Utah Motorsports Campus in Tooele, Utah, is the scene for the next round of the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. It's time for race one. Spoiler alert! As many as seven riders were in the lead of this motorcycle race. Let's check out the highlights of race one, and then, we shall move on to race two. Of course there are indeed two races every weekend in MotoAmerica competition.
It is time for race one for MotoAmerica in Utah. Red lights, on. Red lights, out! Away we go! A couple of riders at the back of the grid, jumped the start or so it appears. The marshals will have to examine that. But, as per usual, her comes Cameron Beaubier going for the lead of this motorcycle race right out of the blocks. Matt Scholz is doing his best to get past Garrett Gerloff as well. Gerloff on the outside, and here comes Josh Herrin, look. Herrin is charging already! Folks, don't worry. You will be able to see this race in it's entirety. Watch what happens. This is some great action we have already!
Herrin is flying right now, and Gerloff has the afterburners on on his motorcycle as well! 23 laps on the board for this race, and we are already three laps in. J.D. Beach is also coming up, fast. Oh my! Just as we are trying to sort out riders down the order, Herrin is making a move for second on his team mate, Garrett Gerloff, taking Gerloff by surprise, look. In replay, we can see he does the slingshot between turns five and six and he has the move covered. Lap six now, and we have three Yamaha's in the top four places.
We look in replay, and Gerloff took J.D. Beach entirely by surprise. We're past halfway in the race now, and Cameron Beaubier has just dominated race one here in Utah. We look at the championship points standings and Cameron Beaubier for Yamaha as well as his closest pursuer, Suzuki's Toni Elias, they are tied for the championship lead at the moment, 167 points apiece. Garrett Gerloff is 50 markers behind in third spot on 117 points, and Josh Herrin is only a single point behind Gerloff, 51 points in-arrears. Josh Herrine wants by Cameron Beaubier.
He is telling Cameron, "look, mate, I'm not going to let you run away with this race, or with your points lead." Herrin has the right gearing and the right attack angle out of The Attitudes, a twisting section of S curves here at Utah Motorsports Campus. In the meantime, Garrett Gerloff has also made a pass, look, on Toni Elias. Elias says, "no you don't, sunshine", and takes the fight right back to Garrett Gerloff headed for turn one! Elias is on the move! He lunges inside Cameron Beaubier as well! How bad do you want it? What will you do to get it? Poor old Cameron Beaubier has lost two places.
He might still get a podium out of this race, and we still have another to run as well. The action is not over yet. Matt Scholz has also passed Garrett Gerloff. The Westby Racing Yamaha is now fourth in this motorcycle race. J.D. Beach takes advantage of a slip up by Garrett Gerloff and says, "thanks for opening the door, Garrett. I'll step right through, sir." Matthew Scholz has now taken his Westby Racing bike, #11 to third spot and gotten around Cameron Beaubier. Beaubier is just not having the race he'd like, here in race one in Utah. Oh dear! We have a rider down, hard! Dust all over the shop here, look. J.D. Beach has crashed! Ugh! He was just in sight of the podium! We watch the Attack Performance Yamaha rider in replay.
He runs wide over the curbs, tried to turn, but the bike was gone at that point and he low sides right off the road. Hold on a second. Ladies and gentlemen, we have more drama on the circuit. Josh Herrin has a mechanical issue with that bike. Has the engine gone bang? Is there something amiss in the electronics system? What's the matter? Maybe he had a braking issue and just couldn't stop the bike properly. Meanwhile, we are indeed on the last lap of race one in Utah and Toni Elias is going to take the victory. Elias is the 2017 EBC Brakes Superbike champion, and he wins this race at Utah! His fourth race win of the year so far. Matthew Scholtz and Garrett Gerloff round out the podium.
Jake Lewis scores a top five spot. Josh Herrin comes back to finish in sixth spot. It should be noted that there was a mega battle for seventh place all the way to the finish line, between Jake Gagne, David Anthony, and Jason Uyribe! They all almost crossed the line together!
#24 Toni Elias Suzuki GSXR1000
Race two highlights are coming up. Stay tuned for that.
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