Mladin Set For This Weekend’s Tri-State Race At Eastern Creek

Mladin Set For This Weekend’s Tri-State Race At Eastern Creek

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From a press release issued by Mat Mladin’s publicist, Steve Reeves:

Round 6, Yamaha Xtreme Tri-State Series
Eastern Creek Raceway, NSW
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FORMULA XTREME CHALLENGE FOR MLADIN THIS WEEKEND

After a six year absence, former Australian Superbike Champion and three times American AMA Superbike Champion Mat Mladin will take part in an Australian national race meeting as he grids up in the premier Formula Xtreme class as part of the sixth and final round of this year’s Yamaha Xtreme Tri-State being held at Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway.

The meeting will not only be Mladin’s first race appearance here for some time, but it will also be the first time that he has raced the powerful Suzuki GSX-R1000 and taken part in the Formula Xtreme category in Australia.

Since returning home after the completion of his American AMA Superbike Championship season in August, Mladin has been preparing the GSX-R1000 out of his Mat Mladin Motorcycles dealership at nearby Narellan, southwest of Sydney. The project is a very exciting one for Mladin as he is incorporating products which he is a distributor for such as Yoshimura performance parts, but also to show that very competitive racebikes can be built at a very realistic cost.

Mladin has had the opportunity to take to the test track on three occasions in recent weeks and has been very impressed by the initial performance and competitiveness of the bike at such an early stage of its development.

“The project is coming along well,” said Mladin. “I’m really impressed with how the Suzuki GSX-R1000 runs with such limited amount of work and time spent on the bike. It’s been something that the mechanics at the dealership have enjoyed being a part of. We will be joined on the weekend by my mechanic from the last seven years Reg O’Rourke and he will bring a heap of experience into the team and will be an asset over the weekend.

“Essentially the bike hit the racetrack three weeks ago and we’ve had three days testing on it there, so what we have been able to achieve with a bike with bolt-on parts, it’s been very impressive,” added Mladin. “If we had more time to develop the bike, I’m sure it would be a lot better, but given the time that we have had, it’s at a very good level right now. All we want to do is show people that you can be competitive in the top class of racing such as Formula Xtreme and that you don’t have to be part of a factory team or have a huge budget to build a bike that is competitive as per the rules of the class.”

This weekend’s on-track activities begin on Saturday morning from 9:00 a.m. with qualifying for all classes, with the premier Formula Xtreme completing two qualifying sessions in readiness for Sunday’s four 8-lap sprint races. Sunday’s program begins with warm up sessions from 9:00 a.m., with the first of the day’s many races beginning at approximately 10:00 a.m..

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