Two-time and defending Champion Jake Gagne topped a good and sketchy MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Qualifying One (Q1) session Friday at Brainerd Worldwide Raceway, in Brainerd, Minnesota.
With rain threatening, Gagne acquired to enterprise shortly on his Recent N Lean Progressive Yamaha YZF-R1, turning a 1:31.492 on his sixth and ultimate lap within the session. After that, Gagne parked his bike and sat on pit lane for the rest of the 40-minute session.
9 minutes later, PJ Jacobsen did a 1:31.510 on his Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW M 1000 RR that held up for the second-best time of the session. After which Jacobsen parked his bike on pit lane.
Incomes the third and ultimate spot on the provisional entrance row was four-time AMA Professional Superbike Champion Josh Hayes, who’s filling in for Gagne’s injured teammate Cameron Petersen for his first Superbike race since 2017. Hayes’ 1:31.518 got here on his 14th of 15 laps and was simply 0.026 second off Gagne’s time.
The highest 10 riders have been solely separated by simply 1.020 seconds throughout the session.
Because the session went on, the rain flags continued to wave and winds started to gust, however some riders braved the situations to go even faster.
Imaginative and prescient Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Brandon Paasch put his head down late within the session, half-hour after Gagne did his finest lap, and turned a 1:32.072 that elevated him to P5, between Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW’s fourth-fastest Cameron Beaubier (1:31.632) and sixth-quickest Bobby Fong (1:32.120) on his Wrench bikes Yamaha.
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