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Advanced Kawasaki will be fielding Robbie Dowie in the AMA Superstock class in select rounds on the West Coast on a 2005 Kawasaki ZX-10R. Dowie won the WSMC Toyota Cup Formula One championship in 2004. Advanced Kawasaki is Orange/L.A. County’s newest performance-oriented Kawasaki dealership, and is located in Buena Park, California. They can be reached at (714) 521-2420. Interested sponsors should contact Steve Biganski of Extreme Lean at (310) 902-0968.

Michael Jordan Breaths New Life Into Pridmore’s AMA Superbike Career Rain Washes Out Practice, Qualifying At DIS DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., (March 9, 2005) – Mid-way through the 2004 racing season Jason Pridmore was ready to hang up his racing leathers and pursue a professional golfing career. Basketball star Michael Jordan stepped in and changed all that. “Four races in, I was over the whole thing,” Pridmore admitted as he sat under a hospitality tent after rain washed out Wednesday’s practice and qualifying at historic Daytona International Speedway. “The only reason I hung around was because of my sponsors and the people that stood by me. But I got my golf game really sharp over the summer and that was my plan. There are so many good tours out there. “But then I met MJ (Michael Jordan) at Road America and we got to be really good friends. We played golf a ton during the summer and I struck up a friendship. He kind of heard some things about what was going on. I told him I was going to miss the final two races because we just didn’t have the funding. He helped me out for the last two. From that point on, we just thought how we could blend something.” As a result of those early talks Pridmore became a member of the Michael Jordan Motorsports Suzuki squad. With Pridmore’s contacts in the industry and the financial backing of Jordan, the team is perhaps the strongest independent in the history of AMA Superbike. “We went from no resources last year to all of the sudden now I’ve got one of the better crew chiefs in the paddock in Ammar Bazzaz and I’ve got this unbelievable great people around me,” said Pridmore, a two-time AMA road racing titlist and the son of three-time AMA Superbike champ Reg Pridmore. “This team is amazing. I’m with Suzuki and this team for two years. We’re going to build a foundation right now. If there’s anybody around that knows teamwork, it’s Michael Jordan.” Pridmore was 10th fastest in the first AMA Superbike practice session Wednesday morning on the new 2.95-mile DIS motorcycle course. He thinks having such a major celebrity like Jordan can only help raise the exposure of Superbike racing in the United States. “We want to let everyone know that MJ is in this for the long run,” Pridmore said. “He’s doing this as a business. It’s not just him coming in and playing around. He loves our sport and wants to help it grow. I’m just happy to be a part of it.” Jordan is expected in town this week to watch his second-year team, made up of Pridmore, Steve Rapp and Montez Stewart, compete in this year’s Daytona motorcycle races. Even though Pridmore is thankful for his new lease on life in racing, he explains being so closely associated Michael Jordan has its benefits and drawbacks. “You end up finding you had a lot more friends than you thought you did,” he says with a smile. “All of the sudden, you’re phone is ringing. It’s gotten to the point of being ridiculous for me because I have three movie scripts on my desk at work. I don’t even know how they got a hold of me.” So for now the pro golf tour will have to wait. Thanks to Jordan’s backing Pridmore is happily pursuing his road racing dreams for at least a few more years. Wednesday’s activities at the Speedway will not be rescheduled. Fans with a ticket for Wednesday’s AMA events may: — Present Wednesday AMA Superbike Practice ticket at the Grandstand gates for general admission seating for Thursday’s Qualifying and Superstock/Supersport events at Daytona International Speedway. — Exchange and upgrade ticket for $15, at Tunnel 1 or 4 on Thursday, for an infield ticket for Thursday’s Qualifying and Superstock/Supersport events at Daytona International Speedway — Visit the Daytona International Speedway Box Office to complete a refund offer and receive a full refund by mail. Tickets for any of the motorcycle events at Daytona International Speedway are available at http://www.daytonainternationalspeedway.com or by calling 1-800-PITSHOP.

NOTICE TO ALL DAYTONA SUPERSPORT AND SUPERSTOCK PARTICIPANTS Due to the wet track conditions, all remaining practice and qualifying sessions have been cancelled for Wednesday afternoon. As per the Supplemental Regulations published for this event, race grids will be determined using the system detailed below. Should circumstances prevent qualifying from being run, riders for each affected class will be gridded as follows: Pre-entered riders based on current point standings (in this case, current points are from the final standings from the 2004 season) Pre-entered riders without points by date of entry Post-entered riders by order of entry As the option of the AMA, past Champions, and/or riders from FIM World Superbike and MotoGP series may be added to the field.

“In all honesty, I didn’t feel like I got on the gas too hard or nothing like that. The rear end just snapped loose. I flipped over the highside, and the bike landed on top of me,” said Kawasaki’s Roger Lee Hayden, after crashing his factory ZX-6RR Supersport bike in practice Wednesday morning at Daytona International Speedway. “I hit my head pretty good, and the footpeg went through my knee,” continued Hayden. “So I went over to Halifax (Medical Center) this morning and got a (CT) scan and they sewed my knee back up (with six stitches). Now I’ve got matching holes in my knees.” Hayden suffered serious skin abrasions in a road cycling accident one month ago in California, causing him to miss two preseason test sessions. “The CT scan came out negative,” said Hayden. “The chief doctor over there gave me the green light (to go racing), said it was all good. They ran some other tests on my head, mainly precautionary, because my helmet was tore up pretty good. I just thank God I was wearing an Arai helmet, because it did its job.”

At 3:00 p.m. local time, AMA Pro Racing announced that the rest of Wednesday’s on-track activities were cancelled due to rain and that a revised schedule was “in the works.” The fate of qualifying sessions for the Superstock and Supersport classes was not immediately available.

If AMA qualifying sessions get rained out at Daytona International Speedway (DIS), grids will be formed starting with 2004 point standings, the order of pre-entry then the order of post-entry, according to supplementary regulations for the event. As of 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time Wednesday, during the time scheduled for the Superstock class’ only qualifying session, it was raining steadily at DIS. Supersport qualifying is scheduled to take place immediately following Superstock qualifying. AMA Pro Racing will not declare Wednesday completely rained out until officials have had a chance to study the weather forecast and meet with DIS officials, according to Superbike Series Manager Ron Barrick. That declaration could come around 3:30 p.m. local time. Barrick has also not made a decision if he will declare Superstock and Supersport qualifying “rained out” or if he will try to re-schedule them for Thursday, the day those races are scheduled to take place. “I’m not prepared to make that determination,” Barrick told Roadracingworld.com. Faced with the possibility of starting the Superstock race at Daytona from the back of the grid, Yoshimura Suzuki’s Aaron Yates said, “If that’s what’s gonna happen, it’s not gonna be too neat. I don’t know if it’s set in stone or not, but hopefully it won’t go like that. Maybe they’ll work us in a little session tomorrow. “It seems like they should go off practice times from this morning because last year’s points don’t have nothing to do with this year, really.” Several other racers would be affected by an official “rain out” of Superstock and Supersport qualifying, including Team M4 EMGO Suzuki’s Geoff May, who was third-fastest in Wednesday morning Superstock practice but was 17th in 2004 Superstock points and ninth-fastest in Supersport practice but did not race in that class at all in 2004. 2004 AMA Superstock Points: 1. Aaron Gobert 2. Jamie Hacking 3. Tommy Hayden 4. Jason DiSalvo 5. Ben Spies 6. Roger Lee Hayden 7. Steve Rapp 8. Josh Hayes 9. Jake Holden 10. Alex Gobert 11. Jason Pridmore 12. Vincent Haskovec 13. John Haner 14. Eric Wood 15. Damon Buckmaster 16. J.J. Roetlin 17. Geoff May 18. Jesse Janisch 19. Jason Curtis 20. Scott Greenwood 24. Lee Acree 48. Jimmy Moore 2004 Supersport Championship Point Standings: 1. Tommy Hayden 2. Roger Lee Hayden 3. Aaron Gobert 4. Ben Spies 5. Jason DiSalvo 6. Steve Rapp 7. Michael Barnes 8. Jamie Hacking 9. Ben Attard 10. Chris Peris 11. Tony Meiring 12. Danny Eslick 13. Lee Acree 14. Darren Luck 15. Aaron Yates 16. Jason Perez 17. Giovanni Rojas 18. Blake Young 19. Nicky Moore 20. Nathan Hester 21. Damon Buckmaster 22. John-O Bowman 23. Jason Farrell 24. Pedro Valiente 25. Chris Ulrich 40. Ty Howard 45. Scott Greenwood 53. Barrett Long 66. Jeremiah Johnson 121. Pascal Picotte