Yamaha's Jake Gagne wins his second MotoAmerica crown, beating ex-MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci (Petrux9) in a season-long tussle:
Gagne and Petrucci went to the Alabama track split by just four points at the head of the standings, but a 12th win of the season in Saturday's opener and a second-place finish in Sunday's curtain-closer proved enough for the American rider was enough to defend his crown.
The Italian could do no more than fourth in the second race, won by Gagne's Attack Performance Yamaha teammate Cameron Petersen, leaving him 20 points adrift in the final reckoning. "I don’t know how many of those we’ve had here in the States, so I wanted to do right and protect the home turf here and bring this MotoAmerica championship home with an American.”
The 31-year-old would only add two more triumphs to his tally for the rest of the year, but proved his consistency with 16 podiums in 20 races.Gagne on the other hand would go on to take 12 wins, but wasn't as consistent, with his higher rate of DNFs - three to Petrucci's one - keeping the title race tigher than it would have been otherwise.
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