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233. The final round of the 2023 MotoAmerica Superbike Cham- pionship will take place at New Jersey Motorsports Park, NJ, on September 22-24, 2023. SUPERSPORT The MotoAmerica Supersport Championship always looked like a foregone conclusion before they arrived in Texas, and so it proved to be as Xavi Fores wrapped up the title as a rookie for the Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati team with a 1.1-second victory over Tyler Scott (Vision Wheel M4 Ecstar Suzuki), his teammate Teagg Hobbs, and a Race two saw a revitalized Herrin, keen to make up for his mechanical mishap of Saturday. He led off the start and stayed out front for all 10 laps of the red- flag-interrupted race with Gagne on his tail the entire time. At the finish, it was Herrin four seconds ahead, with Gagne giving up the chase on the final lap. The pair were the only riders to lap in the 2:09s, with Gagne getting the fastest lap of the race with his 2:09.746 to Herrin's 2:09.776. Third place went to Tytlers Cycle Racing's PJ Jacobsen, with the New Yorker some five sec - onds behind Gagne. "It took all the way until the second half of the Saturday race for us to be comfortable and then Sunday would be good for us," Herrin said. "I don't want to celebrate too much. I feel like a linebacker getting a sack or some - thing in a football game when you're down by 30 points, because we lost the championship. But it feels good to get this win." Wrench Motorcycles' Bobby Fong was a come-from-behind fourth and closing on Jacobsen, ending up some six seconds adrift of the BMW. Vision Wheel M4 Ecstar Su - zuki's Brandon Paasch ended up fifth, five seconds ahead of Aftercare Scheibe Racing's Ashton Yates, who had Tytlers Cycle Racing's Stefano Mesa, filling in for the injured Cameron Beaubier, nipping at his heels and just 0.341 seconds behind at the finish line. The series points have Gagne on an unassailable 382 from Herrin's 261 and Jacobsen's VOLUME ISSUE SEPETEMBER , P89 12 XAVI FORES 1-2 SUPERSPORT "Overall, it was a positive weekend," Xavi Fores said. "We got the title in race one, which was the plan, and the rest of the weekend was quite positive. We led most of the sessions and most of the race laps, but today I was struggling on the straight with the horsepower of the other bikes. I really didn't like that, but it's something we have to deal with. I accept it, because this makes my riding better. Once again, thank you so much to all the people within Ducati, everyone within the Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati NYC team. We have back-to-back titles, which we are so happy about, and now we will try to finish strong in New Jersey." MYOWNRACE Jake Gagne made it look easy in race one with a clear win.