Paul Carruthers 

What seemed inevitable based on the hard battles the two have had all season long turned into reality today when Monster Energy/Yamalube/Y.E.S./Graves Yamaha teammates Garrett Gerloff and JD Beach crashed together on the final lap of the Supersport final at the Utah Motorsports Campus. The error, which Beach took full responsibility for, allowed M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Valentin Debise to take the victory, his second of the season as the two Yamaha men were literally left in the dust trying to free their bikes from each other’s.

For Debise it was a gift win that he was happy to take.

“When I saw the dust I knew there were only two guys in front of me, so it was easy to know who it was,” Debise said. “So I look and they weren’t working towards the front, or they weren’t in the same position, and after that I just go and take my win. At VIR, I crash twice and give them (Gerloff and Beach) the win, so (today) they made a mistake and I take it (the win). It was a really good points (day) for me, and I was the same as them (in speed) for about four to five laps, which was good. I tried to keep up, but I wasn’t able. It feels good to be back with a win.”

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With the top two men in the championship crashing out, the podium featured two fresh faces in M4 Rickdiculous Racing Suzuki’s Daytona Anderson and Rickdiculous Racing’s Jayson Uribe, the latter in his first-ever MotoAmerica weekend. For both it was their first foray onto a MotoAmerica podium.

Anderson ended up getting the better of Uribe, who races in the Spanish Moto2 Championship, by just .843 of a second.

Fourth place went to Aguilar Racing Yamaha’s Jason Aguilar with the Californian picking up his second straight Superstock 600 victory in the process. He was some 12 seconds clear of Team MG55’s Michael Gilbert, the SportRider Magazine editor taking the runner-up spot for the second straight day.

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Sixth fell to M4 medAge Suzuki’s Nick McFadden, the Kentuckian braving the pain of having his collarbone operated on just a week before the race to earn the final Superstock 600 podium spot.

Following his perfect weekend in Utah, Aguilar now leads the Superstock 600 title chase by nine points over Gilbert, 135-126. Connor Blevins, seventh today, is third with 125 points.

“I was behind Daytona (Anderson) and Jayson (Uribe) pretty much the whole time,” Aguilar said. “I was kind of watching them go at it. I was just kind of thinking in the back of my head that this isn’t my class (Supersport), so I don’t want to get involved in this. I was just trying to bring it home and saw I had a big gap off my pit board. I just laid down a couple good laps and paced myself. I just rode it home.”

Supersport

1. Valentin Debise, Albi, France, Suzuki
2. Daytona Anderson, Riverside, Calif., Suzuki
3. Jayson Uribe, Napa Valley, Calif., Yamaha
4. Jason Aguilar, Placentia, Calif. Yamaha
5. Michael Gilbert, Santa Ana, Calif., Yamaha
6. Nick McFadden, Owensboro, Ky., Suzuki
7. Connor Blevins, Oklahoma City, Okla., Kawasaki
8. Braeden Ortt, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Yamaha
9. JC Camacho, Deer Park, Texas
10. Nolan Lampkin, Indianapolis, In., Suzuki

Supersport Championship Standings

1. JD Beach, Owensboro, Ky., Yamaha – 172
2. Garrett Gerloff, New Waverly, Texas., Yamaha – 171
3. Valentin Debise, Albi, France, Suzuki – 124
4. Benny Solis, North Hollywood, Calif., Honda – 111
5. Jason Aguilar, Placentia, Calif., Yamaha – 67
6. Daytona Anderson, Riverside, Calif., Suzuki - 66
7. Connor Blevins, Oklahoma City, Okla., Kawasaki – 65
8. Michael Gilbert, Santa Ana, Calif., Yamaha – 62
9. Brandon Paasch, Freehold, N.J., Yamaha – 60
10. Nick McFadden, Owensboro, Ky., Suzuki – 53

Superstock 600

1. Jason Aguilar, Placentia, Calif., Yamaha
2. Michael Gilbert, Santa Ana, Calif., Yamaha
3. Nick McFadden, Owensboro, Ky., Suzuki
4. Conner Blevins, Oklahoma City, Okla., Kawasaki
5. Braeden Ortt, Calgary, Alberta, Yamaha
6. JC Camacho, Deer Park, Texas, Suzuki
7. Nolan Lampkin, Indianapolis, In., Suzuki
8. Shane Richardson, Wellington, New Zealand, Kawasaki
9. Caroline Olsen, Halden, Norway, Yamaha
10. Ezra Beaubier, Roseville, Calif., Yamaha

Superstock 600 Championship Standings

1. Jason Aguilar, Placentia, Calif., Yamaha – 135
2. Michael Gilbert, Santa Ana, Calif., Yamaha - 126
3. Conner Blevins, Oklahoma City, Okla., Kawasaki - 112
4. Nick McFadden, Owensboro, Ky., Suzuki – 104
5. Shane Richardson, Wellington, New Zealand, Kawasaki – 92
6. JC Camacho, Deer Park, Texas, Suzuki - 90
7. Braeden Ortt, Calgary, Alberta, Yamaha – 73
8. Anthony Mazziotto III, Hammonton, N.J., KTM - 65
9. Andrew Lee, Clovis, Calif., Yamaha – 54
10. Brandon Cleland, Fort Worth, Tx., 34