ROUND 4 / JUNE 27-29, 2025
RIDGE MOTORSPORT PARK / SHELTON, WASHINGTON
ROAD RACE I MOTOAMERICA AMA/FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
P96
some points. I need to keep this thing
on two wheels.' I knew how fast Jake
was going, and Josh, this weekend.
When Josh started riding away from
me, I was like, 'Let's just be patient.'
Then he started coming back a little
bit. I got a sniff and kept going. We had
a little battle at the end, but I couldn't
get close enough. He was good off
all the short corners getting that thing
hooked up onto the straights. I just
wasn't close enough to make any kind
of move."
At the finish line, it was Herrin by
0.194 of a second over Beaubier. The
win was the 19th of Herrin's career, and
it puts him ninth on the all-time AMA
Superbike win list.
Gagne, meanwhile, lost contact with
the Herrin/Beaubier battle, finishing
2.4 seconds behind in third place. The
top three raced three different brands
of motorcycles to the podium—Ducati,
BMW and Yamaha.
"[It was] just foreign territory up
there going into turn one not behind
a bunch of guys," Gagne said.
"Compared to how slow I've been this
year, it's just good to be up there and
finish a few seconds off those guys,
and at least that first half kind of be
sniffing them."
About three seconds behind
Gagne, his teammate, Bobby Fong,
was defending against the advances
of Vision Wheel M4 Ecstar Suzuki's
Richie Escalante.
Escalante's teammate Sean Dylan
Kelly finished about 13 seconds behind
in sixth place. BPR Racing's Bryce
Kornbau was a solitary seventh, and,
likewise, JD Beach was eighth with
his stock 1000-spec Real Steel Honda
CBR1000RR-R SP.
Edge Racing's Jason Waters and
Thrashed Bike Racing's Max Flinders
rounded out the top 10.
Beaubier (6) made it a race for the wins, but
despite coming up short both times, he was
happy to come away with second, with his
home track up next on the schedule.
