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Cycle News 2024 Issue 28 July 16

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VOLUME ISSUE JULY , P85 (Tytlers Cycle Racing Kawasaki). The points have Scholtz on 259 to Jacobsen's 241 with Lewis third on 128. STOCK 1000 With one round to go in the 2024 Stock 1000 Championship, it is all to play for following the La- guna Seca round. What seemed like a walk in the park for defend- ing champion Hayden Gillim (Real Steel Motorsports Honda) has turned out to be anything but, with chief title rival Jayson Uribe (OrangeCat BMW) now sit - ting a mere seven points off the lead with 50 points to play for at the final round in New Jersey this September 27-29. a weak point for him. I feel like when you sit behind somebody for so long, you end up studying them. You sit there and study, and study, and study. No of- fense to Scholtz, but last year, he had a massive highside in that corner, and he almost lost it again this year. So, I kind of knew that he was a bit weak there. Going over that rise, I just knew I had more pace sitting behind him and it was going to allow me to go into [turn] 10 with a more aggressive move. So, that's what I ended up doing after studying like that." Fourth went to the second Rahal Ducati Moto w/ Roller Die + Forming machine of Corey Alex - ander, and fifth was Stefano Mesa to stuff it up the inside at the penultimate corner following his rocket-like drive out of the Rainey Curve. Scholtz was forced to stand the bike up in a hard but fair move by Jacobsen, who went off to record his second win of the weekend from Scholtz with Davis again third, but this time an encouraging seven seconds off the winning time. "This racing thing, when two riders have the pace and they're so similar with each other, you got to find a lot of spots that that person, you can overtake them," Jacobsen said after race two. "So yesterday, when I overtook him in turn six, I felt like that was a good pass, and that was Hayden Gillim (1) charged hard in KOTB race two for the win over Kyle Wyman (33). Bobby Fong (50) retired.

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