
the great Nicky Hayden, im
-
proved in race two by half a
ROUND 2 / MAY 19-21, 2023
BARBER MOTORSPORTS PARK / BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
ROAD RACE I MOTOAMERICA / FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP
P70
This was as close as anyone
got to Hayden Gillim all
weekend in Stock 1000.
