From a press release issued by Pirelli’s advertising and public relations agency, Plummer Menapace:

PIRELLI RACE REPORT: ROAD AMERICA, ISLE OF MAN, WORLD ENDURANCE

Pirelli AMA Privateers Hold Their Own At Road America; Big Weekend In Europe

(Rome, GA) The AMA Chevrolet Superbike Championship weekend at Road America saw Pirelli’s band of privateers score some solid top-10 finishes in each class.

Following Superbike rounds nine and ten, Geoff May, is still holding a solid fifth place in points, despite blowing three engines by Saturday afternoon. Mechanical problems notwithstanding, he still carded an eighth on Saturday and a ninth on Sunday on a bike borrowed from David Bell of Bell’s Suzuki – also a Pirelli team – who had also lent May a bike at the Pikes Peak round when mechanical gremlins first plagued May’s essentially stock Suzuki GSX-R1000 that he’s raced since the beginning of the season. May and his “stock” bike held an amazing fourth place in Superbike points until Pikes Peak when Eric Bostrom moved past him following E-Boz’s first season win. “I can’t say enough about David Bell, he’s been great. I wouldn’t have been able to race without him,” May said following Sunday’s final. Triangle Cycles’ Larry Pegram rode his Pirelli-mounted Yamaha R1 to an eighth place finish on Superbike race two on Sunday.

Championsonline.com/Prieto Racing’s Michael Barnes continues to wring everything possible from his largely-stock, Pirelli Supercorsa-shod Yamaha R6 against the factory riders, carding an eighth in Road America’s Supersport final. Barnes did it the way he’s been doing it since forever – on sheer riding talent. He now holds an impressive seventh place in points in the highly-competitive class. Teenage young guns Blake Young and Nicky Moore finished 11th and 14th respectively on a Pirelli-equipped Suzuki and Honda.

Lion Racing’s Jake Holden raced to seventh place in the Superstock final. The finish moved him into a tie with Damon Buckmaster for eighth place in championship points. For a reason unknown at press time, Holden sat out the Formula Xtreme race, a class in which he’s fifth in points. But Pirelli riders made their presence felt. Mike Ciccotto, on a Pirelli-equipped Hal’s Harley-Davidson Buell XB9R, finished seventh, followed by Pirelli’s Pegram in eighth and Blake Young in tenth. Pirelli continues to hold fifth, sixth, ninth, and tenth in the points with Holden, Pegram, Nathan Hester, and Perry Melnecuic. Neither Hester nor Melnecuic had their best weekends: Hester finished 15th; Melnecuic, 16th.

In weekend road racing overseas, Pirelli racers swept the first five positions in the Formula One TT, Saturday’s opening race of this year’s Isle of Man event. In gaining his fourth IOM TT victory, John McGuinness also shattered the lap record with a lap of 127.69mph on his Honda CBR1000RR equipped with Pirelli’s latest 16.5-inch slicks. The FIM World Endurance road racing championship round at Albacete, Spain saw Pirelli’s GMT94 Yamaha team finish second to arch rivals, Suzuki Castrol in the 12-hour race. Pirelli’s Yamaha Austria and Switzerland’s Kawasaki Bolliger finished fourth and fifth respectively, giving Pirelli three of the top five positions.