Team Previews Of The AMA Event At Brainerd

Team Previews Of The AMA Event At Brainerd

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From press releases issued by Proforma:

MILLENNIUM TECHNOLOGIES SUZUKI HEADS TO THE LAND OF 10,000 LAKES

The Millennium Technologies Suzuki team with riders Danny Eslick and Shawn Higbee will be racing this weekend, June 25-27, at round seven of the AMA Chevrolet Superbike Championship at Brainerd International Raceway in Brainerd, Minnesota. Both riders come to this event hoping to capitalize on strong finishes at the previous round at Road America, where they were able to take advantage of the strong KWS Motorsports-built engines on the circuit’s long straights. Brainerd features a nearly mile-long front straight that puts a premium on horsepower and the ability to use the draft.

Danny Eslick
“I can’t wait for Brainerd,” said Danny, the young-gun who currently sits 8th in Lockhart Phillips USA Formula Xtreme point standings, even though the decision to run the class was made after the Daytona round. “It’s another track I’ve never been to, but I’ve watched the tapes and I think I’ll do well there. It looks kinda bumpy, but, hey, I’m a dirt tracker, bumps don’t bother me!” Danny also lies 14th in the Pro Honda Oils Supersport point standings, missing points from a DNS at Infineon Raceway from a blown fork seal.

Shawn Higbee
Shawn comes into the Brainerd round 15th in season point standings in the Chevrolet Superbike class. Between not running the Daytona 200, a couple of rare crashes at the Fontana round and a broken battery cable at Infineon Raceway, Higbee only scored one point in the first four rounds. Since then, though, Shawn has earned several top-ten finishes in the class and is climbing in the points. “Our original plan was to just run in Superstock, but there’s too many factory bikes in that class to have a realistic chance at doing well, so we switched over to Superbike,” said Shawn. “We ran a couple of the Superbike races with the Superstock motor, but now Kevin (Hunt, team owner) has given me something closer to last year’s motor, which gives me a little more to work with. It’ll be a big help down the straight at Brainerd. I finished ninth there last year, I want to do better this year.”


HEATH SMALL AT BRAINERD THIS WEEKEND

Rider Heath Small and the HAS/Shogun Racing team will be at Brainerd, Minnesota this weekend, June 25-27 for round seven of the AMA Chevrolet Superbike Championship. Heath comes to the Brainerd International Raceway event after strong finishes at the previous round at Road America in Wisconsin two weeks ago.

“I’m looking forward to Brainerd,” said Small. “I didn’t get to race here last year because I was injured, but I was here in 2002 on the Ducati in Pro Thunder. I got to ride last weekend at a CMRA event at Texas World Speedway, tested a few things and made some improvements to the Supersport bike. And I’ve gotten to ride a fair bit of dirt track lately, so that’s helping me stay fit and have some fun, too.”

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