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CHAMPIONSHIP VOL. 55 ISSUE 22 JUNE 5, 2018 P89 In the championship, Beach is sitting pretty on 140 to Gillim's 97, West sits third on 79 from Braeden Ortt at 60 and McFad- den fifth with 59. Junior Cup With more parity measures put in place by MotoAmerica, there was a good spread of manufac- turers at the pointy end of the Ju- nior Cup at Road America. Race one went to KTM's Alex Du- mas—his fourth win of the year. The French Canadian finished a massive eight seconds clear of Kawasaki's Ashton Yates, who, in turn, was 10 seconds ahead of Sean Ungvarsky (KTM Or- ange Brigade/Ghilliman Racing RC390). Ungvarsky headed a four-rider freight train to take third from Attack Performance/ Herrin Compound Yamaha rider Gavin Anthony, MP13 Racing Yamaha's Cory Ventura and RiderzLaw Racing Yamaha rider Jackson Blackmon. Race two saw Yates do a Dumas and streak clear to a first and I knew I had competi- tion right behind me. I checked out the big screen on the side of the track and saw he was a bit further back, so I knew that was my chance. I pushed and kept my head down to the finish line. "This win means so much to me. I want to thank my crew for waiting for me." Third went to Rickdiculous Racing Yamaha's Hayden Gillim from Cory West (TSE Racing Yamaha) and Bryce Prince (Excelsus Print Solutions/KWR Yamaha) rounding out the top five. Beach got his revenge in race two but only just, as he took a 0.037-second win over Debise with Gillim, once again, third from West and Nick McFadden (M4 medAge Suzuki) making it two Suzukis in the top five. "I was riding hard and I couldn't make any kind of gap at all," said Beach. "Every time he did draft by me, he had some speed. It was a lot of fun racing. We were racing hard." Yamaha YZF-R1) in an excellent ride to fifth. In the championship, Beau- bier leaps to the front on 153 to Elias' 151, Herrin sits third on 115, Scholtz fourth at 105 and Lewis fifth with 77. Supersport Three months ago, Valentin Debise suffered one of the big- gest crashes of his life when he high-sided out of the lead of the Daytona 200, fracturing his L3 and L4 lumbar vertebrae. The Frenchman showed absolutely no ill effects of the accident on his return to MotoAmerica competition, storming to the Su- perpole win and taking a memo- rable victory over JD Beach by 0.337 of a second in race one at the same venue in which he scored his debut MotoAmerica victory in 2016. "Once we were here, I thought maybe I could make a plan, and maybe I could win at the end," Debise said. "That's exactly what happened. I was in iii My Own Race: 31 GARRETT GERLOFF 3-6 SUPERBIKE "I'm pretty disappointed," Gerloff said at the end of race one. "I feel like I had the pace to be right there; I just have to figure out how to race at a track like this with a bunch of straight- aways, a bunch of drafting and stuff like that. But I felt good and the bike felt good. We didn't get to use one of the compounds on the rear tires that I think we wanted to use, so I noticed a little bit of a difference from qualifying to the race and I had to kind of get used to that. We haven't raced in a month, so that's kind of the biggest thing." 95 ROGER HAYDEN 5-3 SUPERBIKE "It felt great to get back on the podium," Hayden said after Sunday's race. "I felt like I had a chance to win today, but I made a couple of mistakes late in the race that caused me to fall back a bit. Still, it's a good boost to my season to get back to running up front. I feel like I've finally got the season started and I hope to be up there regularly the rest of the year."