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Vesrah Suzuki’s Tray Batey won two races Thursday, during day two of the WERA Grand National Finals at Road Atlanta.

Riding his Pirelli-shod GSX-R750, Batey won the Sportsman B Superstock National Championship by winning the eight-lap, winner-take-all final by 10 seconds over Jeff Wood (in his first ride on his new Arclight Suzuki GSX-R750) and GSX-R600-mounted Lee Acree, third.

Acree came back to win the Sportsman C Superstock final over Wood and Smith.

Batey was even more dominant in the Heavyweight Twins Superstock National Challenge Series finale, riding his SV1000 to a 16-second victory. Frank Shockley and Roger Bell raced nose-to-tail for second place, but Bell’s Suzuki SV1000 didn’t have the horsepower of Shockley’s Aprilia Factory R. Still, Shockley beat Bell for second by only 0.087-second at the line.

Earlier in the day, Shockley took a narrow victory over Bell in the Sportsman Heavyweight Twins Superbike sprint and beat Dale Burroughs in Wednesday’s Sportsman Senior Superbike (a.k.a. Formula 40) race.

Batey also won Wednesday’s Sportsman Heavyweight Twins Superstock race over his teammate Mark Junge and Shockley.

In spite of having back surgery 10 days earlier, Dave Yaakov won Wednesday’s Sportsman Lightweight Superbike and Lightweight Supersport sprints and Thursday’s final round of the Lightweight Superstock National Challenge Series on his CAD Racing Suzuki SV650.

Other Expert race winners Thursday included: 16-year-old Tristan Schoenewald in Sportsman C Superbike, Heath Small in Sportsman B Superbike, and Mike Smith in Sportsman A Superstock.

Other Expert race winners Wednesday included: William Mayfield in Vintage Six Heavyweight, Chris Thompson in Vintage Six Lightweight, Joe Pomery in Formula Two-stroke, Tim Joyce in Vintage Four and Vintage Three, Brian Kcraget in Formula Two, Dale Burroughs in Vintage Seven Heavyweight, Bryan Nelson in Vintage Seven Lightweight, Stuart Carter in Formula 500cc, Eric Cook in Vintage Two, Doug Bowie in 350cc GP and 250cc GP, Andrew Weiss in D Superstock, “Ted” Cobb in Super Motard and Clubman, “Buff” Harsh in Vintage One, John Rickard in 500cc GP and Dick Gruhn in Vintage Five.


More, from a press release issued by Moto Britalia:

Cobb takes 2 National Championships at Road Atlanta

This year’s WERA Grand National Final saw the return of Ted “Cannonball” Cobb, aboard Moto Britalia’s Yamaha 450 Super Motard. After winning 5 of 6 races during the regular season, Cobb dominated the Expert Super Motard race at the GNF, winning by 46.977 seconds ahead of second place. “I have to give credit to Moto Britalia for building one super fast Motard” said Cobb. “The harder I pushed it, the better the bike worked. Hats off to Bob Henderson, who did the final tune on the engine before the race, the bike ran awesome!”

Cobb also took the overall win in the combined 125cc GP, Clubman race. After three red flags, the race was postponed until the end of the day. Under changing weather conditions, and starting from the second wave, Cobb worked his way up thru the 125cc GP bikes to take the overall win in the shortened 6 lap final. ” I didn’t think we would get the race in” said Cobb. “It was getting pretty dark, and then by lap 2 it started to rain over in the back section. I just kept my head down and the bike was hooking up really well.” Cobb, who is an instructor with the Kevin Schwantz Suzuki School, also said “I didn’t want to do anything stupid out there, I’m leaving next week to do a School in Japan with Schwantz, and I need to be in one piece!”

More information about Ted Cobb and Moto Britalia can be found at www.motobritalia.com