“Plain and simple, I’m pretty comfortable on my bike right now. At first, I was being pretty inconsistent, but I think everybody was with the wind. We made a couple of changes from the first practice to the second practice, and I started piecing things together. “I honestly thought Josh Hayes did a faster lap back in the day, but I’ll take it. “That’s what I was told,” said Beaubier, when questioned about the new lap record. Riding his new, 2020-model YZF-R1 tuned by his new crew chief Richard Stanboli, four-time and defending Champion Beaubier lapped the four-mile-long course in 2:11.145, eclipsing the previous MotoAmerica/AMA Superbike lap record of 2:11.333 set by Josh Hayes in 2012, according to MotoAmerica.
Monster Energy Attack Performance Yamaha rider Cameron Beaubier earned provisional pole position during MotoAmerica Superbike qualifying Friday at Road America, in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
