PROGRAMMING NOTE: This weekend's AMA Pro Road Racing race action from Homestead-Miami Speedway will air on SPEED Saturday and Sunday evening starting at Midnight ET.
19-year-old Cameron Beaubier notched his fifth AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike victory of the season when he won Saturday’s Race 1 at New Jersey. But, on Sunday, disaster struck in Race 2 as he crashed his #6 Yamaha Extended Service/Graves/Yamaha YZF-R6 due to water and dirt on the track surface. Justifiably, Cameron felt like he was done wrong by the unavoidable incident, and it has ratcheted up his steely determination even more to win races. He’s had an adventure-filled season, and he said, “I’d like to finish out the year with a little less drama, that’s for sure. Well, I’d like the drama of race wins, but not the drama of all that other stuff.”
Tommy Hayden, who is Cameron’s teammate and rider of the #22 Y.E.S./Graves/Yamaha R6, was also a victim of the slippery New Jersey Motorsport Park racing surface. His crash in the same corner and at the same time as Cameron will unfortunately prevent Tommy from racing at Homestead-Miami Speedway. “I’m on the mend,” Tommy said. “The separated shoulder is the biggest problem right now. I’ve got my broken foot in a walking boot, and that’s doing pretty good. The concussion symptoms have mostly subsided, but my shoulder is going to take some time, that’s for sure.” Tommy and the team are hopeful that he’ll be fit and healthy to race at the final round in New Orleans in just over two weeks. “I’ll be at NOLA,” Tommy added. “Whether I am able to race or not, I’ll be there, for sure.”
The third member of the Y.E.S./Graves/Yamaha team, Garrett Gerloff, made a successful return to racing at New Jersey, six months after suffering a serious leg injury in practice for the Daytona 200. He’ll be looking to build on his strong second- and fifth-place finishes in the AMA Pro Motorcycle-SuperStore.com SuperSport races at NJMP by notching a win or two aboard his #96 Yamaha Extended Service/Graves/Yamaha YZF-R6 at Homestead-Miami Speedway this weekend.
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Seeing motorcycle road racing live and in person is an awesome spectacle not to be missed but, if you can’t make it to the track this weekend, be sure to watch all the action from Homestead-Miami Speedway on Speed TV. For the exact days and times of the telecasts, be sure to check your local listings, or go to www.SpeedTV.com for more information.