ROAD RACE
ROUND 5 / JUNE 24-25, 2017
UTAH MOTORSPORTS CAMPUS / SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
P104
2017 MOTOAMERICA
second of the season, as the
two Yamaha men were literally
left in the dust trying to free their
bikes from each other's.
"When I saw the dust I knew
there were only two guys in front
of me, so it was easy to know
who it was," Debise said.
With the top two men in the
championship crashing out,
the podium featured two fresh
faces in Daytona Anderson (M4
Rickdiculous Racing Suzuki)
and Jayson Uribe (Rickdiculous
Racing), the latter in his first-
ever MotoAmerica weekend. For
both it was their first foray onto a
MotoAmerica podium.
Anderson ended up getting
the better of Uribe, who races in
the Spanish Moto2 Champion-
ship, by just 0.843 of a second.
Fourth place went to Aguilar
who took his second straight Su-
overall, but that was good
enough to give him his first
career MotoAmerica victory
in the Superstock 600 class.
The win also moved Aguilar to
within two points of series points
leader Connor Blevins, the Excel
Machine Racing Kawasaki rider
finishing third today.
Second in the Superstock
600 class went to Team MG55's
Michael Gilbert, the Californian
who led the series prior to Road
America now just six points be-
hind Blevins in the title chase.
In Sunday's race, what
seemed inevitable based on
the hard battles the two have
had all season long turned into
reality when Gerloff and Beach
crashed together on the final
lap. The error, which Beach took
full responsibility for, allowed
Debise to take the victory, his
led Gerloff by 2.1 seconds and
that gap would hold steady until
the closing laps when Gerloff
gained ground in traffic. At the
finish line it was Beach by 1.060
seconds.
Debise, meanwhile, faded to
third place and was 24.128 sec-
onds behind at the finish.
"I kind of just went into the
race with the same plan I al-
ways do and tried to get a good
start," Beach said. "I pushed
the first few laps and we had a
really good pace, but I definitely
used up my tires a lot because
towards the end of the race the
bike started to move a lot."
Fourth place went to Team
H35 Honda's Benny Solis over
M4 The 22 Project's Daytona
Anderson.
Aguilar Racing Yamaha's
Jason Aguilar finished sixth
Mathew Scholtz
came away
with Sunday's
Superstock 1000
victory.
