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myself up good enough to make
a pass on one of them, especial-
ly with how close they were.
"So,
going into the last lap,
I flipped it left to right in that
turn-three section and suddenly
I saw a puff of smoke and Bob
go tumbling through the grass.
I was like, no way did that just
happen. No way…"
Yamaha running the preferred
soft-compound Dunlop.
"Then on Sunday, we were
able to run the softer rear, which
was good, but I was just hanging
on for dear life with those guys,"
Beaubier says of Fong and Her
-
rin. "Then they started battling.
Going into
the last lap, I could
hang on, just, but I couldn't set
Beaubier and the Tytlers
Cycle BMW team were on the
back foot after two crashes
on Friday, one in which Beau
-
bier worryingly had no idea the
cause
of. That meant the BMW
was out of its crucial setup
window and ensured the team
had to run the hard rear tire for
race one compared to Fong and
