Copyright 2003, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

Kawasaki’s Eric Bostrom rode his Dunlop-rain-tire-shod ZX-7RR to a dominant victory Sunday on a wet but drying course at Road America. Not only did Bostrom take his second Superbike race win in the last three races and 11th win of his career, he took over the AMA Superbike points lead by one point over Mat Mladin, who finished 10th today.

Yoshimura Suzuki’s Aaron Yates finished second, over 32 seconds behind Bostrom, after a long battle with Dream Team Ducati’s Larry Pegram, who finished third.

American Honda’s Miguel Duhamel was the only rider who gambled on conditions at the start of the “wet” race and went with cut slick tires. The French-Canadian rider started slowly and was able to score fourth but only after passing Shawn Higbee, Jason Pridmore and Ben Bostrom on the last lap.

Mladin started on rain tires, pitted on lap eight for slicks, ran the fastest lap of the race on the final circuit (2:25.235) but only worked his way back up to 10th.

Yates crashed on the cool-off lap, extensively damaging his GSX-R1000.

Provisional AMA Superbike Race Two Results:

1. Eric Bostrom, Kawasaki ZX-7RR, 16 laps
2. Aaron Yates, Suzuki GSX-R1000, – 32.623 seconds
3. Larry Pegram, Ducati 998RS, – 42.818 seconds
4. Miguel Duhamel, Honda RC51, -46.090 second
5. Ben Bostrom, Honda RC51, – 46.588 seconds
6. Jason Pridmore, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -47.917 seconds
7. Shawn Higbee, Suzuki GSX-R1000, – 51.126 seconds
8. Michael Barnes, Suzuki GSX-R1000, – 102.022 seconds
9. Kurtis Roberts, Honda RC51, -122.400 seconds
10. Mat Mladin, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -122.802 seconds
11. Dean Mizdal, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -145.737 seconds
12. Tom Wertman, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -145.866 seconds
13. Geoff May, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -1 lap
14. Scott Jensen, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -1 lap
15. Jeremy Toye, Suzuki GSX-R750, -1 lap
16. Monte Nichols, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -1 lap
17. Jeff Bostrom, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -1 lap
18. Jason Knupp, Suzuki, -1 lap
19. Roger Hendricks, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -1 lap
20. J.J. Roetlin, Suzuki GSX-R750, -1 lap
21. John Haner, Suzuki GSX-R750, -1 lap
22. Mike Sullivan, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -1 lap
23. Jake Holden, Suzuki GSX-R750, -1 lap
24. Doug Duane, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -2 laps
25. Kevin Lehman, Yamaha YZF-R1, -2 laps
26. Anthony Gobert, Ducati 998RS, -6 laps, DNF, mechanical
27. Dr. Jeffrey Purk, Suzuki GSX-R750, DNF, -6 laps
28. Mike Ciccotto, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -9 laps
29. Jordan Szoke, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -11 laps
30. John Jacobi, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -12 laps


Provisional AMA Superbike Point Standings:

1. Eric Bostrom, 294 points
2. Mladin, 293 points
3. Yates, 276 points
4. Ben Bostrom, 274 points
5. Roberts, 272 points
6. Duhamel, 246 points
7. Pegram, 211 points
8. Higbee, 207 points
9. Pridmore, 200 points
10. Vincent Haskovec, 159 points