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Defending MotoAmerica Superbike Cameron Beaubier enters Sunday's MotoAmerica Superbike season finale races at New Jersey Motorsports Park with a healthy title advantage but showed at least some signs of cracks in the armor today.

His teammate and closest challenger, four-time series king Josh Hayes, will start those races from pole. The qualifying triumph was the 40th of his epic premier class career.

While Hayes has traditionally been a powerful force at NJMP, at least some part of today's success has to go to the respective failures of Beaubier and Yoshimura Suzuki's Toni Elias.

While Hayes was unflappable and fleet, Beaubier and Elias both crashed during Q2 while attempting to throw down fast laps with Dunlops Q tires fit to their machinery.

Hayes and Elias are expected to go for broke on Sunday with little to lose, while Beaubier's already cautious gameplan may have been further escalated as a result of his Saturday fall.

Hayes will be joined on the front row by Broaster Chicken RoadRace Factory's Jake Gagne, who served up a surprise by claiming second on the grid.

Rounding out the row is none other than Beaubier, who was nearly pole quick even on regular tires.

Second Yosh man Roger Hayden was disappointed not to have been able to take better advantage of Beaubier fall and will start from the inside of Row 2 as a result. Alongside will be South African Mathew Scholtz, fastest of the STK1000 runners, and Millennium Technologies/KWS Racing's Kyle Wyman.

Bobby Fong leapt all the way up to seventh after qualifying into Q2 via Q1. He actually moved one position ahead of former world champ Elias.

Cycle World Suzuki's Hayden Gillim and Team Rapid Transit's Sheridan Morais rounded out the qualifying top 10.

Beach Makes It Six Straight

Y.E.S. Graves Yamaha's JD Beach just kept on rolling in Supersport action, clocking his sixth consecutive win in the class. However, the fast season start of teammate Garrett Gerloff means the reigning champ is still down nine points heading into tomorrow's season finale.

Gerloff pressured Beach deep into today's contest but ultimately thought better of it after encountering a couple of near falls.

Frenchman Valentin Debise put the M4 Suzuki third, sealing his perfect season run of scoring at least one podium weekend at every round in his debut season racing Stateside.

Paasch Locks Up KTM RC390 Cup Championship

Brandon Paasch wrapped up the KTM RC390 Cup title with a clutch performance at his home round.

Paasch once again somehow found his way to the front of the pack to storm to the checkered flag first. Meanwhile, his closest championship competitor, Anthony Mazziotto III, could finish no better than seventh on the day after encountering an issue mid-race.

The separation was more than enough to assure Paasch the crown with tomorrow's race still to be run.