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ably all year. There's some tricky
stuff. You've got to know where
there are some slick spots.
"Cam was hauling and ran
away from the beginning," Gagne
added. "I was pretty impressed
with how hard he was going
straight off the bat. I kind of was
just rolling around behind him.
Couldn't do anything about it.
Then that last lap, he was able
to put on a charge, and I couldn't
stay there."
"The mistake, I think, for a lap
or two, I just started riding super
tense," Herrin said, "because I
went from a two-and-a-half sec-
ond gap to now he [Sean Dylan
Kelly]
was right there. I think I
almost high-sided in five. It was
where I had to be really careful.
"I saw zero on my board, and
then I started looking at Jake's
pit board," he added. "I saw
our gap growing and felt pretty
comfortable at that pace. I knew
Jake wasn't going anywhere. So,
I didn't try to ride over my head. I
just tried to stay in my lane."
"He was getting good drives,"
Gagne said. "He was using the
rear tire, and I was kind of using
the front tire. So, any opportunity
of getting close enough to try to
make a pass was tough. Coming
into this, a rain race here is a lot
different than Barber. Just sur-
viving out here is priority number
one. To me, this is the sketchiest
track to ride in the rain, prob-
At the finish line, it was Herrin
by
just 0.147 of a second over
Kelly.
Flo4Law/SBU Racing's Ben-
jamin Smith achieved a remark-
able fifth-place finish, marking
his
best career performance
in Superbike. He fought hard
and outpaced Vision Wheel M4
Ecstar Suzuki's Richie Escalante
by 1.1 seconds.
The Real Steel Honda pairing
of Hayden Gillim and JD Beach
finished seventh and eighth,
respectively. Aftercare Scheibe
Racing's Danilo Lewis and Jones
Honda's Ashton Yates rounded
out the top 10.
Attack Performance Progres
-
sive Yamaha Racing's Bobby Fong
ended
up 11th after crashing out
of third place and remounting to
score five valuable points.
The top four finishers were
mounted on four different
makes of motorcycle: BMW,
Yamaha, Ducati, and Suzuki.
"I was just trying to stay fo
-
cused on every part of the track,"
Beaubier said after
Saturday's
win. "Like Jake said, there are
some corners out there that
will just catch you. You feel like
you'll go through the same as
you did the lap before, and your
front tire will push right out from
under you. Down into turn three,
I knifed the front a couple of
times in the sighting-lap ses
-
sion and also in the race. Then,
where I fell
over in the sighting-
lap session, there were a couple
of times I had the front kind of
push around a little bit. So, I
definitely had my spots where I
felt like I could roll around pretty
good, and then other spots
PJ Jacobsen and Jake
Lewis went 1-2 in a
thrilling Supersport race
on Saturday.
