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ROAD RACE ROUND 6 / JULY 7-9, 2017 MAZDA RACEWAY LAGUNA SECA / MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA P82 2017 MOTOAMERICA AMA/FIM NORTH AMERICA ROAD RACING race victory over Aguilar and Richardson. Rounding out the top 10 was Connor Blevins Excel Machine Racing Kawasaki) Braeden Ortt (Tuned Racing Yamaha). In the Supersport champion- ship, Gerloff holds a four-point advantage at 196 to Beach's 192, with Solis third at 127. The Superstock 600 series has Anderson leading with 79 points, one clear of Aguilar, with Blevins third at 72. KTM RC CUP Cory Ventura stamped his au- thority on the KTM RC Cup's single race of the meeting with a dominant performance, taking the victory by 4.7 seconds over JP43 Junior Team rider Alex Dumas and down the Yamahas but they are a factory team and we're a pri- vateer outfit, but we have some stuff to work on for Infineon so hopefully we'll be better there." Fourth to eighth place was a battle royal between eventual fourth-place finisher Daytona An- derson (M4 Rickdiculous Racing Suzuki), Jason Aguilar (Rider- zLaw/ Aguilar Racing Yamaha), New Zealander Shane Richard- son (Palmetto Motorsports Team New Zealand Kawasaki), Nick McFadden (M4 medAge Suzuki) and Team MG55 Yamaha rider Michael Gilbert. The five rid- ers were close for the majority of the race, however Ander- son seemed to have all bases covered, his fourth place overall enough to seal the Superstock turn one but I'd lose it going out," said Beach. "So one lap I decided to back it up into one to try and get better drive, but at the same time Garrett went deeper into one and he pulled a little gap that I just couldn't close with two laps to go." Solis had a lonely ride to the podium in third after his chief protagonist Valentin Debise crashed out on lap one. With over 30 seconds to the top two riders and 14 seconds to the fourth-place battle behind him, Solis arguably had the toughest job on the grid—that of keeping his concentration sharp for the duration of the 19-lap race. "Each of my four podiums this year has been pretty lonely!" So- lis joked. "I want to try and close Cory Ventura broke through for the win at Laguna.