Race Results Presented by Trackside Suspension & Engineering (TSE):
Dunlop Championship at Road America
MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing Series
Road America
Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
June 3, 2017
Motul Superbike/Bazzaz Superstock 1000 Race One Overall Results (all on Dunlop tires):
1. Cameron Beaubier (Yam YZF-R1), Superbike, 13 laps, Total Race Time 29:06.785, Best Lap Time 2:13.116
2. Toni Elias (Suz GSX-R1000), Superbike, -0.005 second, 2:13.251
3. Roger Hayden (Suz GSX-R1000), Superbike, -0.153, 2:13.290
4. Josh Herrin (Yam YZF-R1), Superbike, -12.412 seconds, 2:13.983
5. Jake Lewis (Suz GSX-R1000), Superstock 1000, -12.863, 2:14.300
6. Bobby Fong (Kaw ZX-10R), Superstock 1000, -13.396, 2:14.336
7. Mathew Scholtz (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, -13.439, 2:14.244
8. Jake Gagne (Hon CBR1000RR SP2), Superbike, -30.871, 2:15.339
9. Danny Eslick (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, -43.465, 2:15.698
10. Bryce Prince (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, -49.036, 2:16.958
11. Larry Pegram (BMW S1000RR), Superbike, -51.353, 2:16.988
12. Hayden Gillim (Suz GSX-R1000), Superstock 1000, -52.834, 2:17.103
13. David Anthony (Kaw ZX-10R), Superstock 1000, -60.371, 2:16.949
14. Chris Peris (Yam YZF-R1), Superbike, -72.205, 2:18.609
15. Max Flinders (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, -72.580, 2:18.097
16. Sean Dwyer (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, -113.428, 2:21.249
17. Dr. Jeffrey Purk DDS (Yam YZF-R1), Superbike, -117.987, 2:21.577
18. Mathew Orange (Suz GSX-R1000), Superbike, -1 lap, 2:23.900
19. Stefan Dolipski (BMW S1000RR), Superstock 1000, -1 lap, 2:26.119
20. Martin Biernacki (BMW S1000RR), Superstock 1000, DNF, 2:59.225
21. Garrett Schneiderman (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, DNF
22. Josh Hayes (Yam YZF-R1), Superbike, DNS, crashed on sighting lap
Bazzaz Superstock 1000 Race One Results (all on Dunlop tires):
1. Jake Lewis (Suz GSX-R1000), Superstock 1000, -12.863, 2:14.300
2. Bobby Fong (Kaw ZX-10R), -0.533 second, 2:14.336
3. Mathew Scholtz (Yam YZF-R1), -0.576, 2:14.244
4. Danny Eslick (Yam YZF-R1), -30.602 seconds, 2:15.698
5. Bryce Prince (Yam YZF-R1), -36.173, 2:16.958
6. Hayden Gillim (Suz GSX-R1000), -39.971, 2:17.103
7. David Anthony (Kaw ZX-10R), -47.508, 2:16.949
8. Max Flinders (Yam YZF-R1), -59.717, 2:18.097
9. Sean Dwyer (Yam YZF-R1), -100.565, 2:21.249
10. Stefan Dolipski (BMW S1000RR), -1 lap, 2:26.119
11. Martin Biernacki (BMW S1000RR), DNF, 2:59.225
12. Garrett Schneiderman (Yam YZF-R1), DNF
Motul Superbike Championship Point Standings (after 7 of 18 races):
1. Elias, 135 points
2. Beaubier, 130
3. Hayden, 120
4. Fong, 75
5. Hayes, 69
6. TIE, Herrin/Lewis, 62
8. Scholtz, 60
9. Eslick, 47
10. Kyle Wyman, 45
11. Gagne, 43
12. Gillim, 33
13. Prince, 26
14. Anthony, 18
15. Flinders, 11
16. Sylvain Barrier, 9
17. Jason DiSalvo, 7
18. TIE, Pegram/Cameron Petersen, 5
20. Frankie Babuksa, 4
Bazzaz Superstock 1000 Championship Point Standings (after 7 of 18 races):
1. Fong, 140 points
2. Lewis, 127
3. Scholtz, 121
4. Eslick, 99
5. Gillim, 78
6. Prince, 67
7. Flinders, 58
8. Kosinski, 37
9. Anthony, 18
10. TIE, Frankie Babuska/Tyler O’Hara, 17
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More, from a press release issued by MotoAmerica:
Beaubier Wins A Thriller At Road America
Gerloff Takes Supersport Race
ELKHART LAKE, WI (June 3, 2017) – Just .153 of a second separated the top three finishers in today’s Motul Superbike race in the Dunlop Championship at Road America with Monster
Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing’s Cameron Beaubier taking victory over Yoshimura Suzuki’s Toni Elias and Roger Hayden by just .005 of a second and .153 of a second, respectively, in the closest race of the 2017 season thus far.
The race was close and so now is the championship as Beaubier is within five points of Elias after seven races with what was his second victory of the season and his first since race one at Road Atlanta. Hayden, who was in the battle for victory for the duration, is now 15 points behind Elias in third place in the title chase.
The race was full of drama and it began on the sighting lap when four-time AMA Superbike Champion Josh Hayes spectacularly highsided his Yamaha R1, the bike catching fire and Hayes hobbling away, uninjured but badly beaten.
When the flag dropped, it was Hayden in the lead until Beaubier took a turn at the front on the seventh of 13 laps. Elias led for the first time on the 10th lap and he led from there until the final corner when Beaubier snuck up the inside. From there it was the high-speed run up the hill to the checkered flag and Beaubier got there first, albeit by just .005 of a second. Hayden was a shadow third.
For defending two-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Beaubier this win was number two on the season and the 21st Superbike win of his career.
“That was such a fun race, just clean, hard, fun racing between all three of us (Toni Elias and Roger Hayden),” Beaubier said. “It was awesome. Going into turn five I got my doors blown off by those guys and it really woke me up. It was a crazy race. It felt so good to stand on that top step of the podium again since it’s been quite a few races since I grabbed a win. Big thanks to my team, they’ve been working really hard, and the R1 works great here at Road America.”
Was the move in the final corner planned?
“I felt like I had some strengths and some weaknesses compared to these guys and the final corner I believe was one of my strengths, so when Toni bobbled and got close to the grass I knew that was my chance,” Beaubier said. “I was able to stay close enough to Toni in the final section and got the job done.”
Elias saw his points lead get cut in half with his sixth podium finish of the season, but he was still relatively pleased with how the day went.
“After the mistake and crash I had this morning it was nice to walk away with second today,” Elias said. “I left the door open in the final corner and got on the gas to slow, allowing Cameron (Beaubier) to come up the inside of me. We lost by nearly nothing at the finish line, but we still lost at the end of the day. If you take the right side of the track like I did, it changes to much, which causes you to lose valuable time like I did.”
For Hayden the third-place finish came just 12 days after the death of his brother Nicky and a few hours after his lap of honor kicked off a 69-second moment of silence.
“I thought maybe I could go faster when I was in the lead, it seemed like I was kind of stuck in one speed and once these guys got by me I was able to pick it up,” Hayden said. “It was just hard because everyone was breaking so deep. I tried to get close enough to them on the last lap, thinking Cameron (Beaubier) was going to go up the inside of Toni (Elias) where he did, but I hit a little bit of a neutral. All in all, it was a good race, it’s nice to be back at the race track and that race was the most fun I have had in several weeks. It felt good to just be battling at the front and going for the win.”
Hayden said his therapy comes from being on the bike.
“The only therapeutic part of being back at the track is while I am on my bike and don’t have my phone,” Hayden said. “I know everyone means well, but during the signings and pit party with the fans everyone keeps telling me they are sorry for my loss. I just want to focus and not think about, but I wish Sunday night I could just thank everyone and talk to them for all of the support I have received. It’s just how it is. Nicky [Hayden] and my family are well liked and loved by a lot of people in the sport. I was worried coming into the weekend, not knowing how I would be, but I was able to block everything out on the track and put in a good run.”
Fourth place in today’s first of two Motul Superbike races went to Helmet Sounds/Western Services/Meen Motorsports’ Josh Herrin just .451 of a second clear of fifth-placed Jake Lewis, who was the Bazzaz Superstock 1000 winner on his M4 ECSTAR Suzuki.
With his second Bazzaz Superstock 1000 win of the season, Lewis topped Quicksilver Latus Motors Kawasaki’s Bobby Fong by a tick over half a second. Yamalube/Westby Racing’s Mathew Scholtz was right on Fong at the line, finishing seventh overall and third in the Bazzaz Superstock 1000 class.
Genuine Broaster Chicken Honda’s Jake Gagne, TOBC Racing’s Danny Eslick and Helmet Sounds/Western Services/Meen Motorsports’ Bryce Prince rounded out the top 10.
Fong now leads the Bazzaz Superstock 1000 championship by 13 points over Lewis with Scholtz a further six points behind in third.
“That was my strongest race of the season for sure, just because this is the first race I’ve won straight up,” Lewis said. “I knew coming into the weekend that this is one of my favorite tracks and I went good here last year on the old bike. This bike is a lot better, so I was looking forward to the weekend. I qualified really well, which helped me a lot because I could breakaway with the fast guys. From the beginning, I just tried to stick with the Superbikes and it worked pretty well because (Josh) Herrin stayed with the front three there for a little while. Once I caught up, with him being on a Superbike, I couldn’t make the pass.”
Monster Energy/Yamalube/Y.E.S./Graves Motorsports’ Garrett Gerloff won his third Supersport race of the season, beating his teammate and championship rival JD Beach by 3.3 seconds in a race that was run on a wet but drying racetrack. The win puts Gerloff nine points clear of Beach in the championship points chase after six races.
“Tricky conditions today, the track dried out really fast, but the Dunlops worked well enough for me and JD [Beach] to break away from the field,” Gerloff said. “I’m just happy to be on the box since you never know what can happen in these conditions, but today it played out in our favor. Like JD said, I knew Nicky (Hayden) a little bit, not as well as he did, but I just want to give his family my thoughts and prayers while they’re going through this difficult time.”
Team H35 Honda’s Benny Solis finished third for the third successive race, the Californian barely holding off the Superstock 600s of Connor Blevins and New Zealander Shane Richardson. Jody Barry was fourth overall on his Supersport-spec Kawasaki with Jason Ferrell and JC Camacho giving chase. Camacho would end up third in the Superstock 600 class.
M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Valentin Debise, who sits fourth in the Superstock title chase, ended up 14th after making a bad tire choice and opting for slicks, front and rear.
It wasn’t a good day for Superstock 600 points leader Michael Gilbert or his rival in the series, Nick McFadden. McFadden suffered a broken collarbone in a crash on Saturday morning and Gilbert crashed out of the race on the first lap so neither scored championship points.
Gilbert now leads Jason Aguilar by just four points with McFadden nine points behind. Aguilar finished fourth in the Superstock 600 class today.
“It was a very difficult race, I wanted to be on a DOT in these conditions, but I think we made the right choice,” Blevins said. “Starting from the sixth row made it tough, but I was able to fight and make it work in the end. It was slippery and everything out there, but overall it turned out well. I made a lot of moves early and was able to get into the top five by the end of the first lap and slowly picked guys off.”
The KTM RC Cup ended up as a runaway victory for points leader Benjamin Smith, though it didn’t look like it. Smith battled for nearly the duration with Jackson Blackmon, but his Quarterley Racing/On Track Development teammate had jumped the start and was later penalized for speeding in pit lane. Blackmon was penalized and credited with ninth place. Alex Dumas also jumped the start and was penalized 20 seconds for failing to heed to the ride-through penalty. He ended up 14th.
“I saw a couple laps into the race that Jackson [Blackmon] had a ride-through penalty, it took a little bit for me to see it, but on the pit board they put that I was nine seconds ahead, which is when I realized what his penalty was and I was technically ahead of him,” Smith said. “Most of the race I just managed out front and tried to control the gap that Jackson (Blackmon) and I had. It was a lot of fun riding with him, we know each other really well and it was a really good time.”
Gavin Anthony ended up second on the Anthony Racing KTM, the 14-year-old earning his first career MotoAmerica podium. He barely beat Draik Beauchamp and his Quarterley Racing/On Track Development KTM. Jake Leahey and Sergio Rodriguez III rounded out the top five.
More, from a press release issued by Team Hammer:
JAKE LEWIS AND TEAM HAMMER WIN AT ROAD AMERICA
Team Hammer tallied its fifth victory of the young 2017 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing Championship season on Saturday at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
That win was delivered in emphatic, wire-to-wire fashion by M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Jake Lewis. The rising star qualified fastest among all Superstock 1000 competitors and powered away cleanly from his position on the inside of Row 2 on the combined Superbike/STK1000 grid.
From there, the Kentuckian was never headed by any of his Superstock rivals. He controlled the contest from the front throughout while pushing the Superbike pilot ahead to take the checkered flag with the class win and a combined class top five.
The victory is Lewis’ second of the season aboard the rapidly developing 2017 Suzuki GSX-R1000. He is currently second in the STK1000 points race on the strength of six podiums in seven races and a worst result of fourth.
“It’s an amazing feeling because it feels like I really earned this one,” Lewis said. “I got a really good start, but that’s because I qualified so well. I tried to hang with the Superbike guys and pull a little gap on the guys behind me. They were inching back late, but I knew where they were the whole time. I just played it smart and brought home a win for the team. When you work that hard and don’t give up, that’s what happens. I want to keep these wins coming. Thanks to my M4 ECSTAR Suzuki team.
“Honestly, the last week and a half have been so tough with everything going on back home. I’d like to dedicate this win to the Hayden family and especially Earl. I emailed him yesterday morning and told him I would try to get a couple wins for them this weekend. Nicky was like a brother to me. It’s been tough. Halfway through the race I told myself I wasn’t going to give up. Nicky pushed me to my best, so this one is for him.”
Lewis’ 600cc-mounted teammates had a more difficult Saturday as the elements and luck conspired against them.
The team took a hit early on Saturday when M4 medAge Suzuki’s Nick McFadden crashed late in qualifying and fractured his right collarbone. Prior to the fall, McFadden led a session on Friday and looked capable of battling for yet another Superstock 600 win.
On and off rain showers then resulted in a once-stopped and shortened Supersport/Superstock 600 race that was held in tricky wet-to-dry conditions.
With the sun shining above and the track wet below, the team elected to gamble big and go with dry tires, hoping the conditions would come around to their set-ups. While they ultimately did, the rate of improvement was slower than hoped and the Team Hammer contingent simply ran out of laps to do maximum damage.
Despite clocking the second fastest lap of the race on the final lap, M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Valentin Debise crossed the line in 14th overall (7th among Supersport-mounted riders).
Debise, who qualified second just 0.008 off pole and who won at Road America last season, is aiming to make amends in Sunday’s Race 2.
It was a similar story for M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Brandon Cleland and M4 Rickdiculous Racing Suzuki’s Daytona Anderson. STK600-mounted Cleland still managed to finish in the points in 15th, while Anderson came home 24th overall (ninth among Supersport-spec mounted competitors).
Team Hammer will be back in action on Sunday at Road America, with Lewis looking to turn the double and the middleweight men eager to make up for an unlucky Saturday.
About Team Hammer
The 2017 season marks Team Hammer’s 37th consecutive year of operating as a professional road racing team. Racebikes built and fielded by Team Hammer have won 66 AMA Pro and MotoAmerica National races, have finished on AMA Pro and MotoAmerica National podiums 165 times and have won five AMA Pro National Championships, as well as two FIM South American Championships. The team has also won 134 endurance races overall (including seven 24-hour races) and 13 Overall WERA National Endurance Championships with Suzuki motorcycles, and holds the U.S. record for mileage covered in a 24-hour race. The team also competed in the televised 1990s Formula USA National Championship, famously running “Methanol Monster” GSX-R1100 Superbikes fueled by methanol, and won four F-USA Championships.
More, from a press release issued by Yamaha:
Beaubier Snatches The Cheese With A Photo-Finish Win In MotoAmerica Superbike Race 1 At Road America; Gerloff & Beach Go 1-2 In Supersport Race 1
Elkhart Lake, WI – June 4, 2017 – Defending Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier put the power of his #1 Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing YZF-R1 on full display in Saturday’s MotoAmerica Superbike Race 1 at Road America, as he would not be denied from winning the 22nd Superbike race of his blossoming career and third victory in a row at “America’s National Park of Speed.”
Cameron’s teammate Josh Hayes unfortunately didn’t fare quite as well. The four-time Superbike Champ crashed on the sighting lap after his #4 R1 uncharacteristically launched him off. As a result, he was unable to start the race.
Josh commented, “I went through a section of the track that was shaded by trees, and I couldn’t see that it was damp on the raceline till it was too late. It happened so fast that there was nothing I could do. I’m beat up, and I feel like I was hit by a bus. But I’ve got my trainer Riggs [Klicka] here with me, and we’re working on a plan. My intention is to ride tomorrow.”
After his breathtaking, last-lap, last-corner, right-at-the-checkers win, Cameron said. “That was such a fun race. It was good, hard, clean racing between the three of us. It was a crazy, really good race. It felt so good to stand on that top step again. My Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing R1 works so well around here, and I love this place. I was able to stay close to Toni [Elias] in the final section, get past him, and make it stick.”
2017 MotoAmerica Superbike Standings 6/3/17
Pos.RiderPoints
1Toni Elias – Suzuki135
2Cameron Beaubier – Yamaha130
3Roger Hayden – Suzuki120
5Josh Hayes – Yamaha69
In Saturday’s Supersport race, Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Extended Service/Graves/Yamaha teammates Garrett Gerloff and JD Beach made the decision to race on full-rain tires versus some other competitors who chose slicks. The wet track and red-flag-shortened race were the combination that gave Garrett and JD an advantage, and they were able to finish 1-2, with Garrett notching his third win of the season and JD reaching the podium for the sixth time this year. It was another storybook finish for the team and their 2017 Yamaha YZF-R6 machines.
“We made the right tire choice,” JD said. “I needed to go with what the points leader was doing, and that’s Garrett. He chose rains, so we did, too. I’m glad it worked out, and it was good to get some points. We’ve got another race tomorrow. It’s good to be back with my racing family this weekend. It’s been really tough losing Nicky [Hayden], and I was proud to wear his helmet today. I wish I could have gotten the win for him, but there’s another race tomorrow, and I’ll be trying my best.”
Garrett commented, “They were tricky conditions for sure today, but the Dunlop rain tires held up really well. I’m really happy to be up on the box. Like JD said, my thoughts and prayers go out to Nicky’s family and friends at this difficult time. I knew Nicky a little bit, and he definitely set the standard for all of us American riders who want to race in the World Championship some day.”
2017 MotoAmerica Supersport Standings 6/3/17
Pos.RiderPoints
1Garrett Gerloff – Yamaha131
2JD Beach – Yamaha122
3Benny Solis – Honda85
Sunday’s Supersport Race 2 from Road America will start at 2:25 PM CST, and Superbike Race 2 is at 3:30 PM CST. Both races will be broadcast live on beIN Sports.
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