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races) remaining in the series.
Debise finished third, match-
ing his effort from Saturday. Solis
again had a lonely ride to fourth.
The battle for fifth overall was
fought out until the very end
with Team MG55's Michael
Gilbert getting the spot and
victory in the Superstock 600
race. The win was Gilbert's third
of the year and it allowed him
to gain some points on cham-
pionship leader Jason Aguilar.
Aguilar ended up fifth in the
Superstock 600 class on
Sunday and he leads the
standings by 14 points, 191-177.
Beach took second but
barely, finishing just ahead of
Valentin Debise (M4 Ecstar
Suzuki). Fourth was Benny Solis
(Team H35 Honda).
Fifth overall was Super-
stock 600 winner, Canadian
Braeden Ortt (Tuned Racing).
It was his first win in the class.
Second was class points
leader Jason Aguilar.
On Sunday, Gerloff did it
again, this time winning by
8.004 seconds over Beach after
getting off to a fourth-place start.
By the third lap, he was leading
and running away.
"It feels good after a month
off to come back and feel good
on the bike and feel comfort-
able," Gerloff said. "I felt a lot
better in that race—just every-
thing was clicking real nice. We
made some changes to our bike
yesterday because I knew there
were a few things to improve
for consistency and it definitely
helped today. It's nice to win
again, to get the double."
At the end of the day, Beach
lost five more points to his team-
mate, Gerloff, who now leads
the championship by 14 points,
246-232, with three rounds (six
