MotoAmerica Superbike, Round 2 Race 2
Hey! We may be the new coronavirus hot spot, but at least we’re racing. Which is more than can be said for the rest of the world. Sorry, we’re a bit behind schedule due to technical difficulties. Cameron Beaubier won (again) on Saturday, but on Sunday, another rider became the 59th man to win an AMA Superbike National, under beautiful skies in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin ? where there were actual spectators. There’s plenty of room for social distancing at Road America.
MotoAmerica Press Release:
Fong Gets His First Superbike Win
At Road America
Beaubier Crashes Out And The Rest Take Advantage
ELKHART LAKE, WI (June 28, 2020) ? M4 ECSTAR Suzuki?s Bobby Fong won the first HONOS Superbike race of his career today, the Californian taking full advantage of Cameron Beaubier?s only miscue of the young season to become the 59th rider in history to win an AMA Superbike National. Fong was in second, a few seconds adrift of Beaubier, when the previously unbeaten Beaubier hit a bump in turn one, lost the front end and crashed. Fong took over at the front but soon had Beaubier?s Monster Energy Attack Performance Yamaha?s teammate Jake Gagne nipping at his heels. For whichever one of those two who won, it would be a career first, and both of them rode like it. Fong, however, was able to withstand the pressure in the closing laps and led Gagne across the finish line by .509 of a second.
?I saw Cameron (Beaubier) go down and I knew immediately that ...
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