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ROUND 4 / JUNE 14-16, 2024 BRAINERD INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY P90 way at that point, but the kid is a fighter. He made me work for that one way harder than any race this season so far. But it's cool to race these guys. They're always super-fast. Rossi and I kind of got to get our elbows out there a little bit, especially Rossi, though he's a little bit down on power. Hopefully, we'll be able to find some things for COTA." In the championship, Landers sits 19 points clear on 185 to Di Mario's 166. Gus Rodio (Rodio Racing - Powered by Robem En - gineering) is third on 131 after taking a pair of fourth places at Brainerd. JUNIOR CUP Race one for the Junior Cup had rain in the forecast but it held off, save for a few rain - win over Di Mario, Moor com- pleting the top three. Race two was a closer affair and Landers, Moor and Di Mario went at it from the green. Land- ers made his move at the exit of turn one on the last lap, edging past Di Mario and allowing Moor the chance to get up to second at turn three. Di Mario immediately fought back, but by then Landers had opened up a race-winning gap, the orange Suzuki taking the win five-tenths of a second up on Di Mario, with Moor nine-tenths of a second back in third. "I kind of got it a little bit deep, and if I had snatched the brakes, I would have gone down," Land - ers said of his contact with Di Mario. "I assumed he might see me and kind of get out of the Herfoss leads the series on 205 points to Wyman's 192. O'Hara is third on 142. BELLISSIMOTO TWINS CUP Rocco Landers loves Brainerd. The four-time MotoAmerica Champion on the RevZilla/ Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki matched his Bagger heroics by qualifying on pole in the Bellis- siMoto Twins Cup, three-tenths up on Rodio Racing-Powered by Robem Engineering's Alessan- dro Di Mario with Rossi Moor making it two Suzuki GSX-8R's in the top three on the Vision Wheel M4 Ecstar Suzuki entry. After a couple of early skir- mishes with Moor, Landers pulled past on lap two and headed home for a 3.8-second Mathew Scholtz (11) made it look easy in MotoAmerica Supersport with both race wins. ROAD RACE I MOTOAMERICA/FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP