Rennie Scaysbrook | April 17, 2016
Monster Energy/Graves Yamaha rider Cameron Beaubier finally took his first race win in his defending season as MotoAmerica Superbike Champion today at Road Atlanta by taking the race two victory after earlier being taken out by teammate Josh Hayes in race one.
Yoshimura Suzuki’s Toni Elias took his third straight win in race one from tammate Roger Hayden and Broaster Chicken Roadrace Factory Yamaha’s Jake Gagne, but crashed out of contention in race two, leaving Beaubier to fend off Hayes and Hayden at the flag with 1.6sec covering the trio.
“I’m really happy to get on the podium and to get a win after the disaster of a weekend we had in COTA and in the first race,” Beaubier said. “All in all, I felt good and it was an awesome race. It was pretty fun dicing back and forth with Josh and I knew Rog was right there behind us too. It seemed like Josh had his spots and there were spots where I knew I was better than him. It felt good to actually pass Josh decently on the brakes too because I’ve struggled with that in the past.”
Hayden leads the Superbike standings on 76 points to Elias’ 75, Hayes third on 52 and Beaubier back in seventh on 38.
HSBK Aprilia’s Claudio Corti and Wheels In Motion/Motosport.com/Meen Motorsports’ Josh Herrin shared the spoils in the Superstock 1000 category.
In the Supersport class, Y.E.S./Graves Motorsports Yamaha’s Garret Gerloff took another win to make it a perfect four from four to head home M4 Sportbike TrackGear.com Suzuki’s Valentin Debise and Graves teammate JD Beach. Gerloff leads the standings on 76 to Debise’s 56 and Beach’s 52.
The Superstock 600 win went to Kyle Wyman Racing’s Travis Wyman, the Las Vegas resident ending up seventh overall and 3.2 seconds ahead of yesterday’s winner Bryce Prince. Xavier Zayat was third on his M4 Sportbike TrackGear.com Suzuki.
The KTM RC Cup also ran its second race of the weekend today and this time AXcess Racing’s Brandon Paasch was able to turn the tables on Anthony Mazziotto III, who beat his fellow New Jersey on Saturday. Paasch passed Mazziotto in the final corner to take the win by .105 of a second. For the second day in a row, Brandon Altmeyer finished third on his Altmeyer Racing KTM RC 390.
SUPERBIKE RACE 1: 1. Toni Elias (Suzuki); 2. Roger Hayden (Suzuki); 3. Jake Gagne (Yamaha); 4. Claudio Corti (Aprilia); 5. Josh Herrin (Yamaha); 6. Bobby Fong (Kawasaki); 7. Taylor Knapp (Yamaha); 8. Hayden Gillim (Yamaha); 9. Sheridan Morais (Yamaha); 10. Kyle Wyman (Yamaha).
SUPERBIKE RACE 2: 1. Cameron Beaubier (Yamaha); 2. Josh Hayes (Yamaha); 3. Roger Hayden (Suzuki); 4. Josh Herrin (Yamaha); 5. Taylor Knapp (Yamaha); 6. Claudio Corti (Aprilia); 7. Bobby Fong (Kawasaki); 8. Jake Gagne (Yamaha); 9. Hayden Gillim (Yamaha); 10. Sheridan Morais (Yamaha).
SUPERSPORT RACE 2: 1. Garrett Gerloff (Yamaha); 2. Valentin Debise (Suzuki); 3. JD Beach (Yamaha); 4. Joe Roberts (Yamaha); 5. Cameron Petersen (Suzuki); 6. Benny Solis Jr. (Honda); 7. Travis Wyman (Yamaha); 8. Bryce Prince (Yamaha); 9. Xavier Zayat (Suzuki); 10. Conner Blevins (Kawasaki).
SUPERSTOCK 600 RACE 2: 1. Travis Wyman (Yamaha); 2. Bryce Prince (Yamaha); 3. Xavier Zayat (Suzuki); 4. Conner Blevins (Kawasaki); 5. Dakota Mamola (Yamaha); 6. JC Camacho (Yamaha); 7. Gage McAllIister (Yamaha); 8. Andy DiBrino (Yamaha); 9. Deion Campbell (Yamaha); 10. Michael Gilbert (Yamaha).
KTM RC CUP RACE 2: 1. Brandon Paasch; 2. Anthony Mazziotto III; 3. Brandon Altmeyer; 4. Jody Barry; 5. Jackson Blackmon; 6. Ashton Yates; 7. Benjamin Smith; 8. Ian Champness; 9. Josh Serne; 10. Sean Ungvarsky.