Jake Gagne finished second eight times in 2020. On Sunday at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Gagne took his maiden MotoAmerica Superbike win with a victory o .
Featured In the December 2022 issue of Roadracing World: Friday had gone about as well as could be expected for two-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champions Attack Racing and Jake Gagne in their Superbike World Championship wild card entry. When Saturday dawned, the team was ready to spend the day making smaller changes in more areas, looking for a better overall package for the undulating, fast Autodromo Internacional do Algarve. We re working on a lot of little things. Electronics. Suspension. We re trying to bring the bike and the rider together, Attack Racing s Richard Stanboli said. The team had settled on its tire choices, which came at a cost. The way that World Superbike allocates its tires is to give each team a number of stickers that can be used over the weekend. Once the rider leaves the pits with a tire, it is considered part of the team s tire allocation.
Positive Weekend at Portimao for Gagne and Attack Performance Yamaha Racing Attack Performance Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne continued to make progress during a challenging wild card weekend and finished in the points Sunday in WorldSBK Race 2 at the Algarve International Circuit. Gagne and his Attack Performance Yamaha team headed over to Portugal just a couple of weeks after securing a second-consecutive MotoAmerica Superbike Championship aboard his Fresh N Lean Progressive Yamaha Racing R1. With little track time at the 2.89-mile circuit in Portimao and different tires, he and the team went to work and made progress every session. After a tough Friday, Gagne improved his times to qualify 16th and then got a decent start in the opening race from the sixth row of the grid in 18th, ultimately crossing the line one position further back. With more track time, his forward momentum continued with a better start in Sunday’s Superpole race in 15th before finishing 16th in the
Attack The World! - Friday, Autodromo Internacional do Algarve, Portimao, Portugal Copyright 2022, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc. by Michael Gougis At least the bikes got to the track on time. Delays in getting the bikes through customs meant that the Attack Racing equipment made it to the track far later than the team wanted. Endless debates about what kind of plane the team s Yamaha YZF-R1s had to fly on, nomenclature on the forms, a midnight run to get the tractor-semi trailer - at the end of it all, Attack s Richard Stanboli was convinced that the customs officials were just making things up to delay the process. But when practice opened on Friday, two-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Jake Gagne was on the track and mixing it up with the world s best Superbike racers. At the end of FP1, Gagne was 18th, 2.114 seconds off of Michael Rinaldi s quickest time, but sandwiched between former British Superbike Champion Leon Haslam - a racer
Yamaha Celebrates its “Spirit of Challenge” with Return to the Iconic Daytona International Speedway. Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., makes its official return to the high banks of the iconic Daytona International Speedway, with MotoAmerica partnering with the venue to host the 80th running of .