Precision Track Days brings you the results of this weekend’s events.
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Sean Dylan Kelly came out on top of a great duel with Cameron Beaubier to earn his career-first MotoAmerica Steel Commander Superbike race win in Race Two Sunday at Circuit of The Americas (COTA), in Austin, Texas.
The former Moto2 World Championship teammates fought down to the final corner of the final lap. There, Kelly dived up the inside of Beaubier on the brakes to take the lead and the victory on his Dunlop-shod EasyHealthPlans.com/TopPro Racing BMW M 1000 RR.
Beaubier tried to cut back underneath Kelly and beat him in the short drag race to the checkered flag, but the Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW rider came up 0.177 second short.
Josh Herrin fought for the lead for the first half of the race, but Herrin decided bringing his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati Panigale V4 R home in third place was the smart move. As a result, Herrin heads into Race Three Sunday afternoon with a 51-point lead in the Championship. If Herrin can finish in front of Beaubier in Race Three he will clinch the 2024 Superbike Championship.
Herrin’s teammate Loris Baz finished a lonely fourth.
Bobby Fong took fifth on his Wrench Motorcycles Yamaha.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Brandon Paasch came out on top of a four-rider battle for sixth.
Attack Performance/Progressive Yamaha’s Cameron Petersen rebounded from a tough Race One to get seventh in Race Two, just behind Paasch and just ahead of his fill-in teammate Xavi Fores in eighth. Beaubier’s teammate JD Beach finished right behind Fores in ninth.
Ashton Yates, riding his Jones Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP, rounded out the top 10 finishers and won the Superbike Cup class.
