Friday Recap: MotoAmerica Superbikes At The Ridge

2020-08-31 06:10
Monster Energy Attack Performance Yamaha’s Cameron Beaubier continued his 2020 HONOS Superbike season domination today in the opening qualifying session at the Ridge Motorsports Park, the championship points leader lapping at 1:40.358 to best the rest by over a second.

Beaubier’s best came on the 14th lap and it was 1.029 seconds quicker than Westby Racing’s Mathew Scholtz, the South African’s fastest lap a 1:41.387. Beaubier’s best was a lap record in MotoAmerica’s debut race at the track in the Pacific Northwest.

Third fastest heading into tomorrow’s Superpole session was Beaubier’s teammate Jake Gagne. Gagne’s best lap was a 1:42.010 – 1.652 seconds slower than Beaubier.

M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Toni Elias continues to search for his mojo on his GSX-R1000 and he improved to the fourth fastest time, one spot higher than his teammate Bobby Fong.

Italian Lorenzo Zanetti rode his Celtic HSBK Racing Ducati Panigale V4 R to the sixth best time, half a second behind Fong and .326 of a second ahead of Scheibe Racing BMW’s Josh Herrin. FLY Racing ADR Motorsports’ David Anthony, Rock & Son’s Jason Uribe and Anthony’s teammate Bradley Ward completed the top 10 on the opening day.

The Supersport war between HONOS Kawasaki’s championship points leader Richie Escalante and M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly continued on opening day at the Ridge, the two fighting for the top spot in Q1 with Kelly and his 1:44.204 getting the nod over Escalante’s 1:44.822. Altus Motorsports’ Kevin Olmedo was third with a best of 1:45.375.

Norton Motorsports/Ninja400R/Dr. Farr/Wonder CBD Rocco Landers bested Celtic HSBK Racing’s Samuel Lochoff by a tick over half a second to lead the way in the Liqui Moly Junior Cup class. BARTCON Racing’s Dominic Doyle was third fastest.

Altus Motorsports’ Cameron Petersen led the way in the Stock 1000 class with his 1:43.362. Ride HVMC Racing’s Corey Alexander was second fastest with Alex Dumas bouncing back from a crash on the M4 ECSTAR Suzuki to finish the day third fastest.

The final session of the day was the Twins Cup and Landers continued to lead the way on his Sportbike TrackGear.com Suzuki with a lap time that was 1.7 seconds faster than Robem Engineering’s Jackson Blackmon. Syndicate Racing/Apex Assassins’ Jason Madama ended up third with championship leader Kaleb De Keyrel fourth.

Superbike Q1

Cameron Beaubier (Yamaha) 1:40.358
Mathew Scholtz (Yamaha) 1:41.387
Jake Gagne (Yamaha) 1:42.010
Toni Elias (Suzuki) 1:42.243
Bobby Fong (Suzuki) 1:42.256
Lorenzo Zanetti (Ducati) 1:42.782
Josh Herrin (BMW) 1:43.108
David Anthony (Suzuki) 1:43.407
Jayson Uribe (Honda) 1:44.213
Bradley Ward (Kawasaki) 1:44.461

Supersport Q1

1. Sean Dylan Kelly (Suzuki) 1:44.204
2. Richie Escalante (Kawasaki) 1:44.822
3. Kevin Olmedo (Suzuki) 1:45.375
4. Brandon Paasch (Yamaha) 1:45.627
5. Xavier Zayat (Yamaha) 1:46.166
6. Lucas Silva (Suzuki) 1:46.219
7. Nate Minster (Yamaha) 1:47.046
8. Jaret Nassaney (Suzuki) 1:46.574
9. Alejandro Thermiotis (Yamaha) 1:47.601
10. Nolan Lamkin (Yamaha) 1:48.493

Liqui Moly Junior Cup Q1

Rocco Landers (Kawasaki) 1:53.420
Samuel Lochoff (Kawasaki) 1:53.973
Dominic Doyle (Kawasaki) 1:54.417
Benjamin Gloddy (Kawasaki) 1:55.798
Jack Roach (Kawasaki) 1:56.114
Liam Grant (Kawasaki) 1:56.365
David Kohlstaedt (Kawasaki) 1:56.365
Errol Sullivan (Kawasaki) 1:56.559
Blake Davis (Kawasaki) 1:56.902
Aden Thao (Kawasaki) 1:57.751

Stock 1000

Cameron Petersen (Suzuki) 1:43.362
Corey Alexander (Kawasaki) 1:44.037
Alex Dumas (Suzuki) 1:44.216
Andy DiBrino (Kawasaki) 1:44.361
Michael Gilbert (1:44.673
Travis Wyman (BMW) 1:44.874
Adam Roberts (Suzuki) 1:45.019
Danilo Lewis (BMW) 1:45.624
Hunter Dunham (Yamaha) 1:46.905
Volga Mermut (BMW) 1:49.784

Twins Cup Q1

Rocco Landers (Suzuki) 1:48.351
Jackson Blackmon (Suzuki) 1:50.107
Jason Madama (Yamaha) 1:50.445
Kaleb De Keyrel (Yamaha) 1:50.711
Toby Khamsouk (Suzuki) 1:50.732
Cooper McDonald (Yamaha) 1:52.038
Trevor Standish (Suzuki) 1:52.505
Dustin Walbon (Suzuki) 1:55.255
Alex Taylor (Yamaha) 1:55.377
Sam West (Suzuki) 1:56.346

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Monster Energy Attack Performance Yamaha's Cameron Beaubier was the fastest of the fast on the opening day of HONOS Superbike qualifying at the Ridge Motorsports Park. Photo by Brian J. Nelson
M4 ECSTAR Suzuki's Sean Dylan Kelly emerged from day one as the fastest of the Supersport class. Photo by Brian J. Nelson
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Friday results by class:

Honos Superbike

Supersport

Liqui Moly Junior Cup

Stock 1000

Twins Cup

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