MotoAmerica Superbike Championship of Texas
MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North America Road Racing Series
Circuit of The Americas, Austin, Texas
April 10, 2016
Provisional Overall Superbike/Bazzaz Superstock 1000 Race Two Results (all on Dunlop tires):
1. Toni Elias (Suz GSX-R1000), Superbike, 15 laps, Total Time 32:34.013, Best Lap Time 2:09.456
2. Roger Hayden (Suz GSX-R1000), Superbike, -4.063 seconds, 2:09.929
3. Josh Hayes (Yam YZF-R1), Superbike, -15.951, 2:10.446
4. Cameron Beaubier (Yam YZF-R1), Superbike, -20.010, ran off track, 2:10.222
5. Bobby Fong (Kaw ZX-10R), Superstock 1000, -21.818, 2:10.507
6. Claudio Corti (Apr RSV4 RF), Superstock 1000, -36.989, 2:11.444
7. Josh Herrin (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, -37.002, 2:10.976
8. Danny Eslick (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, -37.186, 2:11.487
9. Jake Gagne (Yam YZF-R1), Superbike, -43.664, 2:10.530
10. Taylor Knapp (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, -43.881, 2:11.982
11. David Anthony (Kaw ZX-10R), Superstock 1000, -46.250, 2:12.399
12. Hayden Gillim (Suz GSX-R1000), Superstock 1000, -49.155, 2:12.591
13. Steve Rapp (BMW S1000RR), Superstock 1000, -59.875, 2:11.879
14. Sheridan Morais (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, -76.809, 2:12.115
15. Chris Ulrich (Suz GSX-R1000), Superbike, -83.062, 2:12.925
16. Anthony Kosinski (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, -103.993, 2:15.945
17. Max Flinders (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, -2-112.709, 2:15.435
18. Barrett Long (Yam YZF-R1), Superbike, -124.017, 2:17.761
19. Jason Madama (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, -129.429, 2:18.084
20. Sam Verderico (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, -134.843, 2:18.411
21. Jeff Wrobel (Suz GSX-R1000), Superstock 1000, -1 lap, 2:18.315
22. Josh Chisum (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, -1 lap, 2:18.979
23. Johnny Rock Page (Yam YZF-R1), Superbike, -1 lap, 2:18.256
24. Josh Day (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, DNF, crash, 2:10.633
25. Ryan Jones (Yam YZF-R1), Superbike, DNF, crash, 2:15.456
26. Kyle Wyman (Yam YZF-R1), Superbike, DNF, crash, 2:12.084
Provisional Superbike Race Two Results (all on Dunlop tires):
1. Toni Elias (Suz GSX-R1000), 15 laps, Total Time 32:34.013, Best Lap Time 2:09.456
2. Roger Hayden (Suz GSX-R1000), -4.063 seconds, 2:09.929
3. Josh Hayes (Yam YZF-R1), -15.951, 2:10.446
4. Cameron Beaubier (Yam YZF-R1), -20.010, ran off track, 2:10.222
5. Jake Gagne (Yam YZF-R1), -43.664, 2:10.530
6. Chris Ulrich (Suz GSX-R1000), -83.062, 2:12.925
7. Barrett Long (Yam YZF-R1), -124.017, 2:17.761
8. Johnny Rock Page (Yam YZF-R1), -1 lap, 2:18.256
9. Ryan Jones (Yam YZF-R1), DNF, crash, 2:15.456
10. Kyle Wyman (Yam YZF-R1), DNF, crash, 2:12.084
Superbike Championship Point Standings (after 2 of 18 races):
1. Elias, 50 points
2. Hayden, 40
3. Hayes, 32
4. Gagne, 20
5. Beaubier, 13
6. Ulrich, 4
7. Jones, 1
8. TIE, Wyman/Long/Page, 0
Provisional Bazzaz Superstock 1000 Race Two Results (all on Dunlop tires):
1. Bobby Fong (Kaw ZX-10R), 15 laps, Total Race Time 32:55.831, 2:10.507
2. Claudio Corti (Apr RSV4 RF), -15.171 seconds, 2:11.444
3. Josh Herrin (Yam YZF-R1), -15.184, 2:10.976
4. Danny Eslick (Yam YZF-R1), -15.368, 2:13.487
5. Taylor Knapp (Yam YZF-R1), -22.063, 2:11.982
6. David Anthony (Kaw ZX-10R), -24.432, 2:12.399
7. Hayden Gillim (Suz GSX-R1000), -27.337, 2:12.591
8. Steve Rapp (BMW S1000RR), -38.057, 2:11.879
9. Sheridan Morais (Yam YZF-R1), -54.991, 2:12.115
10. Anthony Kosinski (Yam YZF-R1), -82.175, 2:15.945
11. Max Flinders (Yam YZF-R1), -90.891, 2:15.435
12. Jason Madama (Yam YZF-R1), -107.611, 2:18.084
13. Sam Verderico (Yam YZF-R1), -113.025, 2:18.411
14. Jeff Wrobel (Suz GSX-R1000), -1 lap, 2:18.315
15. Josh Chisum (Yam YZF-R1), -1 lap, 2:18.979
16. Josh Day (Yam YZF-R1), Superstock 1000, DNF, crash, 2:10.633
Bazzaz Superstock 1000 Championship Point Standings (after 2 of 18 races):
1. Fong, 50 points
2. Herrin, 36
3. Knapp, 24
4. Eslick, 23
5. Corti, 20
6. TIE, Anthony/Morais, 18
8. Rapp, 17
9. TIE, Day/Gillim, 16
More, from a press release issued by MotoAmerica:
Elias Again In MotoAmerica Superbike At COTA
Former World Champion Sweeps Through Texas
AUSTIN, TX, APRIL 10 – Yoshimura Suzuki’s fill-in rider Toni Elias was perfect over the course of the two MotoAmerica Superbike races at Circuit of The Americas this weekend, the Spaniard beating his teammate Roger Hayden to win his second race in two days on an overcast Sunday afternoon in Austin.
Elias kept his perfect MotoAmerica season intact, the former Moto2 World Champion and MotoGP race winner holding off a stalking Hayden for the majority of the 15 laps to ultimately win by a tad over four seconds once Hayden threw in the towel on the final lap.
“I’m not the King, just winning some races,” Elias said after winning his second race in two days. “I’m happy and I’m satisfied. At the beginning of the race, I was a little bit worried. I didn’t have a great, great feeling, but we start, I try to stay behind Roger (Hayden) and Cameron (Beaubier). Finally, I found myself again and try to go away but was impossible. Roger was there all the time. My rhythm was good, the tires were sliding a lot all the time, but I make one mistake and he passed me again. Finally, I could do what I wanted and take some gap, but only in the last three laps. I was at home (without a ride) and I cannot ask for more. It’s amazing. It’s perfect.”
Third place went to four-time AMA Superbike Champion Josh Hayes, the Monster Energy/Graves Yamaha rider on the podium but disappointed at ending up almost 16 seconds behind Elias. Still, he fared better than his teammate Cameron Beaubier, the defending MotoAmerica Champion forced to charge his way through the pack to a fourth-place finish after an early off-track excursion.
Fifth place went to Latus Motors Kawasaki’s Bobby Fong, the Californian again crossing the line as the top Superstock 1000 finisher. Fong held on to fourth for most of the race until being caught and passed by Beaubier.
“Pushing 110 percent and I know by the end of the race I couldn’t do those times,” Fong said. “We tried and I knew that I had a gap on the Superstock guys and I kept on seeing plus one, plus two on my board and then I heard an R1 behind me. I thought it was Josh Day or (Josh) Herrin trying to get by me and it was Cameron (Beaubier). I wasn’t too worried after that. I was pretty thankful it was Cameron and not one of the Superstock guys.”
Sixth place featured a titanic battle between Aprilia HSBK Racing’s Claudio Corti, Wheels In Motion/Motosport.com/Meen Motorsports’ Josh Herrin and TOBC’s Danny Eslick. The three tussled for most of the race with the top spot being exchanged multiple times over the course of a lap. At the finish line it was Corti taking sixth with Herrin seventh and Eslick eighth. The trio was separated by just .197 of a second at the flag, and it was Corti and Herrin joining Fong on the Bazzaz Superstock 1000 podium.
Broaster Chicken/Roadrace Factory’s Jake Gagne, who was fourth yesterday, struggled today and ended up ninth. MotoEverything/DieselOps Racing’s Taylor Knapp rounded out the top 10 finishers.
If there was a question after his win yesterday of what Yoshimura Suzuki would do with Elias when Jake Lewis returns in a race or two from injury, the question now looms even larger. Elias is leading the 2016 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship by 10 points over Hayden, 50-40, as the series moves to Road Atlanta for two more races next weekend.
“Today was a really good race,” Hayden said. “As soon as I got the holeshot my lap time was a low 10 and that’s what I’ve been working hard on to try and get away. Toni came by me and the whole race was 9s, low 10s. His pace was incredible and the last couple of laps I was just sliding around a lot and he kinda got a little gap on me. I’m really happy for the team and they’re working really hard and to sweep the weekend with qualifying first and second, first and second in both races… they deserve that. We’ve been getting our butts kicked pretty bad the last couple of years by Josh and Cam and it kind of feels good as a team to finally give them a little piece of the bad taste that we’ve been getting. We want to win just like those guys want to win, so it feels good, but I don’t like getting second either and I want to win one of these. I’m doing all the right things and eventually it’s going to happen.”
A modest Elias knows that Road Atlanta might portray a different picture than the Circuit of The Americas.
“I see only videos – on-board cameras,” Elias said of Road Atlanta, the site of round two of the MotoAmerica Championship. “Looks nice, but looks really difficult. I think I will see the reality of this championship and all these guys. It will not be like here, but it’s a challenge for me and I have a lot of motivation to learn the track, the track conditions, learn about these guys and I’m happy to have this opportunity and then we will see if I continue or not.”
Hayes sits third in the title chase with 32 points, 12 better than fourth-placed Gagne. Beaubier is fifth with 13 points – 37 points behind Elias.
“It was pretty crappy,” Beaubier said of his weekend. “I haven’t had a weekend like that in a long time. It’s frustrating, really. One thing after another. Coming into this race, the team and I, everything was going so well. The tests in California and here both went really good, but for some reason this weekend we were just struggling. It was a weird, unlucky weekend. Yesterday I felt I had great pace and I could just go, and today I didn’t have that feeling at all. I felt tight on the bike, then I had a front-brake issue. All that happened I think, I got a little air bubble in the line or something. I just went straight, the brake came back to the bar, and I went straight. But then I pumped them back up and they were perfect the rest of the race, completely fine. I haven’t had a problem like that before. Super strange. I know how hard my guys work on the bikes and how much time they put in, and to have little things go wrong like that, it’s unlucky, really unlucky. “
Fong has a perfect 50 points in the Bazzaz Superstock 1000 Championship, 14 clear of Herrin and 26 ahead of Knapp.
SUPERBIKE RACE 2: 1. Toni Elias (Suzuki); 2. Roger Hayden (Suzuki); 3. Josh Hayes (Yamaha); 4. Cameron Beaubier (Yamaha); 5. Bobby Fong (Kawasaki); 6. Claudio Corti (Aprilia); 7. Josh Herrin (Yamaha); 8. Danny Eslick (Yamaha); 9. Jake Gagne (Yamaha); 10. Taylor Knapp (Yamaha).
SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP: 1. Toni Elias (50/2 wins); 2. Roger Hayden (40); 3. Josh Hayes (32); 4. Jake Gagne (20); 5. Cameron Beaubier (13); 6. Chris Ulrich (4); 7. Ryan Jones (1).
BAZZAZ SUPERSTOCK 1000 CHAMPIONSHIP: 1. Bobby Fong (50/2 wins); 2. Josh Herrin (36); 3. Taylor Knapp (24); 4. Danny Eslick (23); 5. Claudio Corti (20); 6. David Anthony (18); 7. Sheridan Morais (18); 8. Steve Rapp (17); 9. Josh Day (16); 10. Hayden Gillim (16).
More, from a press release issued by Yamaha:
Hayes Podiums & Teammate Beaubier Finishes Fourth In MotoAmerica Superbike Race 2 At COTA
Austin, TX – April 10, 2016 – Four-time AMA Superbike Champion Josh Hayes, who was the third-place finisher from Saturday’s MotoAmerica Superbike Race 1, also reached the podium in Sunday’s Race 2, while defending MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier was fourth despite briefly running off the track early in the race at the Circuit of The Americas.
The Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha Superbike tandem started from the second row, with Josh lined up fourth and Cameron gridded right next to his teammate. Both riders got off to a good start, and Cameron was battling for the lead until his fortunes changed when he went off the track.
As Cameron worked his way back toward the front again, Josh was in third where he ran a quiet, yet solid, race to finish out the weekend with two podium results.
“I don’t have a good excuse. I just got beat today,” commented Josh. “That was the best that I had. It’s no secret that I struggled here all weekend long. But, I’m happy that I get another shot at those boys in just a few days when we’re at Road Atlanta.”
Cameron said, “We struggled with a lot of things this weekend, and I feel a little bit snake-bitten. At the start of the race, I really didn’t feel comfortable at all. I guess I just want to put this one behind me. I’m definitely looking forward to going to Road Atlanta where I did well last year. And I’m glad that it’s next weekend because all I want to do is get back out there, work hard, and get some better results. I’m determined, and my whole team is determined, to get back to winning races.”
The Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha Factory Racing team will travel to Road Atlanta for Round Two of the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship, coming up this weekend.
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