ROUND 2, MAY 17-19, 2024
BARBER MOTORSPORTS PARK / BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
ROAD RACE I MOTOAMERICA / FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
P68
Motorsports Honda) snagged
pole position and rode off into
the sunset.
With the field now sport-
ing a vastly increased number
of
Hondas thanks to the Big
H's substantial contingency
program for 2024, Gillim and
the number one came home
11.5 seconds up on Gabriel Da
Silva (GMR/Jones Honda) with
former Superstock 600 Cham
-
pion Bryce Prince (BPR Racing
Yamaha)
taking third.
Race two was much of the
same as Gillim drilled home a
10.5-second win over Prince
with Benjamin Smith (Flo4Law
Racing Yamaha) completing the
podium, four-tenths of a second
off Price.
on Jacobsen, who had his hands
full with the N2 Racing/Bobble
-
HeadMoto Yamaha of class
rookie
and former two-time Twins
Cup Champion Blake Davis.
Gerado came home fourth
ahead of the constantly improv-
ing Equitea MV Agusta by MP13
Racing
entry of Italian veteran
Roberto Tamburini.
In the series points, Jacobsen
still leads after his pair of sec-
onds at Barber, 90 to Scholtz's
79.
Gerado is third on 49.
STOCK 1000
The first round of the 2024 Mo-
toAmerica Stock 1000 Cham-
pionship was held at Barber,
and
it was a champion's benefit
as Hayden Gillim (Real Steel
(XPEL-sponsored Rahal Ducati
Moto), dragging the New Yorker
to the line by two-tenths of
a second for his first career
Supersport win. Gerardo held on
for an equally impressive first
MotoAmerica podium in third,
1.1 seconds off Scholtz's win
-
ning time.
Race
two was a two-part
affair. Early race leader Scott suf-
fered a monumental highside out
of
turn two, luckily not sustaining
any injuries, just a "bruised ego,"
according to the Vision Wheel
team's Instagram post.
With the second part of race
two scheduled for 11 laps,
Scholtz made the early running
and never relinquished, coming
home nine-tenths of a second up
Mikayla Moore
made it nine in a
row as she defends
the Royal Enfield
number-one plate.
