Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles
Issue link: https://magazine.cyclenews.com/i/842139
ROAD RACE ROUND 5 / JUNE 24-25, 2017 UTAH MOTORSPORTS CAMPUS / SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH P102 2017 MOTOAMERICA his second podium finish of the season in Superstock with his ninth-place finish. Gillim rounded out the top 10. "Things worked out great," Scholtz said. "I didn't get the best jump off the start, and I got shuffled back a bit, but then there was a really long train of bikes and no one really started gapping anyone, yet. I kind of saw that Bobby crashed out and I knew that he had the outright pace. Unfortunately for him, once I saw he bailed out it kind of left the door open for me, and I'm pretty sure I had Jake right there following me, but some- thing must have happened to him. I looked back with probably about six laps left and I saw that I had a really solid gap. From there I just kind of conserved the tires and maintained the gap, and kept running at a comfort- able pace." Saturday's winner Fong crashed out of the lead while battling with Beaubier for fourth in the Superbike class. After five of 10 rounds (and 20 races), Elias now leads the championship by 30 points over Hayden, 210-180. Beaubier is third with 162 points. SUPERSPORT On Saturday, Beach had two very fast opening laps, which led to the Supersport win, while his teammate Garrett Gerloff struggled to find a way around M4 Ecstar Suzuki's Valentin Debise. After two laps, Beach crashed and destroyed the bike. The bike that we repaired I was just kind of struggling with." Hayes finished fourth after running with the lead duo for most of the race. He ultimately succumbed to Beaubier before finishing a lonely fourth. Herrin finished fifth after a near race-long battle with Kyle Wyman (Motovation USA/Lucas Oil/KWR), the pair separated by just 0.155 of a second. Seventh place went to Scholtz, the South African taking the Bazzaz Superstock 1000 win in the process. It was Scholtz's third win of the season and gives him a 17-point lead in the Bazzaz Superstock 1000 Championship over Lewis, who finished eighth and second in the Superstock category. Bryce Prince earned sure, so we made some chang- es and the bike was working a lot better today." Third place Beaubier got back on the podium. He started slowly and finished lap one in sixth place, and by the time he got to third he couldn't make much of a dent in the lead the two Suzukis had established. He ended up just a tick over six-and- a-half seconds behind. "It's nice to get a podium after how horrible the last two days were," Beaubier said. "It's frustrating, honestly. I started out Friday practice feeling great. The first five, six, seven laps I was thinking 'alright, this is going to be a good weekend.' I just had a good flow with the bike and a decent time right away on the hard tire, and then boom, I Bobby Fong won Saturday's Superstock 1000 race but crashed out of contention in race two.