CHAMPIONSHIP
VOL. 52 ISSUE 24 JUNE 16, 2015 P155
lead coming in, but leaving with
a victory in race two meant leav-
ing on a positive note. Suzuki's
Lewis and Hayden are 56 and
64 points back respectively in
third and fourth. Not ideal, but
a much better position in the
chase than they were coming
into Barber, thanks to the Beau-
bier DNF.
Hayes complimented Beau-
bier on putting together a smart
final lap.
"It was slippery out there with
all the heat," Hayes said. "Cam
was strong in the right areas on
the track. It just came down to
who could put together the right
lap together at the right time.
He rode the last lap like he was
supposed to and I really didn't
have any options."
One bad lap with two big
mistakes put Hayden out of the
sweepstakes for the win in race
two. Hayden again was battling
most of the race for the lead
with Beaubier and Hayes, but in
the last three laps he lost touch
when he made a mistake and
ran wide in a couple of turns on
the same lap.
"I was giving it all I had just to
stay with those guys," Hayden
said. "With about three or four
laps to go I got into turn five way
too deep and ran wide. I tried
to make it all up going into the
museum corner and ran wide
again and those guys got a
big gap. I knew I wasn't going
to catch them and I didn't see
any point in trying to chuck it
down the road trying to, so I just
brought it home. I was pretty
happy to run with those guys for
the first 17 laps. The race pace
was definitely a lot quicker than
I thought it would be. We're im-
proving and I'm going to another
track I like in Miller, so hopefully
Briefly...
to P4 at the end."
Aprilia HSBK Racing's Sheridan
Moriais had a strange thing hap-
pen to him in Superbike/Superstock
race one. A tire weight flew off his
bike's wheel and hit him in the calf.
It startled him enough that he ran
off the track into the gravel trap and
tipped over; ending his race.
Former multi-time AMA 250 Grand
Prix Champion Rich Oliver was on
hand at Barber and did some laps
on one of his Yamaha 250GP bikes.
They had a modern R6 on hand just
in case anything went wrong with the
old two-stroke.
In KTM RC Cup qualifying, it was
Gage McAllister on his NCR-backed
machine topping the charts with a
1:43.707. Brandon Altmeyer and An-
thony Mazziotto III started alongside
McAllister. McAllister had a grueling
weekend, racing the Superstock
600 class as well, a tough task in
the Alabama heat. "I'm racing both
classes and at first hopping on the
KTM was a bit difficult because of
the difference of speed," McAllister
said after KTM qualifying. "But once
I got used to being back on the KTM
I was able to work with the guys I was
running with on the track. The key is
just to get that little bit of draft to help
you in certain areas and I was able to
get a really good run on the last lap."
On Saturday and Sunday, Kawasaki
showed off its super-charged, 300
horsepower Kawasaki Ninja H2R
with demonstration laps around the
Barber racetrack with Jeremy Toye
riding the bike. The bike looked
amazingly fast accelerating out of
turn five.
Yoshimura Suzuki duo—Roger
Hayden (95) and Jake Lewis (85)
joined Hayes on the podium in
race one.
