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The MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship Set To Start Alongside MotoGP In The Red Bull Grand Prix Of The Americas, April 8-10

IRVINE, CA – April 6, 2022 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – If history is to repeat itself in the opening round of the 2022 MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship at Circuit of The Americas (COTA) this weekend, a non-American will win on a Suzuki GSX-R1000 for his first career MotoAmerica victory.

Jake Gagne won 17 of 20 MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike races in 2021 en route to the championship and that makes him the preseason favorite for 2022. Photo by Brian J. Nelson

Welcome to the top step on the podium, Richie Escalante.

Okay, not so fast.

Thanks mostly to a certain Spaniard by the name of Toni Elias, foreigners have won seven of the 10 MotoAmerica Superbike races held at COTA with Elias winning six times and South African Mathew Scholtz taking a lone victory in 2018. The Americans who have tasted victory on the circuit located on the…

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