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Several AMA teams started a two-day test today at Braselton, Georgia’s Road Atlanta, site of the next round of the AMA Superbike Championship series.

Present at the test are: Yoshimura Suzuki with Mat Mladin, Aaron Yates and Ben Spies; Yamaha/Graves Yamaha with Jason DiSalvo and Aaron Gobert; the factory Kawasaki team with Tommy and Roger Lee Hayden; American Honda’s Miguel Duhamel and Ben Bostrom; Erion Honda’s Jake Zemke; Parts Unlimited Ducati Austin’s Eric Bostrom; and Team Valvoline EMGO Suzuki’s Steve Rapp and Vincent Haskovec.

At post time, Jamie Hacking had not been seen at the track and his Yamahas have not been rolled out of the truck.

Damon Buckmaster is not expected to re-join the team until a test at Virginia International Raceway in August.

Zemke is working out of the American Honda trucks. The Erion Honda truck is not at the track.

Although the track and cornerworkers were ready at 9:00 a.m., bikes did not go out on track until 10:00 a.m. local time due to sporadic rain sprinkles.

The sprinkles never affected the level of traction and bikes are reported to be lapping near full speed.

There is a 60 percent chance of thunderstorms forecast for the area of the track, including the possibility for localized heavy downpours.

Update: At approximately noon local time, DiSalvo crashed in the turn 10 chicane but was uninjured and rode his Yamaha back to the pits.