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AMA Pro Racing is planning to hold a small test on the infield road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The test is tentatively scheduled for October 1, the Wednesday following the September 28 FIA Formula One car race at the famed “Brickyard.”

Austin Ducati and Erion Honda are the only teams expected to attend.

“We’ve said we will,” said Erion Honda team owner Kevin Erion Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park, “but we’re waiting for the AMA to come back and say OK. There are still a few ducks they had to get in their row to make sure it could happen, but we agreed to go.”

Erion said only Jake Zemke would ride at the test, and he would only ride his Honda CBR954RR Formula Xtreme bike. “Because they are only interested in big-bike feedback,” said Erion.

“They want to see if it is doable, if it’s safe enough,” said Ducati Austin’s Vic Fasola.

AMA Pro Racing CEO Scott Hollingsworth, who is at Barber Motorsports Park, declined to comment on the test prior to post time.


Update: Hollingsworth has confirmed plans for a limited feasibility test on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s infield road course.

“We’ve been working with the facility now for two or three years,” said Hollingsworth Sunday in the media center at Barber Motorsports Park. “We went there before they laid it out. We’ve been watching its progress. We made comments at the time they designed it to make sure that it was adequate for motorcycles.

“There will be some issues that we’ve got to look at. We want to see bikes on the track to make sure it’s suitable. Most of the interior road portion we expect to be fine, and we’ve got plans to address the one kind of known issue.”

Hollingsworth said the “known issue” was the first turn on the speedway oval, which is taken in the opposite direction when the road course is utilized. The outside of the high-speed turn is lined with retaining walls.

Hollingsworth said a chicane has been designed and would be installed for any race at Indy but no chicane will be used during the proposed test.

“We just want to get them out there, take a look and make sure it’s something we can do if we’re presented the opportunity to,” said Hollingsworth.

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Barber Motorsports Park announced the following as its official attendance figures:

Friday – 8000
Saturday – 17,000
Sunday – 23,000

Three-day total – 48,000

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AMA Supersport Race Results:

1. Tommy Hayden, Kawasaki, 17 laps
2. Damon Buckmaster, Yamaha, -0.626 second
3. Miguel Duhamel, Honda, -0.637 second
4. Aaron Gobert, Yamaha, -1.777 seconds
5. Jamie Hacking, Yamaha, -5.300 seconds
6. Jake Zemke, Honda, -8.238 seconds
7. Alex Gobert, Honda, -8.296 seconds
8. Roger Lee Hayden, Honda, -8.758 seconds
9. Tony Meiring, Kawasaki, -8.981 seconds
10. Blake Young, Honda, -14.031 seconds
11. Lee Acree, Yamaha, -14.290 seconds
12. Jamie Stauffer, Suzuki, -15.513 seconds
13. Ty Howard, Honda, -19.359 seconds
14. Jason DiSalvo, Yamaha, -20.235 seconds
15. Greg Myers, Yamaha, -27.994 seconds
16. Marty Craggill, Honda, -28.020 seconds
17. Dirk Sanchez, Kawasaki, -28.303 seconds
18. Logan Young, Yamaha, -32.380 seconds
19. Chris Peris, Honda, -32.450 seconds
20. Steven Breckenridge, Triumph, -33.444 seconds
21. Matt McBride, Kawasaki, -39.577 seconds
22. Hector Romero, Yamaha, -39.907 seconds
23. James Stroud, Honda, -47.832 seconds
24. Chad Klock, Kawasaki, -1 lap
25. Michael Sanchez, Yamaha, -1 lap
26. Chris Rankin, Honda, -1 lap
27. Jeremy Haiduk, Yamaha, -1 lap
28. Greg White, Yamaha, -1 lap
29. Scotty Van Scoik, Suzuki, -1 lap
30. Anthony Ian Cammack, Suzuki, -1 lap
31. Taylor Knapp, Yamaha, -2 laps
32. Michael Morgan, Suzuki, -3 laps
33. Nathan Dressman, Yamaha, -4 laps
34. Chris Siebenhaar, Honda, -6 laps
35. Nathan Hester, Yamaha, -7 laps
36. Jeff Wood, Yamaha, -10 laps, DNF
37. Ben Spies, Suzuki, DNS

Darren Luck, Suzuki, DQ, oversized engine


Final AMA Supersport Point Standings:

1. Hacking, 334 points, 4 wins
2. Buckmaster, 326 points, 1 win
3. Tommy Hayden, 250 points, 2 wins
4. Alex Gobert, 241 points
5. Zemke, 240 points, 1 win
6. Aaron Gobert, 239 points
7. Meiring, 238 points
8. Roger Lee Hayden, 230 points
9. Ben Spies, 228 points, 1 win
10. DiSalvo, 221 points
11. Duhamel, 184 points, 1 win
12. Jason Curtis, 155 points
13. Stauffer, 154 points
14. Doug Chandler, 110 points
15. Peris, 104 points
16. Craggill, 103 points
17. Howard, 99 points
18. Dirk Sanchez, 88 points
19. Giovanni Rojas, 79 points
20. Darren Luck, 57 points

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Sunday Morning AMA Practice Times:

Superbike:

1. Kurtis Roberts, Honda RC51, 1:47.027
2. Miguel Duhamel, Honda RC51, 1:49.360
3. Ben Bostrom, Honda RC51, 1:50.243
4. Giovanni Bussei, Ducati 998RS, 1:51.458
5. Steve Rapp, Suzuki GSX-R750, 1:51.600
6. Mat Mladin, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 1:53.752
7. Aaron Yates, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 1:55.810
8. C.R. Gittere, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 1:58.765
9. Tom Wertman, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 1:59.779
10. Vincent Haskovec, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 2:02.243
11. Chris Ulrich, Suzuki GSX-R750, 2:04.123
12. Michael Barnes, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 2:11.109
13. Eric Wood, Suzuki GSX-R750, 2:11.949
14. Scott Jensen, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 2:13.533
15. Brian Stokes, Suzuki GSX-R750, 2:22.847


Formula Xtreme:

1. Ben Spies, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 1:52.766
2. Jake Zemke, Honda CBR954RR, 1:54.789
3. Marty Craggill, Honda CBR954RR, 1:55.864
4. Roger Lee Hayden, Honda CBR954RR, 1:56.776
5. James Ellison, Suzuki GSX-R750, 2:22.382


250cc Grand PRix:

1. Rich Oliver, Yamaha, 1:54.333
2. Perry Melneciuc, Yamaha, 2:05.765
3. John France, Honda, 2:05.968
4. Sandy Noce, Yamaha, 2:07.960
5. Geoffrey Maloney, Yamaha, 2:08.888
6. Steve Scott, Yamaha, 2:16.317
7. Ed Sorbo, Yamaha, 2:18.035
8. Sean Wray, Yamaha, 2:18.064
9. Shawn Murray, Honda, 2:20.658
10. Ed Marchini, Yamaha, 2:32.636
11. Mark Stiles, Yamaha, 2:34.330

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AMA practice at Barber Motorsports Park is currently on hold due to rain and standing water at the apexes of many corners, according to an AMA Pro Racing official.

AMA Supersport riders had already completed their Sunday morning warm-up in dry conditions when rain began to fall at the start of the 250cc Grand Prix practice.

Update: At 10:20 a.m. Central Time, the 250cc GP class was sent out on track even though it was still raining steadily.

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Sunday Morning AMA Supersport Practice Times:

1. JASON DISALVO, Yamaha, 1:28.686
2. TOMMY HAYDEN, Kawasaki, 1:28.921
3. BEN SPIES, Suzuki, 1:28.945
4. AARON GOBERT, Yamaha, 1:29.049
5. ALEX GOBERT, Honda, 1:29.056
6. JAMIE HACKING, Yamaha, 1:29.069
7. MIGUEL DUHAMEL, Honda, 1:29.445
8. TONY MEIRING, Kawasaki, 1:29.454
9. JAKE ZEMKE, Honda, 1:29.595
10. DAMON BUCKMASTER, Yamaha, 1:29.667
11. MARTY CRAGGILL, Honda, 1:29.989
12. ROGER LEE HAYDEN, Honda, 1:30.206
13. TY HOWARD, Honda, 1:30.311
14. LEE ACREE, Yamaha, 1:30.924
15. CHRIS PERIS, Honda, 1:31.012
16. JAMIE STAUFFER, Suzuki, 1:31.029
17. JEFF WOOD, Yamaha, 1:31.118
18. HEATH SMALL, Yamaha, 1:31.467
19. CHRIS RANKIN, Honda, 1:31.526
20. BLAKE YOUNG, Honda, 1:31.888

31. GREG WHITE, Yamaha, 1:35.092

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The AMA Supersport race at Barber Motorsports Park was stopped on lap 13 of 17 for a crashed bike lying on the course.

At the time of the crash, Miguel Duhamel and Aaron Gobert were racing fiercely for the lead with Damon Buckmaster and Tommy Hayden not far behind.

Jamie Hacking was cruising in fifth, which would have been enough for him to win the AMA Supersport Championship. He only needed to finish eighth or better if Buckmaster won the race and led the most laps.

The race started on a damp but drying track and will be restarted for six more laps.

The restart will give riders who chose to go with rain tires a chance to change to dry race tires. Riders who started the race on some form of rain tire included Lee Acree, Marty Craggill, Ty Howard and Jeff Wood.

The cause of the red flag was a crash by Taylor Knapp, which left Knapp’s Yamaha lying on the course between turns 13 and 14. After the red flag, Knapp appeared to be uninjured, and the teen helped remove his motorcycle from the track.

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Graves Yamaha’s Jamie Hacking won the AMA Formula Xtreme race Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama over Erion Honda’s Jake Zemke, but Yoshimura Suzuki’s Ben Spies, third Sunday, won the 2003 AMA Formula Xtreme Championship.

After earning the bonus point for pole position Saturday, Spies, 19, only needed to finish 24th or better in the final to win his first AMA Championship.

Damon Buckmaster, the only other rider with a mathematical chance at winning the FX Championship, ran a competitive third before being passed by Spies in the late going and finishing fourth.

Attack Suzuki’s Josh Hayes rode his AMA Superstock Championship-winning GSX-R750 to fifth.


AMA Formula Xtreme Race Results:

1. Jamie Hacking, Yamaha YZF-R1, 17 laps
2. Jake Zemke, Honda CBR954RR, -5.029 seconds
3. Ben Spies, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -7.656 seconds
4. Damon Buckmaster, Yamaha YZF-R1, -12.599 seconds
5. Josh Hayes, Suzuki GSX-R750, -19.897 seconds
6. Marty Craggill, Honda CBR954RR, -26.085 seconds
7. Adam Fergusson, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -37.111 seconds
8. James Ellison, Suzuki GSX-R750, -49.104 seconds
9. Ty Howard, Honda CBR954RR, -62.705 seconds
10. Corey Eaton, Suzuki GSX-R750, -65.651 seconds
11. Andrew Deatherage, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -85.925 seconds
12. Mark Ledesma, Honda CBR929RR, -89.598 seconds
13. Darin Edwards, Suzuki GSX-R750, -90.658 seconds
14. David Bell, Suzuki GSX-R750, -90.793 seconds
15. C.R. Gittere, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -1 lap
16. Rick Narup, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -1 lap
17. Chad Rolland, Suzuki GSX-R750, -1 lap
18. Nathan Hester, -1 lap
19. Joseph Dawson, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -1 lap
20. Bob Siebenhaar, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -1 lap
21. Brian Boyd, Suzuki GSX-R1000, -1 lap
22. K.W. Burgess, Suzuki GSX-R750, -1 lap
23. Roger Lee Hayden, Honda CBR954RR, -13 laps, DNF
24. Mark Vandal, Yamaha YZF-R1, -13 laps, DNF

Unofficial AMA Formula Xtreme Point Standings:

1. Spies, 318 points
2. Buckmaster, 285 points
3. Zemke, 281 points
4. Hayes, 267 points
5. Fergusson, 236 points
6. Hacking, 218 points
7. Craggill, 217 points
8. Steve Rapp, 176 points
9. Jason Pridmore, 172 points
10. Roger Lee Hayden, 143 points