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AMA DSB: Cameron Beaubier - Too Good To Ignore
The next Martin Cardenas? The next American superstar? How about just a young racer who deserves a shot? Cameron Beaubier is on the rise and you best get on board.
Jake Holden Racing's Cameron Beaubier (Photo: Evan Williams)
That stalking silhouette is instantly recognizable. Or at the very least it bears an uncanny resemblance to the missing master of late-race chaos in Daytona SportBike.
That upright posture and calm demeanor which belies the intense frenetic activity all around -- as most recently witnessed hounding championship elect Danny Eslick with the laps winding down at Laguna Seca -- told your brain the man hunting the Oklahoman was none other than reigning champ Martin Cardenas.
However, fingering (way) down the race program attributed the triple-digit #116 machine to one Cameron Beaubier, a riding-style doppelgänger who has ably stepped forward to help fill the void left by the Colombian's class graduation while emerging as SportBike's newest fixture at the front.
On the surface Cardenas/Beaubier makes for an unlikely comparison. However, their strikingly similar riding styles -- at least in terms of body positioning -- were shaped on roughly equivalent paths, albeit thousands of miles and a decade apart.
Cardenas cut his teeth racing on pavement aboard Supermoto-style machinery on street courses in his native country. His success there led to a chance to prove himself in Spain, and a subsequent CEV Supersport title catapulted him to a factory ride on the undercard with Repsol Honda in the 250cc Grand Prix World Championship. However, before he knew it, Martin was spit back out and rebuilding his career as an AMA privateer. But his skills did not go unnoticed for long, and he was snapped up midseason to run with M4 Suzuki.
Now consider Beaubier's route: A former Supermoto prodigy in the States, Cameron did his time in Europe as well and, like Cardenas, impressed in the CEV Spanish domestic series. The next step was a factory ride on the undercard with Red Bull KTM in the 125cc Grand Prix World Championship. However, not yet ready to shine at that level, Beaubier found himself dropped back to the States and, soon enough, running as a pure privateer in SportBike despite his immense natural ability. His potential impossible to ignore, Jake Holden Racing and, more recently, RidersDiscount.com, drafted him into the fold midseason.
Whether or not the resultant stylistic relationship transfers to the same sort of late-race brilliance Cardenas became famous for has yet to be fully established, but there have been flashes.
That upright posture and calm demeanor which belies the intense frenetic activity all around -- as most recently witnessed hounding championship elect Danny Eslick with the laps winding down at Laguna Seca -- told your brain the man hunting the Oklahoman was none other than reigning champ Martin Cardenas.
However, fingering (way) down the race program attributed the triple-digit #116 machine to one Cameron Beaubier, a riding-style doppelgänger who has ably stepped forward to help fill the void left by the Colombian's class graduation while emerging as SportBike's newest fixture at the front.
On the surface Cardenas/Beaubier makes for an unlikely comparison. However, their strikingly similar riding styles -- at least in terms of body positioning -- were shaped on roughly equivalent paths, albeit thousands of miles and a decade apart.
Cardenas cut his teeth racing on pavement aboard Supermoto-style machinery on street courses in his native country. His success there led to a chance to prove himself in Spain, and a subsequent CEV Supersport title catapulted him to a factory ride on the undercard with Repsol Honda in the 250cc Grand Prix World Championship. However, before he knew it, Martin was spit back out and rebuilding his career as an AMA privateer. But his skills did not go unnoticed for long, and he was snapped up midseason to run with M4 Suzuki.
Now consider Beaubier's route: A former Supermoto prodigy in the States, Cameron did his time in Europe as well and, like Cardenas, impressed in the CEV Spanish domestic series. The next step was a factory ride on the undercard with Red Bull KTM in the 125cc Grand Prix World Championship. However, not yet ready to shine at that level, Beaubier found himself dropped back to the States and, soon enough, running as a pure privateer in SportBike despite his immense natural ability. His potential impossible to ignore, Jake Holden Racing and, more recently, RidersDiscount.com, drafted him into the fold midseason.
Whether or not the resultant stylistic relationship transfers to the same sort of late-race brilliance Cardenas became famous for has yet to be fully established, but there have been flashes.
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