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Brian Stokes, Tray Batey, Jesse Janisch, Ben Attard and John Dugan won Sunday at the 18th annual Suzuki Cup Finals, held in conjunction with the WERA Grand National Finals, at Road Atlanta.

Stokes broke free of the pack halfway through the 10-lap GSX-R600 to win by 1.6 seconds on his Pirelli-shod Freewebtown.com/Team Embry GSX-R600. A pack of riders contested second place, including Vesrah Suzuki’s Mark Junge, Team Valvoline EMGO Suzuki’s Matt Furtek and Chris Siglin, Argo Cycles’ Scott Greenwood and XT Racing’s David Weber.

After leading at one point of the race, Weber crashed out on lap five. Siglin looked strong, but a mistake shuffled him backward. Junge came through to second place and held the spot with defensive riding on the final lap. Furtek finished third but was disqualified for being 0.2 horsepower over the horsepower limit during post-race inspections. Greenwood was promoted to third, and Siglin was elevated to fourth. Logan Young, 20, finished fifth.

The three-rider TL/SV1000 final was combined with the SV650 Cup race, and Batey took the big-bike victory on a Pirelli-equipped Vesrah Suzuki SV1000. Dunlop’s Scott Brown finished second, 23 seconds behind Batey, and Russell Masecar was third.

Bradley Champion, the defending SV650 Cup Champion, led from the first lap and pulled away to win the SV650 final by 13 seconds, but Champion was disqualified for being over horsepower on the dyno in post-race checks. 4&6 Racing’s Janisch, 16, started from the last row of the grid, joined the pack chasing Champion by the third lap and came through to take second – and what would become the win – in the final corners. Jeff Tigert finished second on a Twin Works Factory machine and Cooper Performance’s Jeff Walker was a very close third.

The GSX-R750 Cup final was red-flagged twice due to separate incidents involving Dirk Sanchez and Michael Niksa. When the race was finally started, Team Valvoline EMGO Suzuki’s Greg Moore took the lead for the third straight time, shortly before he crashed into the turn four Airfence. Moore was unhurt and the race was allowed to continue.

Reuben Frankenfield, Jake Holden, Dugan, Stokes and Attard fought for the GSX-R750 Cup Final race lead. Attard, a 23-year-old from Australia, took control of the lead on lap seven of ten and was able to hold on for the win on his Dunlop-tired Corona Ebsco Suzuki. Holden snuck by his EDR Racing teammate Dugan for second, while Stokes finished fourth. Batey came from the back of the grid to finish fifth.

No one was able to match the pace of GSX-R1000 Cup heat race winner John Haner all weekend, but the Texan crashed his Team Valvoline EMGO Suzuki in Sunday morning practice, breaking and dislocating bones in his right hand and wrist. Dugan took full advantage of the opportunity and ran away to win the GSX-R1000 final by eight seconds. TigerTeam Racing’s Jeff Tigert pulled away from Junge and Jacobi to score second. Jacobi passed Junge late in the race to take third. Junge hung on for fourth, and Byron Barbour also passed Fritz Kling late to finish fifth.