MotoAmerica Superbike/Superstock 1000 Race Two Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was stopped by a red flag on lap 17 of 18 due to rain. The results were determined by the running order at the end of lap 15, and Monster Energy Graves Yamaha’s Cameron Beaubier was declared the winner by 0.015 second over Yoshimura Suzuki’s Roger Hayden. Beaubier’s teammate Josh Hayes was a very close third. 

Beaubier now leads Hayes by 18 points in the Championship standings with two races remaining September 11-13 at New Jersey Motorsports Park.

MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North America Road Racing Series

Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Indianapolis, Indiana

August 9, 2015

Provisional Superbike/Superstock 1000 Combined Race Two Results (All on Dunlop tires):

1. Cameron Beaubier (Yamaha), SBK, 15 laps, total race time 24:43.046, best lap time 1:37.994

2. Roger Hayden (Suzuki), SBK, -0.015 second, 1:37.989

3. Josh Hayes (Yamaha), SBK, -0.297, 1:38.028

4. Jake Lewis (Suzuki), SBK, -5.048 seconds, 1:38.207

5. Jake Gagne (Yamaha), STK, -9.882, 1:38.419

6. Josh Day (Yamaha), STK, -15.307, 1:38.850

7. Sheridan Morais (Aprilia), STK, -29.430, 1:38.751

8. Tyler O’Hara (Yamaha), STK, -33.625, 1:39.888

9. Taylor Knapp (Yamaha), STK, -38.503, 1:40.164

10. Chris Ulrich (Suzuki), SBK, -38.985, 1:40.579

11. Elena Myers (Suzuki), SBK, -41.789, 1:40.805

12. Mark Heckles (Yamaha), STK, -46.760, 1:40.701

13. Shane Narbonne (Yamaha), STK, -58.464, 1:40.082

14. Garrick Schneiderman (Yamaha), STK, -65.951, 1:42.074

15. Barrett Long (Yamaha), STK, -67.163, 1:42.054

16. Steve Rapp (BMW), STK, -69.518, 1:39.861, crash

17. Matt Carr (Ducati), STK, -79.819, 1:42.929

18. Eddie Thornton (Aprilia), STK, -82.735, 1:42.739

19. Brad Burns (Suzuki), STK, -14 laps, DNF, 2:51.972

20. Kyle Wyman (Yamaha), STK, DNS

21. Jake Zemke (Ducati), SBK, DNS

22. Max Flinders (Yamaha), STK, DNS 

Superbike Race Two Results:

1. Cameron Beaubier (Yamaha), 15 laps, total race time 24:43.046, best lap time 1:37.994

2. Roger Hayden (Suzuki), -0.015 second, 1:37.989

3. Josh Hayes (Yamaha), -0.297, 1:38.028

4. Jake Lewis (Suzuki), -5.048 seconds, 1:38.207

5. Chris Ulrich (Suzuki), -38.985, 1:40.579

6. Elena Myers (Suzuki), -41.789, 1:40.805

7. Jake Zemke (Ducati), DNS

Superstock Race Two Results:

1. Jake Gagne (Yamaha), total race time 24:52.928, best lap time 1:38.419

2. Josh Day (Yamaha), -5.425, 1:38.850

3. Sheridan Morais (Aprilia), -19.548, 1:38.751

4. Tyler O’Hara (Yamaha), -23.743, 1:39.888

5. Taylor Knapp (Yamaha), -28.621, 1:40.164

6. Mark Heckles (Yamaha), -36.878, 1:40.701

7. Shane Narbonne (Yamaha), -48.582, 1:40.082

8. Garrick Schneiderman (Yamaha), -56.069, 1:42.074

9. Barrett Long (Yamaha), -57.281, 1:42.054

10. Steve Rapp (BMW), -59.636, 1:39.861, crash

11. Matt Carr (Ducati), -69.937, 1:42.929

12. Eddie Thornton (Aprilia), -72.853, 1:42.739

19. Brad Burns (Suzuki), -14 laps, DNF, 2:51.972

20. Kyle Wyman (Yamaha), DNS

22. Max Flinders (Yamaha), DNS 

Superbike Championship Point Standings (After 16 of 18 races):

1. Beaubier, 336 points

2. Hayes, 318

3. Hayden, 245

4. Lewis, 223

5. Myers, 133

6. Bernat Martinez (RIP), 127

7. Ulrich, 124

8. Danny Eslick, 92

9. Chris Fillmore, 82

10. Mathew Orange, 40

Superstock 1000 Championship Point Standings (After 16 of 18 races):

1. Gagne, 294 points

2. Knapp, 251

3. Heckles, 208

4. Day, 171

5. O’Hara, 159

6. Morais, 148

7. Narbonne, 112

8. Devon McDonough, 96

9. Long, 87

10. Dustin Dominguez, 55

More, from a press release issued by MotoAmerica:

Beaubier Takes Control With Indy Double

Monster Energy Yamaha Rider Taking 18-Point Lead To Series Finale

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, AUG. 9 – If Cameron Beaubier wins his first MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North America Superbike Championship at New Jersey Motorsports Park in September, he will likely look back to his doubleheader sweep of the two races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the turning point. He may also want to invite Roger Hayden over for dinner a few times just to say thanks.

Beaubier came into the penultimate round of the MotoAmerica Championship at the Brickyard tied with his Monster Energy Graves Yamaha teammate Josh Hayes for the championship points lead. With his two wins at Indy, he leaves with an 18-point lead with just the two New Jersey races remaining, September 11-13. And it’s an 18-point lead because Hayden and his Yoshimura Suzuki hounded Beaubier in the pair of races, coming up just short in both, but taking away points from Hayes. So now, based on how these three have dominated the season thus far, the scenario for New Jersey is an interesting one.

And the bottom line is this: Hayes may want to start sending flowers to Hayden. If Hayes wins both races and Beaubier finishes second in both, Beaubier will take his first career Superbike title by eight points. If Hayes wins both and Beaubier slips to third in both, the pair will end the series in a tie. And the championship will go to Hayes because he would end the season with 10 race wins to Beaubier’s eight.

Beaubier ended up beating Hayden by .015 of a second in Sunday’s Superbike race – a race that was red flagged with a lap to go because of rain and wet conditions. When the running order was reverted back a lap, Beaubier was ahead. Barely. Hayes was also in the battle today after not being a factor on Saturday. He was .297 of a second behind at the finish.

Fourth place in today’s Superbike race went to Hayden’s Yoshimura Suzuki teammate Jake Lewis, the 18-year-old Kentuckian besting Roadrace Factory’s Jake Gagne by some four seconds. Gagne, however, was the best of the Superstock 1000s and earned his 10th victory of the season.

Sixth overall and second in the Superstock 1000 class went to Josh Day, the Westby Racing rider finishing well clear of HSBK Aprilia’s Sheridan Morais to earn his sixth podium finish of the season.

Tyler O’Hara rode his Chisum/Motul Racing Yamaha to eighth overall and fourth in Superstock 1000 with TOBC Racing’s Taylor Knapp and GEICO Suzuki’s Ulrich rounding out the top 10. Ulrich was fifth in the Superbike class.

“I’m definitely really pleased,” Beaubier said after his eighth win of the season. “Eighteen points is a decent gap, but I know how good this guy (Hayes) is at New Jersey so it’s going to be a pretty stressful-type weekend. I’m hoping for dry weather there and just do the best I can. This weekend was awesome. This race was pretty tough the last few laps when it was raining. I think all of us were riding a little timid and it seemed like whoever was in front was just going a little bit slower because they didn’t know how much grip there was. It was easier to ride around in second than to lead in those conditions. I knew the last couple of laps, it was raining pretty good, and I had a feeling they were going to throw the red flag so I was doing everything I could just to stay in front just in case it would go back a lap or whatever – if it didn’t go to the checkered.”

With eight rounds and 16 races in the books, Beaubier leads Hayes by the aforementioned 18 points, 336-318. Hayden, who has three seconds in the last three races, is third with 245 points – 22 points clear of his teammate Lewis. Elena Myers is now fifth in the Superbike standings with 133 points.

Gagne’s double win at Indy gives him a 43-point cushion over Knapp, 294-251, and with 50 points up for grabs in New Jersey he’s almost guaranteed his first MotoAmerica Superstock 1000 title. Brit Mark Heckles is a comfortable third in the series with 208 points.

More, from a press release issued by Geiger Media Global:

Good day at Indy for GEICO Suzuki rider Chris Ulrich; improved lap times net another top-five finish

INDIANAPOLIS (Aug. 9) — Chris Ulrich and his GEICO Suzuki team scored another top-five finish in the final day of Superbike/Stock 1000 racing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. After experiencing some setbacks on Saturday, Ulrich and his team turned it around to leave the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix on a high note.

Ulrich started 16th on the grid and gained three positions on the first lap. Lap times improved for the GEICO Suzuki team by one full second over Saturday’s 18-lap race on the flat 2.5-mile road course. The race was halted due to rain with two laps remaining and Ulrich finished in fifth place, his third top-five in four races.

“It was quite a bit better today. I changed my routine at the start because of what happened yesterday,” said Ulrich, who was assessed a drive-through penalty during yesterday’s race for jumping on the start. “I didn’t bring my revs up until the lights came on, where yesterday I had my revs up a little bit too high when the lights came on and kinda got trigger-happy. I got a really good start and got a couple guys right off the bat. That was pretty key in the opening corners. From there I just started picking people off, one by one, and improved my lap times by a second consistently.

“The team made a few good changes right before the race. We’d been a little bit behind the eight ball all weekend. We struggled with some engine-management stuff right off the bat. We made some changes to the engine-braking strategy that really allowed me to carry a little bit more momentum. Yesterday it felt like it was causing the bike to lose traction right in the middle of the corner. We worked on that after this morning’s warm-up. We made a change to the front end, which allowed me to position the bike better and it showed up in the lap times consistently. I kept moving up and moving up. Fifth place in Superbike — you can’t be too bummed about that.

“You have to keep moving forward. You always have to keep grinding it out every week, no matter if you have a good day or a bad day. That’s what we did this weekend and I am really proud of the team. Everyone on the team made the right decisions this weekend. We all kept positive and moved up. I’m really proud of the GEICO Suzuki team. Without those guys, I couldn’t have done it.”

Teams watched the skies as a storm front rolled in earlier that predicted. Ulrich was asked if he felt robbed by rain as the race concluded before its scheduled distance.

“I think race control made the right decision. It was getting wetter,” Ulrich said. “Indianapolis isn’t a typical track. It’s a Formula 1 circuit and it has excellent asphalt. That’s why we’re so happy to come here and race in front of the huge crowd. We still had good grip. I think it looked scarier than it was but it was getting quite wet. It was good, for safety reasons, to stop the race.”

Looking ahead to the series’ season finale in New Jersey, Ulrich and team are confident and upbeat.

“We went from a great weekend in Laguna Seca to struggling for the first two days here to turning the weekend around,” Ulrich said. “We’re getting better each week, learning more about the Suzuki. You’re developing stuff as you’re racing. I think it’s a confidence boost. I think we learned a lot this weekend.”

More, from a press release issued by Yamaha:

CamBeau Goes Rambo And Gets The Double Win At Indy; Teammate Hayes Podiums Again

Indianapolis, IN – August 9, 2015 – MotoAmerica’s Inaugural Superbike season is one round and two races from its conclusion, and the two Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha Superbike riders Josh Hayes and Cameron Beaubier are now tied in race victories with eight wins apiece. More importantly, Cameron now has an 18-point lead over Josh in the Championship as a result of his two heroic wins on the world stage during MotoGP weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Under skies that threatened to rain at any moment on Sunday, Superbike Race 2 from Indy started in much the same fashion as Saturday’s Race 1 did, with Roger Hayden getting the holeshot, while Cameron and Josh slotted into position in second and third. And, also much the same as Saturday, the race became an exciting duel between Cameron and Roger.

But on Sunday, Josh was much closer to the front and was also very much in contention for the win. With the laps winding down and Roger and Cameron swapping the lead, Josh watched the battle and plotted his move. Meanwhile, raindrops began to fall on the 16-turn, 2.591-mile Indy road course. With only a couple of laps left in the race, and Cameron in the lead, the red flags flew just after Josh moved past Roger into second place. The race was called at that point, but the results reverted back a lap, which created some momentary confusion about the outcome. A photo finish at the stripe showed that Cameron was in the lead by the slimmest of margins, so he took his second win of the weekend, with Roger in second, and Josh in third.

Commenting on his points lead going into the final round of the season at New Jersey Motorsports Park, Cameron said, “18 points is a decent gap, but I know how good Josh is at New Jersey. This race was really tough when it started raining, and it was easier to ride around in second than it was to lead because I could see what Roger was doing and where the wet track was causing problems for him. I definitely got a little lucky in the second race, but I’ll take it. I really didn’t know I’d won until about halfway around the cool-down lap.”

Josh said, “My whole Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha crew worked so hard all weekend long. With all the changes we made over the past couple of days, that was about the third different R1 that I’ve ridden this weekend. We got a lot closer for today’s race, but I still didn’t feel like I had any weapons or areas of the track that I was better in than Cam or Roger.”

The entire Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha Superbike team will take a well-deserved break and get ready for the “Showdown in South Jersey” on the weekend of September 11-13 at New Jersey Motorsports Park.

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