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The Yamaha bLU cRU team transporters are rolling into Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama, today for this weekend’s round six of the 2016 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Motorcycle Road Racing Championship. George Barber’s picturesque 2.38-mile, 17-turn road course is a favorite stop on the MotoAmerica schedule for Yamaha’s bLU cRU road racers and crew members.

Fresh off his double win last weekend at Road America, defending MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier will be looking to keep his momentum going as he takes to the track at Barber Motorsports Park.

Cameron won Sunday’s MotoAmerica Superbike Race 2 at Barber last year. And, with his two wins at Road America last weekend, the 23-year-old is now leading the 2016 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship by seven points over his Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha Factory Racing teammate Josh Hayes.

Speaking of Josh, the four-time AMA Superbike champion absolutely thrives in the heat and stifling humidity of Barber Motorsports Park, a climate akin to where he grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi. Josh won Sunday’s MotoAmerica Superbike Race 1 last year at Barber, and he doubled the year before. Last week at Road America, he earned his first Superpole of 2016 and led the field in both races, but ultimately had to settle for two third-place finishes. Josh’s results in Wisconsin did not sit well with him, and he comes to Alabama with the bit in his teeth and ready to put his #4 Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha Factory Racing YZF-R1 on the top of the box in both of Sunday’s Superbike races at Barber.

Superbike Superpole (Qualifying) begins on Saturday at 2:00 PM CST. Superbike Race 1 will go green on Sunday at 12:30 PM CST, and Superbike Race 2 is later on Sunday at 4:00 PM CST.