AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
Briefly...
The Monster Energy/Graves
Motorsports Yamaha team was
perfect this season winning every
round of the 2015 MotoAmerica/
AMA Superbike Championship. In
the end Josh Hayes scored 10 victo-
ries while Cameron Beaubier earned
eight. Hayes now has 58-career
MotoAmerica/AMA Superbike wins,
second on the all-time Superbike
wins list.
Cameron Beaubier becomes the
20
th
rider to win the AMA Super-
bike Championship. At 22 (plus nine
months) he becomes the fourth-
youngest to win the title. The only
riders to be younger when they first
won the series were Nicky Hayden
(the youngest ever at 21), Fred
Merkel and Ben Spies.
Yamaha has now won seven AMA
Superbike Championships, which
places them fourth all-time among
manufacturers behind Suzuki with
13, Kawasaki with nine and Honda
with eight. Yamaha's current streak
of six-consecutive AMA Superbike
titles is the second-longest manu-
facturers winning streak behind only
Suzuki's amazing 2003 to 2009 run
of seven straight.
Yoshimura Suzuki's Jake Lewis suf-
fered a rare crash in Superbike race
one. His fall brought out the red flag.
"It was a tough way to end the year,"
Lewis said after being checked
out by a medical team. "I had a re-
ally bad high-side. It started raining
and I flicked the bike in and the rear
end stepped out. I didn't land on
my shoulder, but I guess the jarring
from getting flicked off separated my
shoulder. I landed pretty hard." Se-
doubleheader of the combined
Superbike/Superstock 1000
races at NJMP. That was all
Beaubier needed to come
away with the title of 2015
MotoAmerica/AMA Superbike
Champion.
After 18 rounds Beaubier won
the title by four points, 372-368.
It was the end of a remarkable
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CHAMP
CAMERON BEAUBIER PLAYS IT SMART
IN NEW JERSEY TO EARN THE 2015
MOTOAMERICA SUPERBIKE TITLE
