ROAD RACE
MOTOAMERICA AMA/FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 4 / JUNE 1-3, 2018
ROAD AMERICA / ELKHART LAKE, WISCONSIN
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tussle.
Herrin, spectacular as ever on
his bucking and sliding Yamaha,
was trying all he knew to make
amends for his race-one defeat.
He ducked up the inside of
Beaubier early in the lap but ran
wide with three corners to go.
Beaubier got back underneath
only for Herrin to attack again
on the last corner and again run
slightly wide, the neat and tidy
Beaubier sneaking back in front
for the win by 0.195 seconds.
Roger Hayden had his best
race since round one with a
third-place finish, heading Elias
and Bobby Fong (Quicksilver/
Lexin Moto/Hudson Motorcycles
you're thinking, 'Screw the guy
behind me. I don't care about
him.' And then when you hit him,
he cries about it. It's really dan-
gerous. Nobody's going to say
anything about it, but I am."
Beaubier's teammate Garrett
Gerloff was five seconds adrift
of the battling trio at the flag,
besting Jake Lewis (M4 Ecstar
Suzuki) and Roger Hayden (Yo-
shimura Factory Suzuki Racing)
rounding out the top five.
Race two was red-flagged ear-
ly after Mathew Scholtz (Westby
Racing Yamaha) went down, and
the restart boiled down to an all-
Yamaha affair, with Beaubier and
Herrin engaging in a race-long
He had a perfect view of Elias'
crash, and had his own strong
views about it.
"Once I got up to those guys
and I saw Toni go under Cam
into turn one, I was like, 'that
was pretty dirty,'" said Herrin.
"Then I passed Toni into the
chicane and went to the left, and
then kind of squirted out to the
right and had the pass on him.
Then he [Elias] just closes the
door and leaves nowhere to go,
so you just run out of space.
"That's exactly what he did to
Cam into Canada Corner. He
goes on the brakes, Cam's got
the pass. He [Elias] released
the brakes, closes the door, and
Valentin Debise's
(53) return to AMA
competition couldn't
have gone better
with a memorable
race-one win.
