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MLADIN WINS ROAD ATLANTA FROM SPIES
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MLADIN WINS ROAD ATLANTA FROM SPIES
September 2, 2007
Team Suzuki Press Office - September 1, 2007.
Yoshimura Suzuki's Mat Mladin won his 11th AMA Superbike race of the
season at Road
Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia today, tying his own record for most AMA
Superbike
race wins in a single season and recording his 62nd career AMA Superbike
win.
Team mate and defending champion Ben Spies finished in second place
after a crash
and a red flag which resulted in Spies re-starting from the back of the
grid. In
spite of this, he worked his way through the field to finish on the
podium behind
Mladin.
Tommy Hayden was running in an impressive fourth position when another
rider made
contact with him and he went down: He re-entered the race and charged
hard to make
it up to the top 10 before the race's end.
Mat Mladin:
"It was a good race for us today and it was good to get the win. To have
11 wins for
the year, well, it's been a pretty good season so far. We're definitely
looking at
trying to win another race tomorrow. Before the red flag today we had a
good pace on
the Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000. There were places where Ben was
very strong but I knew that we were strong also in a few spots. We were
doing our
best to just try and eke it out and try to put as much pressure on Ben
as possible.
He knows that he wants to win the championship a lot more than I do and
he knows
that you've got to win races if you're going to win the championship so
he's got to
get going. That's made for good racing out there and we're looking
forward to
tomorrow. Hopefully, we can put on a good show."
Ben Spies:
"We had pretty good speed on the Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000 before the
re-start.
That was just a little mistake; the way I threw the bike in there or
something.
After I got back to the pits I saw the bike wasn't torn up too bad. I
looked at the
lap times and told the guys that we could at least go out and get second
place
today. I set a couple decent laps in the beginning and tried to be as
patient as
possible. All together, coming in second isn't too bad after crashing
and coming
back from last place. Tomorrow we've got to find a little speed. We're
close but we
need to find something for a little edge."
Tommy Hayden:
"I've felt pretty good all weekend. In fact, this is the best I've felt
in a while.
I was looking forward to the race and I knew the start would be
important and I got
good starts both times. I got a good start in the first start and a
really good one
in the second. Then another rider took me out and that pretty much put
an end to my
race. After that I tried to get back up in case there was another red
flag and I
could try and get another good start or if not, just try and get as many
points as I
could."
AMA Superbike Top 10 Finishers:
1. Mat Mladin (Yoshimura Suzuki)
2. Ben Spies (Yoshimura Suzuki)
3. Jamie Hacking (Kawasaki)
4. Aaron Yates (Jordan Suzuki)
5. Jake Zemke (Honda)
6. Roger Hayden (Kawasaki)
7. Matt Lynn (MV Agusta)
8. Luca Scassa (MV Agusta)
9. Jake Holden (Jordan Suzuki)
10. Tommy Hayden (Yoshimura Suzuki)
AMA Superbike Points Standings:1. Ben Spies 583, 2. Mat Mladin 581, 3.
Jake Zemke
416, 4. Aaron Yates 409, 5. Tommy Hayden 405, 6. Jamie Hacking 374, 7.
Miguel
Duhamel 360, 8. Jason Disalvo 324, 9. Roger Hayden 318, 10. Eric Bostrom
315.
For more stories about Mat Mladin, click here.For photos, click here
For more stories about Ben Spies, click here.For photos, click here
For more stories about Tommy Hayden, click here.For photos, click here
Yoshimura Suzuki's Mat Mladin won his 11th AMA Superbike race of the
season at Road
Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia today, tying his own record for most AMA
Superbike
race wins in a single season and recording his 62nd career AMA Superbike
win.
Sunday afternoon's AMA Superbike race at Virginia International Raceway
in Alton,
Virginia was all about Suzuki as the manufacturer swept the podium with
Yoshimura
Suzuki's Mat Mladin and Ben Spies taking first and second place and
Michael Jordan
Motorsports Suzuki's Aaron Yates rounding out the podium in third place.
Yoshimura Suzuki's Mat Mladin celebrated a record 60th career AMA
Superbike win
after taking the victory in Saturday's AMA Superbike race at Virginia
International
Raceway in Alton, Virginia.
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