Provisional AMA Superbike Race Results: 1. Mat Mladin, Suzuki, 16 laps 2. Ben Spies, Suzuki, -6.377 seconds 3. Jake Zemke, Honda, -6.832 seconds 4. Eric Bostrom, Ducati, -7.379 seconds 5. Aaron Yates, Suzuki, -13.350 seconds 6. Josh Hayes, Kawasaki, -41.796 seconds 7. Kurtis Roberts, Honda, -46.307 seconds 8. Steve Rapp, Suzuki, -57.986 seconds 9. Lee Acree, Suzuki, -75.908 seconds 10. Clint McBain, Suzuki, -75.973 seconds 11. Jimmy Moore, Suzuki, -76.602 seconds 12. Cory West, Suzuki, -96.877 seconds 13. Akira Tamitsuji, Suzuki, -97.123 seconds 14. Eric Wood, Suzuki, -112.038 seconds 15. Jeremy Toye, Honda, -128.852 seconds 16. Andrew Deatherage, Suzuki, -130.616 seconds 17. Scott Jensen, Suzuki, -139.342 seconds 18. Dean Mizdal, Suzuki, -143.605 seconds 19. Neil Hodgson, Ducati, -1 lap, mechanical 20. C.R. Gittere, Suzuki, -1 lap, 123.574 seconds 21. David Bell, Suzuki, -1 lap, 139.976 seconds 22. Miguel Duhamel, Honda, -1 lap, 141.077 seconds, pitted, mechanical 23. J.J. Roetlin, Suzuki, -1 lap, 149,823 seconds 24. Peter Holzinger, Suzuki, -1 lap, 156.040 seconds 25. Brian Boyd, Suzuki, -1 lap, 157.560 seconds 26. Larry Pegram, Honda, -2 laps, DNF, mechanical 27. Greg Fryer, Yamaha, -2 laps 28. Francis Martin, Suzuki, -9 laps, DNF, mechanical 29. James Kerker, Honda, -10 laps, DNF, mechanical 30. Jeff Tigert, Honda, -11 laps, DNF 31. Jake Holden, Suzuki, -14 laps, DNF, mechanical 32. Marty Craggill, Suzuki, -16 laps, DNF, mechanical 33. Tony Meiring, Suzuki, -16 laps, DNF 34. John Haner, Suzuki, -16 laps, DNF, crash 35. Eric Haugo, Suzuki, -16 laps, DNF, crash 36. Geoff May, Suzuki, DNS 37. Steve Crevier, Honda, DNS 38. Brent George, Suzuki, DNS 39. Jason Perez, Yamaha, DNS Provisional AMA Superbike Championship Point Standings (after 10 of 17 races): 1. Mladin, 325 points 2. Spies, 300 points 3. Yates, 265 points 4. Hodgson, 249 points 5. Bostrom, 231 points 6. Duhamel, 204 points 7. TIE, Zemke/Craggill, 186 points 9. TIE, Hayes/Acree, 178 points 11. Rapp, 165 points 12. Pegram, 159 points 13. Wood, 148 points 14. Jimmy Moore, 135 points 15. Scott Jensen, 130 points 16. West, 118 points 17. McBain, 115 points 18. Holden, 101 points 19. Roberts, 99 points 20. Haner, 95 points More, from a press release issued by Honda Racing Information: Zemke on Podium at Road America American Honda’s Jake Zemke put the Honda CBR1000RR on the podium in Sunday’s sun-blessed Superbike race at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, with teammate Miguel Duhamel very nearly joining him. Zemke ran a strong second for the entire race on the high-speed, four-mile track, finding new speed in the new power-up engine of the Honda CBR1000RR. With second place within sight, Zemke was balked by a lapped rider allowing Ben Spies (Suzuki) the narrow opening he needed to pull in front. Zemke struck back on the uphill run to the flag, only to come up 0.455 seconds short. “Those guys have been working so hard all year long just to get us to this point to where we can actually finish on the box,” Zemke said of his Merlyn Plumlee-led crew. Duhamel was heading a four-rider fight for third when he slowed dramatically on the eighth of 16 laps. A freak mechanical gremlin caused fuel from the overflow bottle to spray into his windscreen and onto his helmet visor. Unsure of the severity of the problem, Duhamel pitted for quick repairs. He was credited with 22nd. “It’s an oversight because it’s nothing major,” Duhamel said. “Everything on the bike was great. The bike was probably the best we had all weekend.” Sunday’s race was won by Suzuki’s Mat Mladin over teammate Ben Spies and Zemke. Duhamel won his second Formula Xtreme final on a wet/dry track on Saturday with Zemke a close second after passing Michael Barnes (Suzuki) on the final lap. The American Honda teammates have shared every race victory this season, Zemke taking four wins and Duhamel two. Saturday’s Superbike race began on a wet track and ended in a deluge, race officials calling it official just past half distance. In only his second wet race, the end came a lap too late for Zemke. A turn one crash ended his day, but scoring reverted to the previous lap and he was credited with sixth. Duhamel fell on a freshly painted slick curb on the first lap, but remounted and came through the field to finish seventh. Former World Superbike Champion Neil Hodgson won his first AMA Superbike race in the downpour, with Mladin second and Kawasaki’s Josh Hayes third. Jake Zemke, 3rd, Sunday Superbike You know, I want to be racing with Mat (Mladin) for a win, not racing for third place. But you know that’s the way it goes and we got to take it one step at a time and that’s kind of what we’ve been doing all year. And our results have been getting better and better and we’re getting closer and closer to the front every weekend. Like I said, it’s just really nice to be able to give the crew this little bit of enjoyment for all their hard work. Those guys put in some long hours and it’s really tough at times and it’s just really nice to be able to be up here and see all the smiles on their faces for all their hard work. Miguel Duhamel, 22nd, Sunday Superbike It probably spewed a little bit coming out of seven and I just smelled it and when I hit the brakes it just exploded into the windscreen and into my visor. It’s not like I was thinking I could smell gas. It was all over the place. I thought the tank cracked in the front where the attachment is. But it wasn’t the case. It was the overflow bottle and the hose being too long causing pressure and spewing the gas out. I think I would have been on the podium today, for sure. Jake Zemke, 6th, Saturday Superbike I’ve only ever raced in the rain one other time so it’s all a new experience for me. It wasn’t too bad. The rain definitely started coming down there towards the end and visibility was really bad. And hydroplaning was a little bit of an issue. Just went into turn one and I had just started to ease onto the brakes and I felt them start to work and then all of a sudden nothing and I could just feel the bike was just taking off. Pretty soon the rear end started passing the front and the thing hit the steering lock and it just shot me off the high-side. Miguel Duhamel, 7th, Saturday Superbike There’s, I don’t know, a three inch wide asphalt line inside Canada Corner between the tire patches and the painted line. I was trying to put the bike in there and I just touched the painted line and boom, down I went. I picked the bike up. I thought my day was done because I saw the brake reservoir was gone. But I popped it back in and everything was right and said, ‘Let’s go back racing again.’ Went back out and brought it in. Miguel Duhamel, 1st Formula Xtreme I was just going for every wet patch I could see. Just riding all over the place. It really paid off. My tires were good. I was still saving my tire in case somebody did a different set-up than me and came close, I could have a last lap hurrah going. Thankfully, we didn’t need it. After that it was pretty easy. Just sailing out there and just trying to stay out of trouble. But it was such a tough race here. I cannot imagine how many cracks and patches of tar and different surfaces we have here. It’s really, really difficult. Jake Zemke, 2nd, Formula Xtreme I was just trying to be real safe out there. Obviously Miguel (Duhamel) and myself are in a little bit of a championship scuffle. I just wanted to make sure we came home in one piece and got some good points coming out of here. Towards the end of the race there I could see (Michael Barnes) was spinning up pretty bad and he was coming back to me pretty quick. Luckily for me he was shooting bb’s in the shape of rubber at me and I was able to go by him going into turn eight there on the last lap. All in all it’s not too bad. Second place for the day and we’ll take that and move on to the next one. Sunday Superbike: 1. Mat Mladin (Suzuki) 2. Ben Spies (Suzuki) 3. Jake Zemke (Honda) 4. Eric Bostrom (Ducati) 5. Aaron Yates (Suzuki) 6. Josh Hayes (Kawasaki) 7. Kurtis Roberts (Honda) 8. Steve Rapp (Suzuki) 9. Lee Acree (Suzuki) 10. Clint McBain (Suzuki) Saturday Superbike: 1. Neil Hodgson (Ducati) 2. Mat Mladin (Suzuki) 3. Josh Hayes (Kawasaki) 4. Ben Spies (Suzuki) 5. Marty Craggill (Suzuki) 6. Jake Zemke (Honda) 7. Miguel Duhamel (Honda) 8. Larry Pegram (Honda) 9. John Haner (Honda) 10. Akira Tamitsuji (Suzuki) Superbike Point Standings: 1. Mat Mladin (325) 2. Ben Spies (300) 3. Aaron Yates (265) 4. Neil Hodgson (249) 5. Eric Bostrom (231) 6. Miguel Duhamel (204) 7. Jake Zemke (186) Martin Craggill (186) 9. Josh Hayes (178) Lee Acree (178) Formula Xtreme: 1. Miguel Duhamel (Honda) 2. Jake Zemke (Honda) 3. Michael Barnes (Suzuki) 4. Ben Attard (Kawasaki) 5. Danny Eslick (Suzuki) 6. Alex Gobert (Honda) 7. Mike Hale (Honda) 8. Victor Chirinos (Honda) 9. Robert Jensen (Yamaha) 10. Justin Filice (Honda) More, from a press release issued by Proforma: PAINFUL DAY FOR HANER AT ROAD AMERICA John Haner had a painful day on Sunday at Road America, round 6 of the AMA Superbike Championship. Haner was already riding in pain from a broken foot he sustained in a Friday practice crash. Saturday’s Superbike rain race was easier on the foot, but both races on Sunday were held in dry conditions, meaning more painful pressure on the foot. He had a reasonable result in the morning Superstock race, but his grid position in Superbike, determined by Saturday qualifying, meant he had to get a good start and ride hard on the first few laps to make up places. John highsided exiting the new chicane, fortunate not to re-injure the foot, ending up with bruising and a headache. Sunday’s Repsol Lubricants Superstock Final – 11th Place “I didn’t get a good start and Tony Meiring came right over on me,” said John, who started from the fourth row after qualifying with his broken foot on Saturday. “It felt like a hundred guys went past me into turn one. I went into turn five on the inside and all hell broke loose. The Japanese guy hit the ground and I almost hit him and had to chop the throttle. The pack split and I just started running my own race, making some passes. I was behind Damon (Buckmaster), he was riding very well through the mid part of the laps. Our bikes were really fast, and I was able to run with him down the straightaways. Right at halfway, I caught a false neutral going into turn five and it pretty much determined where my finishing position was going to be. I had to run wide and make my little turnaround. I’m not sure how many seconds I lost, but a couple of laps later I see Damon and Jake (Holden) and I see (Steve) Rapp start coming back and I’m thinking, ‘I might be a ble to catch a couple of these guys’. But two laps from the end and my foot was killing me and it was really hard. It was much easier in the rain yesterday. Today I had to ride a lot harder and it was putting a lot of pressure on the foot.” Sunday’s Superbike Final – DNF “Well, I tried,” said John philosopically about the effort he was putting in before his highside crash on lap two, which brought out a red flag. “Gridded that far back, because of my injuries, it put me in a situation where I was trying to catch a bunch of guys that I’m faster than. Maybe I got on the gas too hard, but I don’t think that was the case. I had an issue with the chassis, where the tire just went out from underneath me, for the second time this weekend. Both times I tried to ride it out and ended up on my head. At least I’m walking around still.” More, from a press release issued by Proforma: MILLENNIUM KWS SUZUKI RIDERS BREAK THROUGH AT ROAD AMERICA Millenium KWS Suzuki team riders Blake Young and Lee Acree had some of their best finishes of the year this past weekend at round six of the AMA Superbike Championship at Road America. The riders and their crew worked hard to refine the suspension set-ups, which translated to more confidence in the corners. Lee was hindered in Saturday’s Superbike rain race with a bad face shield, but bounced back on Sunday to finish ninth in Superbike on his Suzuki GSX-R1000, with a strong run in Superstock to finish 13th. Blake, from nearby Madison, Wisconsin, avoided disaster and rebounded in the Superstock race to finish 15th, then came back an hour later and fought to a fine 11th place result in the Supersport event on his Suzuki GSX-R600. Blake Young Sunday’s Repsol Lubricants Superstock Final – 15th Place “I went up the inside, on the outside of Lee,” said Blake, referring to the run down to turn five on lap one, where two riders crashed in front of him. “I was going to follow Lee through, but Akira (Tamitsuji) took (Tony) Meiring out. Meiring crashed and his bike spun around and closed up the gap so I couldn’t go through there. Basically, Meiring started sliding into me and I had to just pick it up and make a loop right there. After that I closed on Jason Perez and passed him, but I was pretty much by myself the whole time.” Sunday’s Pro Honda Oils Supersport Final – 11th Place “Robert Jensen was in front of me and Damon Buckmaster was behind me,” Blake said of the first couple of laps. “About four laps into it Damon went by me, and I came back around him in turn one. He eventually got around me coming up the hill and I couldn’t hang onto him. It was kind of lonely for a while, then a couple of laps to go and Shawn Conrad came by me. He rode well and didn’t make many mistakes and it was hard for me to capitalize on them. On the last lap I had a killer run on him into turn 14, I went a little wide and I got on the gas up the hill but I didn’t quite get past him at the checkered flag.” Lee Acree Saturday’s Superbike Final – 16th Place “It took a few laps to get settled in,” said Lee of the rain race. “It could have gone a lot better if I could have seen, if I had put a brand new visor on. It wasn’t fogging up, but the coating on the outside was non-existent, so it was getting that sheeting action. After about three laps I couldn’t see the sides of the racetrack through Kettle Bottoms at all. I just kind of had to guess whether I was at the braking zone or not. Luckily, I didn’t overshoot anything.” Sunday’s Repsol Lubricants Superstock Final – 13th Place “Akira went underneath me and then piled it. I just waited for him to slide out of the way,” said Lee about the first-lap, turn five incident. “I think Eric (Wood) had some sort of problem. Once Jimmy (Moore) came by, we started closing back in on him a bit. My bike seemed a bit quicker than Jimmy’s up top. I could roll into corners as fast as he could, but any throttle application and the front wouldn’t track around the corner. I just couldn’t exit with him. We made a couple of changes to the forks from this morning, changed the rear ride height a bit. I think it was better.” Sunday’s Superbike Final – 9th Place “The clutch had a chatter, it was real grabby at the start,” said Lee. “I got some guys going into turn three, and it took a couple of passes to make it stick on Eric Wood. I ran down Larry Pegram, and I could run up on him under braking, and we would accordion a little bit. Maybe two laps before Larry’s tire let go, my quick shifter quit working and when it quit working it made the bike very hard to shift. I had to be really pronounced with my rolling out to upshift, and I really had to blip it to downshift. A couple of times I missed shifts going into braking areas, and it took away my ability to really run down into some of those corners.” More, from a press release issued by Team Suzuki: Team Yoshimura Suzuki’s Mat Mladin claimed his seventh AMA Superbike victory of the year with a start-to-finish win in today’s Elkhart Lake 10th round at Road America in Wisconsin. The five-time AMA Superbike Champion and current series leader crossed the line on his GSX-R1000 almost 6.5 second clear of team mate and current series number two Ben Spies with Aaron Yates fifth on his Yoshimura Suzuki. “It was a good race for us,” said Mladin from the podium. “I’m glad it stayed dry for everyone and I hope we put on a good show. This year the new Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000 is working really well for us and it’s a shame that we had a wet race yesterday, though we still got on the podium. I’d like to thank my crew because we’ve had some issues this weekend and they got the GSX-R sorted for us so we could get the win today.” In Friday afternoon’s initial qualifying session, Mladin took his 43rd career pole position and his sixth one of the year by setting a track record-breaking best lap of 2.12:553 seconds. Team mates Spies and Yates were gridded second and third respectively with Spies posting a best time of 2.13:345 and Yates a 2.14:235 in Saturday’s session. Sunday’s 16-lap Superbike race got started and then was almost immediately red flagged from a downed rider. A complete restart resulted in Mladin out front and he gradually created a gap and led the whole race to take the win. “I got the holeshot on the second start, but I was in the lead anyway so it doesn’t matter,” said Mladin of the red flag. Like Mladin, Spies got a good start on his Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000. For the first half of the race, he was in a solid fourth then moved up into third. Then, on the last lap, he made an aggressive pass and took second. “It wasn’t so much that I was chasing down the guys in front of me as I was trying to get away from the guys behind me,” laughed Spies after the race. “I’d really like to thank my guys for working so hard this weekend. I crashed twice in yesterday’s Superbike race and I haven’t made things easy on them.” Yates got a bad start after the red flag and was back in 12th place on the first lap. But he pushed his Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000 hard and made his way up through the field. Said Yates, who earlier in the day claimed victory and the series lead in the Superstock class: “I don’t know if I was tired from the Superstock win or what, but I was pretty far back and I knew I had to put my head down and push hard to get up to the front. Now I’m just looking forward to Laguna Seca next month and getting back on the podium.” Superbike Results: 1. Mat Mladin (Suzuki) 2. Ben Spies (Suzuki) 3. Jake Zemke (Honda) 4. Eric Bostrom (Ducati) 5. Aaron Yates (Suzuki) 6. Josh Hayes (Kawasaki) 7. Kurtis Roberts (Honda) 8. Steve Rapp (Suzuki) 9. Lee Acree (Suzuki) 10. Clint McBain (Suzuki)