AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
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lutely dominated the series, winning 13 of the 18
races with team riders Mat Mladin and Aaron Yates
finishing first and second in the championship.
LACK OF DEPTH
A big problem with separating Superstock 1000
bikes from Superbike this year into two differ-
ent classes was that the depth of Superbike
was razor thin. The fact is historically there often
have only been 10 or fewer true Superbikes
in the series supplemented by less modified
Superstock-type machines. But MotoAmerica's
decision of making two classes out of what has
traditionally been a single class had the conse-
quence of many races this year featuring fewer
than 10 Superbikes. It's an issue MotoAmerica
knows it needs to address, but at the moment
there seems to be no indication of any more
factory Superbikes in the field next year than this
season.
As it stands McGraw Powersports Suzuki's
Elena Myers ended 2015 rounding out the top
five in the final Superbike standings.
GAGNE WINS MOTOAMERICA
SUPERSTOCK 1000 CHAMPIONSHIP
On Sunday at New Jersey Motorsports Park
Jake Gagne clinched the 2015 MotoAmerica
Superstock 1000 Championship with his 13th win
in 18 races this season aboard his RoadRace
Factory/Yamaha R1.
Following up the AMA Pro Racing Daytona
SportBike Championship that he won in 2014,
Gagne established from the very first round of
the inaugural MotoAmerica Superstock 1000
season at the Circuit of The Americas – when he
won both races – that he was the man to beat
for the title. All told, the Californian notched five
double wins out of nine rounds this season.
"We had an awesome year," Gagne said.
"And we ended up here with the number-one
plate. That was the goal we set out to do at the
beginning of the year and it feels amazing to
get it done. Especially for the whole RoadRace
bike development stands. "The Yamaha kind of fits
more like the 600 model. That's what I would like
to see, so it's not quite as hard changing direc-
tions. I know they're working really hard on it. I'm
excited to get a new machine, we need it. I just
hope it doesn't take to the end of the season to
develop it. I hope we get it early enough that we're
ready when we show up for the first race."
If history is any indication, Suzuki fans could
have a lot to look forward to in 2016. When Suzuki
was shut out in 2002, it came back with a rede-
signed GSX-R1000 in 2003 and Yoshimura abso-
