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ROAD RACE ROUND 2 / APRIL 29-30, 2017 ROAD ATLANTA / ATLANTA, GEORGIA P90 2017 MOTOAMERICA AMA/FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP racetrack, plain and simple." For Elias, after scoring his third win in four races, he natu- rally saw it differently. "It's very simple," the Span- iard said. "Yesterday I was clean also, like it has been today, but I received [two] hits and went in the grass. I could [race] harder, but I don't need it. We can play clean, and not like this. Me and Roger [Hayden] today we had a big battle, and we have been clean [with] each other. We play clean. But, if we have to play a little bit more dirty that is my strongest point, and I'm also strong in strategy. If you [Beau- bier] want to come here like this [aggressive], let's do it." Elias ended up besting his Yo- shimura Suzuki teammate Roger Hayden by 0.308 of a second with Beaubier and his Yamaha YZF-R1 another 0.256 of a sec- ond behind in third. Josh Hayes, third in race one, crashed out. In the Superstock 1000 cat- egory, it was a first category win for Jake Lewis and the M4 Ecstar Suzuki squad in what proved to be a triple delight for the Kentucky rider, with Saturday's runner up Bobby Fond crashing out and Mathew Scholtz retiring with a mechanical failure, thus hoisting Lewis to a tie in the series with Fong at 70 points, Scholtz another five points back in third. Saturday. The Spaniard moved over on Beaubier on the run to turn 12, then touching his helmet and looking back at his new rival as if to say, "I know what you did last summer." "I got a decent drive up the hill coming into the last corner and Toni [Elias] looked back and was off the gas a little bit, so I just went to the outside to brake and he moved over on me, hard," Beaubier said. "I knew it was be- cause of yesterday's incident in the last corner. He looked back at me and shook his head. I felt like I didn't do anything wrong so I just told him I wasn't in the wrong there. I was wondering why he was tapping his helmet after the race finished, and he said he has memory, or some- thing like that. At the end of the day I have memory about all the crap he did last year. I still have respect for the guy, but I'm not going to respect someone that doesn't respect us out on the victory was also hard-earned with the Yamalube/Westby Rac- ing Yamaha rider besting round- one victor, Quicksilver Latus Motors Kawasaki's Bobby Fong, by just 0.616 of a second. Third went to M4 Ecstar Suzuki's Jake Lewis, five seconds ahead of Excelsus Solutions/Lucas Oil/ KWR's Kyle Wyman on his Ya- maha YZF-R1 superbike. Genu- ine Broaster Chicken Honda's Jake Gagne (superbike) rounded out the top 10. Sunday's Superbike and Superstock 1000 races were equally dramatic, although we'll have to wait for another Elias and Beaubier last-lap bell ringer as the Spaniard held on to defeat team- mate Roger Hayden with Beaubier in third. Rounding out the top five was Herrin and Wyman. Elias and Beaubier, once again, went at it from the get- go, although this time Toni had revenge firmly on his mind after what he saw as an injustice on Mathew Scholtz (11) takes his first MotoAmerica Superstock 1000 win in race one from Bobby Fong (50). Neither would finish race two.