Gagne Strengthens Championship Lead at Road America
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne expands MotoAmerica Superbike Championship lead with a top-five finish in Race 2 / Jun 3, 2024 /
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne made further championship gains at MotoAmerica Superbike Round 3, finishing the weekend with a top-five finish in Race 2. His 2-5 score at Road America has him leaving Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, with an 18-point lead in the title chase. Unfortunately, Cameron Petersen’s race ended early with a technical issue before the halfway mark.
In Sunday’s dry race two, Gagne got a good start from the front row of the grid in third but was shuffled back to sixth. The defending three-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion rode his own race and advanced a spot on the final lap to cross the line fifth, further expanding his points lead on a challenging day at the four-mile track.
On the heels of his second win of the season, it was also a tough race two for Petersen. The South African got another good start from the third row of the grid into the top five but was shuffled back in the early laps. He was riding in seventh when unfortunately he had to withdraw from the race with a technical issue on Lap 7. Petersen leaves Road America tied for fourth in the championship and 30 points from his teammate at the top spot.
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing heads to Brainerd, Minnesota, in two weeks’ time for Round 4 of the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship at Brainerd International Raceway on June 14-16.
Richard Stanboli – Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing Team Manager
“It was a good weekend overall. We still leave with the championship lead and with a little bit of a bump because of the competitors who didn’t finish well or didn’t finish at all yesterday. So it was kind of a mulligan for them. I think we made a bad tire choice today. We were banking on the temperature coming up and it never did, and then it was too late to change it. So that hurt our pace there, and then we had a technical issue with the #45, but we’ll correct that for Brainerd.”
Jake Gagne – Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing #1
“It was a good race yesterday, and the bike was awesome in the wet. We knew this track would be kind of tough. Obviously, we’re still having arm issues and that doesn’t make it easy, but I think we’re a little off on setup. I think we’ve just got to kind of reset and we’ll reset at Brainerd. The team was awesome as always. We’re still in this thing, and on a tough weekend we were able to get some good points and leave with the championship lead.”
Cameron Petersen – Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing #45
“Honestly, it was a tough weekend. We were struggling in the dry. It seems like every time I’ve brought myself back up in the championship, something happens, so it just sucks to finish the weekend off like that, but that's racing. Taking the positives away from it, it was nice getting the win yesterday. We definitely have some work to do and we’ll come back stronger at the next race.”
2024 MotoAmerica Superbike Results
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