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Cycle News 2025 Issue 18 May 6

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ROUND 2 / MAY 2-4, 2025 MICHELIN RACEWAY ROAD ATLANTA / BRASELTON, GEORGIA ROAD RACE I MOTOAMERICA AMA/FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP P92 though I definitely dislike this place as well." Herrin wasn't completely satis- fied. "I don't want to be finishing third, but leaving the second race way, way better off than we were last year makes me happy. I want to do better and want to get closer to Cam and Bobby, but you've got to take what you get sometimes and be happy with it." Kelly was fourth, some three seconds behind Herrin and anoth - er three seconds ahead of Fong's teammate Gagne, who had his hands full in the closing laps with Kelly's teammate Escalante. Escalante ended up just 0.197 of a second behind Gagne at the finish line. "Today being able to win with a little gap there felt awesome," Beaubier said. "It seems like this place brings good racing, good battles. It's hard to get away from people here in the past compared to other tracks. So, I was pretty happy with being able to run away a little bit at the beginning." Fong, who crashed the day before, kept Beaubier honest. He pushed into Beaubier's lead and maintained pressure until the end, finishing 2.3 seconds behind after 19 laps. Fong held a 10-second lead over Herrin. "It's cool to get on the po - dium...and some points," Fong said. "I've always done pretty well here over the years, even the first time I had the rear come around. It was pretty big. So, he caught me. I think that was on the last lap. So, I had tried to build up a little gap in the esses and stuff." Beaubier secured the hole - shot in drier conditions on Sunday and quickly gapped the field, concluding his weekend with two victories. However, he could never let up with Fong not too far behind. Mathew Scholtz (1) made up for his disappointing fifth on Saturday by winning Sunday's Supersport race.

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