Princeton native Jake Lewis finished the season strong, picking up another win in the final MotoAmerica event of the season at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala., over the weekend.
In the only Stock 1000 race of the weekend, which started race day one Saturday, Lewis, the recently crowned class champion, overcame the wet track conditions to notch his sixth win of the season and fourth in a row.
Lewis started from the pole and led from start to finish, deftly negotiating the very tricky race surface aboard his Altus Motorsports Suzuki.
“It dumped down rain this morning,” Lewis said. “I don’t think I’ve rode in the rain since 2018. For that first session, I was just going pretty slow, honestly. Struggled for the whole practice. Made some changes before the race. I just told them to soften it and I’ll just ride it. Luckily, it rained before the race and it dried out a whole lot, actually.
“There were a couple streams and stuff, but the first part of the track was really dry. Midway through the race, the thing was sliding around and moving around quite a bit, which is nice for me, growing up flat tracking, and I still ride in the woods a lot.
“It feels nice to win. I wanted to go out on top. It’s nice to click off four wins in a row at the end of the season. Like I said on the podium midway through the season, we made a change, and I’ve got to thank the mechanics by my side. That kind of lifted the program forward a whole lot. It feels good. Can’t thank the whole Altus Motorsports team enough for giving me the opportunity this year.”
Lewis also rode to a fifth-place finish in the Superbike competition Saturday in Birmingham. That earned him the Superbike Cup crown (and the $25,000 that goes with it) for racers riding their Stock 1000-spec motorcycles in the HONOS Superbike races.
