De Alessio Piana / Corsedimoto.com
The first MotoAmerica Superbike race at Road Atlanta is back to normal: Cameron Beaubier dominates, and the Attack Yamaha team takes the double with Jake Gagne 2nd.
The climbs and descents of Road Atlanta further reinforce the class, driving and extraordinary speed of Cameron Beaubier. The third round of the MotoAmerica Superbike season opened with new domination by the four-time champion of the category derived from the series across the Atlantic. Showing up in Georgia looking to make up for last month's naive mistake in Race 2 at Elkhart Lake, "Cam" got back to winning his way: having fun, but above all, dominating.
ALWAYS BEAUBIER
Inaccessible during practice and Superpole, the reigning MotoAmerica champion did what he wanted in the race. Challenged only when the red lights went out by his teammate Jake Gagne, he had already taken the lead on the second lap and did not relinquish it before the checkered flag dropped. It's Beaubier's fourth victory in five races and, in fact, he set the record straight after the Road America mistake, with all the conditions needed to repeat that tomorrow in Race 2.
CRUMBS TO COMPETITION
With magnificent and spectacular riding, Cameron Beaubier legitimizes a MotoAmerica Superbike to historic lows. Nineteen starters, 16 finishing, including only 8 drivers in the same lap (!). So only the crumbs remain for the rivals except for a certain Jake Gagne, second to complete Attack Performance Yamaha's double, but still 5 real seconds (last lap celebrations excluded...) from his teammate. This podium is also the best advertising message for the house with three tuning forks which places three R1s in the first three places, thanks to privateer Mathew Scholtz, third, ahead of the two Suzukis from Team Hammer Inc./M4 of 2017 Champion Toni Elias (4th) and Bobby Fong (5th), returning from victory in Race 2 in the second round of Road America.
Slo-mo style check through the sweeper at @RoadAtlanta with HONOS Superbike stars @BobbyFong50, @cameronbeaubier, @Scholtzm20, @joshherrin, @KyleWyman, and Max Flinders. #StyleForMiles
????: @JamesBallerSC pic.twitter.com/cDVlkYNJQG
— MotoAmerica (@MotoAmerica) August 1
HERRIN AND WYMAN OUT
Two protagonists removed from this race are Josh Herrin and Kyle Wyman. The 2013 AMA Superbike champion had to raise the white flag due to sudden problems with his (old) BMW S1000RRR fielded by Scheibe Racing, part of the pit lane… in an exotic way!
. @joshherrin had a tough day at the office in the first HONOS Superbike race of the weekend at @RoadAtlanta. Herrin had troubles early, got things rolling and then ran into more problems that ended his race early. pic.twitter.com/bNkmg8k6ZW
— MotoAmerica (@MotoAmerica) August 1
Overheating problems led to the withdrawal of Kyle Wyman, the author of a double podium at Road America with the Ducati Panigale V4 R who, in these circumstances, stopped on the 4th lap while riding on top -3.
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