Hayden Gillim won MotoAmerica Steel Commander Stock 1000 Race One Saturday at Circuit of The Americas (COTA), in Austin, Texas. Riding his Disrupt Racing Suzuki GSX-R1000R, Gillim pulled away to win the eight-lap race by 8.488 seconds. With his fifth win of the season, Gillim took over the Championship point lead.
Travis Wyman finished a lonely second on his Travis Wyman Racing BMW M 1000 RR, and Kaleb De Keyrel finished third on his Orange Cat Racing BMW M 1000 RR.
De Keyrel’s teammate Ezra Beaubier, the Championship point leader coming into the event, did not start (DNS) the race due to suffering from the stomach flu, according to his father Jeff Beaubier.