ROUND 4/JULY 13, 2014
MAZDA RACEWAY LAGUNA SECA/MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA
P96
AMA DAYTONA SPORTBIKE SERIES
DAYTONA SPORTBIKE
BY ANDREA WILSON
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN J. NELSON
AND ANDREA WILSON
H
ard work and persistence
pays off. And in racing it
doesn't hurt to add put-
ting your head down and not
looking back, which is exactly
what Meen Yamaha's Jake Lewis
did to take his first career AMA
Daytona SportBike win at Mazda
Raceway Laguna Seca.
"I was sitting on the grid and
just thinking I'm going to win this
race," Lewis said. "Because last
year I was so close to winning;
I've been so close to winning. I
got off to a good start, went into
the lead in turn two and never
looked back. That's been my
weakness throughout my career,
just looking back. So I just put my
head down, stayed focused and
just clicked off lap after lap and
got in a good rhythm and brought
home the win."
And the victory is all that
sweeter after all the hard work
the 18-year-old from Kentucky
has been putting in to get that
first SportBike win in his sopho-
more season.
Jake Lewis celebrates
his first-career victory
in the Daytona
SportBike class.
JAKE LEWIS GETS HIS FIRST DAYTONA
SPORTBIKE WIN AT LAGUNA SECA
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