5-Time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier Off To A Quick Begin In 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship.
A red-hot Cameron Beaubier struts his means into Wisconsin this week, hoping to keep up the benefit he at present holds after a near-perfect starting to his quest for a sixth MotoAmerica Superbike Championship because the collection heads into spherical three at Street America, Might 30-June 1.
How scorching is scorching? There have been 100 factors handed out from the opening two rounds of the 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. Beaubier and his Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW M 1000 RR have snatched 95 of these 100 factors.
Thus, with three wins and a second-place end on his scorecard from the primary 4 races, Beaubier is within the catbird seat because the collection heads to “America’s Nationwide Park of Pace.”
After successful race one within the Barber Motorsports Park collection opener, Beaubier was overwhelmed within the moist second race by Jake Gagne, proving that Beaubier wasn’t infallible. Then got here Street Atlanta, and a clear sweep of the 2 races for the 31-year-old Californian – and loads of his rivals’ smiles turned the other way up.
However the credo that “it ain’t over til it’s over” undoubtedly applies to bike racing.
Working example, final 12 months: After 5 races within the first two rounds (Barber’s spherical featured three Superbike races), Beaubier had received three of them, completed second, and had a DNF. Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin, the person who would march on to the 2024 Superbike title, was sixth and 47 factors behind Beaubier.
Then got here Street America, and every thing modified when Beaubier crashed within the rain and suffered a damaged heel that required surgical procedure. Gagne inherited the championship lead and was 18 factors forward of Beaubier. Herrin was 34 factors behind in sixth place.
After lacking the 2 races at Brainerd Worldwide Raceway and coming again too quickly to attempt to race at Ridge Motorsports Park, Beaubier was on the again foot (his good one). Bobby Fong led the championship by some extent over Gagne, who was struggling with carpal tunnel in his wrist and would finally finish his season early. Herrin was as much as fourth, simply 9 factors out of first and about to go on a tear, successful 5 of the final 10 races and ending on the rostrum in all however one of many races he didn’t win.
Herrin received the title by 55 factors over Beaubier, who one way or the other clawed his means again to second within the factors after his harm. Gagne dropped all the best way all the way down to seventh.
So, you’ll be able to see {that a} quick begin doesn’t imply a lot in case you get injured or have mechanical points.
It’s means too early for anybody within the Superbike pack to panic, although they should be cautious of Beaubier’s tempo and the way he has been in a position to dominate the season so far. He’s in his third 12 months on the BMW, his third 12 months within the Tylers crew, and he’s snug and glad. And a cheerful and comfy Beaubier can show to be unbeatable.
As if three wins out of 4 races wasn’t sufficient to make him smile, Beaubier additionally moved right into a tie with Josh Hayes on the all-time AMA wins record throughout all courses along with his 89th victory coming at Michelin Raceway Street Atlanta. Quantity 90 may come this weekend.
Assault Efficiency Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne sits second within the title chase with three podium finishes within the first 4 races in his quest for a fourth MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. Gagne once more thrived within the moist situations of race one at Street Atlanta, ending an in depth second to Beaubier. In Sunday’s dry race, Gagne slipped again to fifth. Gagne is 23 factors behind Beaubier and 13 forward of Herrin.
Like final 12 months, Herrin’s begin to the season is nothing to write down dwelling about. He was third in each races at Street Atlanta on his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati Panigale V4 R and looking out ahead to the wide-open areas of Street America.
Gagne’s teammate Bobby Fong was quick in Sunday’s dry race at Street Atlanta the place he hounded Beaubier in race two, ending only a tad over two seconds behind him. That got here a day after Fong slipped off and remounted, scoring 5 factors for ending eleventh.
Fong is simply three factors behind Herrin within the title chase and has Imaginative and prescient Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly respiration down his neck, simply 4 factors behind. Kelly carded a pair of fourth-place finishes as he continues to shine on his Suzuki GSX-R1000R.
Actual Metal Honda teammates Hayden Gillim and JD Seaside are sixth and seventh within the title chase, with Seaside remaining undefeated within the MotoAmerica Superbike Cup Championship for these racing Inventory 1000-spec bikes within the Superbike class.
Imaginative and prescient Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante was a constant sixth in each races in Georgia as he begins to make up floor from his first-race crash within the collection opener at Barber Motorsports Park.
FLO4LAW/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith earned a career-best fifth in race one at Street Atlanta, and he’s only a level behind Escalante and 11 factors forward of Thrashed Bike Racing’s Max Flinders, who rounds out the highest 10 because the collection readies for its third spherical in Wisconsin.
Pre-Street America Notes…
Cameron Beaubier earned pole place for final 12 months’s two Superbike races at Street America with the five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion breaking the Superbike lap report along with his 2:08.464. Josh Herrin was second quickest along with his 2:09.197 and Jake Gagne’s 2:09.564 earned him the ultimate spot on the entrance row.
It was a second Cameron who received race one at Street America final 12 months with Cameron Petersen beating his teammate Jake Gagne by a miniscule .004 of a second in a Wisconsin rainstorm. Loris Baz, who now competes within the Mission King Of The Baggers collection was third. Josh Herrin was dominant in successful race two on Sunday, topping Bobby Fong by 9 seconds with JD Seaside a shadow third.
Cameron Beaubier’s hopes for a sixth MotoAmerica Superbike Championship had been derailed at Street America in 2024 when he crashed out of a moist race one, struggling a damaged heel that will require surgical procedure.
This 12 months marks the forty fifth anniversary of three-time World Champion Freddie Spencer’s victory in what was the first-ever AMA Superbike race at Street America in 1980. Street America opened its gates to racing in 1955 with an SCCA Nationwide.
Cameron Beaubier has received 11 Superbike races at Street America. That’s two greater than Australian Mat Mladin and three greater than Josh Hayes.
Lively MotoAmerica racers with Superbike wins at Street America apart from Beaubier embrace Josh Herrin, Jake Gagne, and Bobby Fong, as swell Cameron Petersen and Mathew Scholtz, who at the moment are each racing within the Supersport class.
Yamaha continues to paved the way in producer Superbike wins at Street America with 27 victories. Suzuki is second with 18 Superbike race wins on the venue in Elkhart Lake, adopted by Honda with 12, Ducati with 10 and Kawasaki with 4. Cameron Beaubier’s race-one victory in 2023 was the primary Superbike win for BMW at Street America.
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