AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
VOL. 52 ISSUE 26 JUNE 30, 2015 P105
healthy and I look forward to
Laguna Seca. I'll take away a
little consolation battle with Josh
there those first couple laps.
These guys rode good and we
need to improve a little bit still, I
look forward to Laguna."
DAY'S DAY
After a victory in his first go with
the Yamalube/Westby Racing
squad, it has been a rough road
plagued with crashes and tech-
nical problems. But finally, Josh
Day had his day, and scored two
Superstock 1000 wins.
"It's definitely a lot better for
us this weekend," Day said. "I
wish we could have found our
main problem with the front a
lot sooner so we could have
been up there for a couple other
races, but it is what it is. That's
how racing goes sometimes, but
now we got it all sorted pretty
well. Should be good for us from
now on out for the rest of the
year."
For Day the turning point for
himself and his team was as
much of a relief as the return to
the top of the box.
"Yeah, we definitely made a
huge turning point this weekend
as far as getting the feel on the
bike that I've really been chasing
all year," he said after race one.
"We've been trying all kinds of
different things and we could
never seem to get anything to
work well for me. We were just
always pushing as hard as we
could and I think that's why we
had so many falls leading up to
this weekend. It's usually not like
me to fall that much so it was
getting a little bit frustrating for
me as well. It felt really good to
be able to pull through with a win
this weekend and be able to be
up there with Jake and challenge
him almost until the end."
On the flip side it was not Jake
Gagne's day. The RoadRace
Factory rider took a huge hit in
the championship after a me-
chanical in race one and a crash
in race two while battling with
Yoshimura Suzuki's Jake Lewis
for fourth.
Gagne's misfortune did,
however, work in Taylor Knapp's
favor, as the TOBC Racing
Yamaha rider's pair of podiums
(2-3) closed the gap on the Su-
perstock 1000 points leader to
just 17 points from 44 going into
the weekend.
