ROAD RACE
ROUND 1 / APRIL 13-15, 2018
ROAD ATLANTA / BRASELTON, GA
P82
doesn't change anything between
JD and I [laughs]. We'll see how
that goes when we get home."
Third place went to Ashton
Yates on his Yates Racing Yama-
ha, who became the first Mo-
toAmerica rider to podium in two
different classes on the same day.
Earlier in the day, Yates had won
the Liqui Moly Junior Cup race on
his Kawasaki Ninja 400.
Anthony Mazziotto III (YCRS/
Mazziotto Racing) and Richie
Escalante (Quicksilver/LEXIN/
Hudson Motorcycles) rounded out
the top five.
Gillim and Beach are tied at the
top of the points tree at 45 apiece,
21 ahead of West who took eighth
in race two.
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them both to restart the race.
Gillim came back hard in a wet
race two on his purple Rickdicu-
lous Racing Yamaha YZF-R6 to
take a commanding 11.796-sec-
ond win after taking the lead from
Beach on lap four.
"I wish I could have put up more
of a fight yesterday with JD there
at the end of the race," Gillim said.
"It would have made it a little bet-
ter show for everybody, but I didn't
have anything for him. I like the
rain. Whenever there's rain in the
forecast, I'm secretly in the back
praying and hoping that it comes
down. Today was awesome. It's
my first win in four years, and it's
on a 600 again, and I am lov-
ing riding this thing. Hopefully it
We've been running into that all
weekend. There are some guys out
there who are making it unsafe for
us, and it's a tough situation. But all
in all, I'm glad to get this win."
For Gillim, second place on
his return to Supersport competi-
tion after running his own Super-
stock 1000 program on a Suzuki
GSX-R1000 last year was a good
result, as he held off West, Nick
McFadden (M4 medAge Suzuki)
and Braeden Ortt (Tuned Racing
Yamaha) at the flag.
Ortt was part of the first red
flag when he crashed and took
Hayden Gillim with him, however,
a second crash involving Cali-
fornian Michael Gilbert bought
out another red flag and allowed
Beach just
managed to hold
off Gillim (69) in
race one, with
Cory West (36)
making a podium
return in third.
