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38 GRIDMOTO • JUNE 2017
JAKE GAGNE | MOTUL SUPERBIKE
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every time he makes the ride out of pit lane aboard his Genuine Broaster Chicken Honda. The San Diegoan impressed at
the opening round of the series at Circuit of the Americas by scoring a fifth place finish in his first competitive outing
on the 2017 CBR1000RR. Unfortunately, an electron- ics issue held him back from repeating the result in the second race and he was forced to watch from the pit garage at no fault of his own. The aforemen- tioned problem followed the team to Road Atlanta and contributed to them falling behind in the early stages of the weekend
as Gagne barely got any
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Jake Gagne has been fast
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track time during
The issues car-
the Californian
struggled to ride
to his potential,
but the team
used the track
time in
Friday’s sessions.
ried over into the opening race and
order to make positive
adjustments for the second race. Gagne was able to improve his race pace by approximately twenty seconds
between the two
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