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ROAD RACE MOTOAMERICA AMA/FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 4 / JUNE 1-3, 2018 ROAD AMERICA / ELKHART LAKE, WISCONSIN P90 Twins The Road America Twins race saw a little bit of history as Altus Motorsports Yamaha's Jason Madama became the first Yamaha MT-07 rider to take a class victory after leader Chris Parris (Ghetto Customs Suzuki) ran wide on the final lap. Parrish recovered for second ahead of Dustin Dominguez aboard his Dustin Dominguez Racing Suzuki, the Oklahoman making his return to professional road racing at Road America. "The plan was to just suck into the bubble and wait it out," said ter, with Lee moving into the title lead after former leader Travis Wyman—who had earlier quali- fied on pole—crashed out on the fifth lap unhurt. "This is my first win in Mo- toAmerica since coming here last year, so we're pretty stoked with that," said Richardson. "I just tried to put together the best laps I could, lap by lap. I was waiting for the fight to come, but luckily I got away with it." Lee heads the title race on 60 to Wyman's 50, Richardson on 38, Timothy Bemisderfer on 34 and Stephen Incledon on 26. 7.8-second win over Ventura, Ungvarsky, Anthony and Black- mon, with Jay Newton (AGVS- port America MonkeyMoto Yamaha) and Jamie Astudillo (Quarterley Racing/On Track Development Kawasaki) round- ing out the top seven. Second to seventh place was separated by just 0.173 of a second. Race one winner Dumas failed to finish after crashing on lap two while holding the race lead. "I knew I needed to get to the front and make something hap- pen," said Yates. "I was pushing really hard when I got to the front of the group. I rode my butt off." In the championship, Dumas still leads on 100 to Yates' 98, Ungvarsky third on 79, Ventura fourth with 68 and Anthony fifth on 66. Stock 1000 New Zealander Shane Rich- ardson Jr. got his reward for two years of busting his butt in America with a win at the Stock 1000 class at Road America. Richardson held off Andrew Lee (RidersLaw Racing Kawa- saki) and Andy DiBrino (EDR Performance/DiBrino Racing Yamaha) in the eight-lap encoun- Alex Dumas (23) took a dominant race-one win and looked set to repeat the feat in race two, but crashed out early. Ashton Yates (22) took the win in race two.