ROAD RACE
ROUND 4 / JUNE 3-4, 2017
ROAD AMERICA / ELKHART LAKE, WISCONSIN
P110
2017 MOTOAMERICA
track dried out really fast, but
the Dunlops worked well enough
for me and JD to break away
from the field," Gerloff said after
Saturday's race. "I'm just happy
to be on the box since you never
know what can happen in these
conditions, but today it played
out in our favor."
Team H35 Honda's Benny
Solis finished third for the third
successive race, the Californian
barely holding off the Super-
stock 600s of Connor Blevins
and New Zealander Shane Rich-
ardson. Jody Barry was fourth
overall on his supersport-spec
Kawasaki with Jason Ferrell
the front three there for a little
while. Once I caught up, with
him being on a superbike, I
couldn't make the pass."
SUPERSPORT
Monster Energy/Yamalube/
Y.E.S./Graves Motorsports' Gar-
rett Gerloff won his third Supers-
port race of the season, beating
his teammate and championship
rival JD Beach by 3.3 seconds
in a race that was run on a wet
but drying racetrack. Saturday's
win put Gerloff nine points clear
of Beach in the championship
after six races.
"Tricky conditions today, the
points over Lewis with Scholtz a
further six points behind in third.
"That was my strongest race
of the season for sure, just
because this is the first race I've
won straight up," Lewis said. "I
knew coming into the weekend
that this is one of my favorite
tracks and I went good here last
year on the old bike. This bike is
a lot better, so I was looking for-
ward to the weekend. I qualified
really well, which helped me a lot
because I could break away with
the fast guys. From the begin-
ning, I just tried to stick with the
Superbikes and it worked pretty
well because Herrin stayed with
Beach came back
and beat Gerloff
in race two.
