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Supersport Champion- ship. The Washington native was the talk of the paddock at the beginning of the season after taking the first victory at Circuit of the Americas, extending
his streak of continu- ous wins to eight. He wasn’t able to tack any more races onto the impressive streak of victories after finishing third in both races at Road Atlanta, a touch off the pace of his main championship rivals. Beach has admittedly experienced trouble down in Georgia in
the past, so a pair of podium finishes and the ability to run the pace of the leaders was consid- ered a successful result for the 2015 champion. Although Beach didn’t have his best results at VIRginia International Raceway last year, he has proven himself a capable victor with a race win in 2015. The twenty-five year old will be aiming to get back to winning ways and cap- ture his second victory of the season when the lights go out at VIR.
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D Beach came into
the 2017 MotoAmerica series as the main man
to beat despite finishing
runner-up in the 2016
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