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History Made: Cameron Beaubier Breaks All-Time Win Record With 90th Victory
Cameron Beaubier Becomes The All-Time AMA Road Race Race Winner With 90th Victory At Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
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MotoAmerica: Cameron Beaubier Becomes The All-Time AMA Road Race Race Winner With 90th Victory At Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
In March of 2010, Cameron Beaubier won the first AMA professional race of his career at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. He was a fresh-faced 17-year-old. Today, at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, Beaubier won his 90th career race, making him the winningest road racer across all classes in AMA history. He’s now a 32-year-old, five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion, husband, and father. And arguably the face of the series.
Beaubier won that first AMA race after spending three of his early years in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, the 125cc Spanish CEV Championship, and the 125cc World Championship.
Upon his return home, the Californian would win two AMA Pro SuperSport races in 2010 before moving to the Daytona SportBike Championship (the equivalent of MotoAmerica Supersport) in 2011. The jump up in class was a big one, and he went winless in his rookie season.
In 2012, Beaubier’s season started with a broken knee suffered on, of all things, a 50cc scooter. He bounced back from that to win seven races, but he was too far behind to finish any higher than third in the title chase.
A year after his early-season disaster came a dream season for Beaubier as he was crowned 2013 AMA Pro Racing Daytona SportBike Champion with 12 race wins, including a victory in the granddaddy of them all – the Daytona 200.
Beaubier was rewarded for a near-perfect 2013 season (his only loss came at the hands of Jake Gagne in race two at Road America) with a move to the factory Monster Energy-backed Yamaha Superbike team where he would join Josh Hayes, a man he would later credit for helping him achieve the results that would ironically end Hayes’ reign as the all-time win record holder.
“Josh, he’s one of a kind,” Beaubier said after tying Hayes’ win record at Road Atlanta earlier this year. “I think all the racers in our paddock have learned something from that guy, whether it’s how to be a professional, whether it’s the training, the preparation going into races, racecraft, how he talks to his crew chief on what he’s looking for to make the bike better. He’s done a lot for our sport and a lot in our sport. It’s pretty cool to be tied with that guy. Hopefully, I get one more and take it from him.”
That one more came today, with Beaubier taking sole possession of the all-time wins record with his 90th victory here in Ohio, the site of five of his race wins.
Of Beaubier’s 90 wins, 69 have been in the premier Superbike class. And he is closing in on Mat Mladin’s record of 82 AMA Superbike victories, a mark that not many believed would ever be broken. There’s work to be done but 13 more wins isn’t out of the question given Beaubier’s form of late. We must also remember that Beaubier has a 16-win season under his belt from 2020, his last championship-winning season prior to him heading to the Moto2 World Championship for the 2021 and 2022 seasons.
But let’s back up a bit.
Beaubier’s first Superbike victory came in race two at Daytona International Speedway. It was a landmark victory, and it came just a day after the 21-year-old’s first-ever Superbike race.
“It means everything,” Beaubier told Cycle News after winning that first AMA Pro Superbike race on March 14, 2014. “I’ve worked really hard to get to where I am and I can’t thank the team enough for giving me this opportunity. It was a little bit smoother of a race than yesterday. I didn’t go off track or anything, which I was happy about. A little more consistent.”
Ironically, Beaubier had lost out to Hayes in the opening race of the 2014 season a day earlier after making a few rookie mistakes that he quickly learned from. For Hayes, that victory was win number 42 of his career. With his Daytona victory, Beaubier became the 54th rider to win an AMA Superbike National, and it put him just 81 wins behind Mat Mladin.
Beaubier’s first Superbike title came in 2015, MotoAmerica’s first year of running the AMA Superbike Championship, and it came after a season-long battle with Hayes ended with Beaubier having four more points than his teammate at season’s end. Hayes (10 wins) won more races than Beaubier (eight wins), but it was the youngster taking the title to become the 20th rider in history to earn an AMA Superbike Championship.
Beaubier was able to defend his Superbike Championship in 2016, but it was no longer a two-rider battle as Spaniard Toni Elias came into the series armed with a Yoshimura Suzuki and was an immediate challenger for Beaubier’s crown.
Beaubier won eight of the 18 races in 2016 with Elias winning six times, and Hayes and Roger Hayden each winning twice.
A shoulder injury knocked Beaubier out of the title chase with four rounds to go in 2017, and that was all Elias needed to take the title with his 10 victories. Hayden was second after winning three races.
Beaubier earned his third championship in 2018 after another battle with Elias, with the Spaniard winning nine races to the more consistent Beaubier’s eight wins.
Elias again won the most races in 2019 (seven to Beaubier’s six), but it was Beaubier emerging with title number four by just five points over the Spanish star. By the end of 2019, Beaubier had amassed 38 career Superbike wins.
Beaubier’s 2020 season was one to remember as he won 16 races to earn his fifth MotoAmerica Superbike Championship while bringing his career Superbike win total to 54.
After two seasons in the Moto2 World Championship, Beaubier returned to the MotoAmerica series with a Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW and was instantly a success again, winning five of the first 11 races. Then came some bad luck when he was involved in a horrific accident at Pittsburgh International Race Complex that forced him out of the title chase with six races remaining.
Beaubier bounced back in 2024, winning six races to finish second in the title chase to Josh Herrin. Beaubier’s season went off the rails mid-year when he suffered a broken heel at Road America. He returned after missing three races to earn podium finishes in seven of the final nine races, including three victories.
Completely healed, fit and happy, Beaubier came out firing in 2025, winning three of the first four races. Then came a lull in race wins with the 90th victory taking some time to obtain. Finally, the tie was broken at Mid-Ohio where he became the winningest road racer in AMA history.
What’s next for Beaubier? A sixth championship, a shot at Mladin’s record? Or is this record going to get ping-ponged back and forth with Hayes suddenly winning more Supersport races?
“I just want to take it year by year,” Beaubier said. “To be honest with you, the last two years, the last three years with getting beat up over in Europe, then coming back here and getting beat up in a different way, with injuries… I was at a pretty low point a couple of times over the last couple of years. I don’t want to put a number on it. I’m enjoying the heck out of racing right now. I’m enjoying the preparation at home, all of it. I like being at the track, especially with my wife and little boy. It’d be so fun watching him kind of grow up in this paddock. I don’t want to put a number on it, just take it year by year.”
In other words, stay tuned.
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