Moto America Race Two Results From Road America
The race was stopped twice, once for a crash, the second time for oil on the track.
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Elias Takes Motul Superbike Race Two At Road America
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ELKHART LAKE, WI (June 5, 2017) ? Yoshimura Suzuki?s Toni Elias won a red-flag shortened Motul Superbike race today in the final day of the Dunlop Championship at Road America, the Spaniard topping his teammate Roger Hayden by .131 of a second when the race was stopped for a second time because of oil on the racing line in turn one.
The race was stopped twice. The first time came on the opening lap when Bobby Fong, Jake Lewis and Mathew Scholtz crashed on the exit of turn five. Fortunately, the three escaped injury and Lewis and Scholtz were able to restart the race with Fong being forced to sit it out with a badly damaged motorcycle. From the onset of the restart, the race at the front was hot and heavy with Elias and Hayden going at it at the front while Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing?s Cameron Beaubier fought through from a bad start to join them. The shortened eight-lap race looked set to be a thriller to the end, but ended up with an anticlimactic finish when Josh Herrin?s HelmetSounds/Western Services/Meen Motorsports Yamaha blew up on the entrance to turn one and left oil on the racing surface. That brought out the red flag and the premature end to the race.
Since Elias had led across the line the lap of the incident, he was awarded victory by ...
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