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took over the points lead when Gagne suffered a mechanical issue that knocked him out of the race. "Something about this track is just special for me," said Beaubier. "I love coming here." Herrin held on for third place after earning pole position with a new lap record in qualifying on Saturday morning. Vision Wheel M4 Ecstar Su - zuki's Richie Escalante finished fourth for the second race in a row, ending up four seconds adrift of Herrin and four and a half seconds ahead of Fresh N Lean Progressive Yamaha Racing's Cameron Petersen, the South African bravely racing despite an injured right wrist. Vision Wheel M4 Ecstar Su - zuki's Toni Elias was sixth, well After completing lap one in sixth, while pole sitter Herrin streaked away at the front of the field, Beaubier put his head down and started his charge. On lap two, Beaubier was fourth and a lap later he was third. He stayed there for two more laps before passing his teammate PJ Jacobsen and chasing down Herrin. Beaubier took the lead on the sixth lap and two laps later the race was red flagged when a blown engine oiled the racing sur - face. At that point the race was called complete with Beaubier 2.7 seconds clear of Jacobsen, who forced his way past Herrin and into second the lap prior. Beaubier not only won his 11th career Superbike race at Road America (and 56th of his Superbike career), but he also ROUND 3 / JUNE 3-4, 2023 ROAD AMERICA / ELKHART LAKE, WISCONSIN ROAD RACE I MOTO AMERICA FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP P92 12 XAVI FORES 1-1 SUPERPORT "I realized already this morning in warmup I was not able to pass him on the draft," Xavi Fores said of his great battle with Stefano Mesa in race two. "He is lighter than me and the bike is fast, but I wanted to see how was his pace. I ran wide in the chicane. I lost the front a little bit, so I said, okay. I looked back and no one was coming close to us. I said, 'okay, I'm going to let him pass and try to understand his pace.' So after that, on the first split, I was a little bit faster than him and I was solid braking into turn five, so I passed again. I was quite okay doing 16 on my pace. I was pushing so hard. I was looking back all the time and he was there. 34 ROSSI MOOR 2-1 JUNIOR CUP "Yesterday, I wanted to try and stay in second place and try to not lead the race because I remember when Avery was say- ing that on this track you really don't want to lead, especially on the last laps since the draft is so important here," Moor said. "But I was analyzing the race yesterday and I thought that I had the pace to be able to break away. I just have to put my head down and sometimes you need a little bit of luck, like somebody making a mistake, to have that little breakaway. So, it was a re- ally good race for me, after the bad luck I've had this season with two DNF's." MYOWNRACE