AMA SUPERBIKE SERIES
SUPERBIKE
BY PAUL CARRUTHERS
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN J. NELSON
W
e all knew Cameron
Beaubier was going
to win AMA Superbike
races in his rookie season. We
just weren't sure it was going
to be in only his second race.
Though judging by the way he
stormed through last year's Day-
tona SportBike Series, no one
was truly surprised.
So what did winning his first
AMA Superbike National mean to
the non-defending AMA Daytona
SportBike Champion?
"It means everything," the
21-year-old Beaubier said. "I've
worked really hard to get to where
I am and can't thank the Monster
Energy Graves Yamaha team
enough for giving me this oppor-
tunity. It was a little bit smoother
of a race than yesterday. I didn't
go off the track or anything,
which I was happy about. A little
more consistent."
Beaubier won his first-ever Su-
perbike National in the second
of two races at Daytona Interna-
tional Speedway – a day after his
veteran teammate Josh Hayes
won the 42
nd
of his career. Un-
fortunately, for Hayes, he wasn't
there to try and prevent his up-
start teammate from winning
race two as his Monster Energy
Graves Yamaha expired on lap
10. That left Yoshimura Suzuki's
Roger Lee Hayden and Mar-
tin Cardenas to try and stop the
ROUNDS 1-2/MARCH 14-15, 2014
DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY/DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA
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Yamaha wins both races with
Josh Hayes and Cameron Beaubier
THE OLD AND
YOUNG OF IT
