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YOSHIMURA SUZUKI MEN DOMINATE
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YOSHIMURA SUZUKI MEN DOMINATE
September 3, 2007
Team Suzuki Press Office - September 3, 2007.
Yoshimura Suzuki's Mat Mladin broke his own record for the most AMA
Superbike wins
in a single season by picking up his 12th victory at Road Atlanta in
Braselton,
Georgia on Sunday.
It was Mladin's sixth AMA Superbike race win in a row as well as his
63rd career
victory in the class which gave the six-time AMA Superbike Champion
command of the
AMA Superbike points chase going into the series' final round at Laguna
Seca later
this month.
Team mate and defending AMA Superbike Champion Ben Spies followed Mladin
home in
second place while Tommy Hayden finished in seventh place.
Sunday's 20-lap race was the second of two AMA Superbike races in this
weekend's
double-header event.
Mat Mladin:
"Our goal this year was to try and win as many races on the Yoshimura
Suzuki
GSX-R1000 as possible. With some bad starts and a couple of crashes
we've given away
a few. But we're in a good position and it's nice to win and it's nice
to get the
Suzuki working so well that we can pull away a little bit when we need
to. Laguna
Seca is going to be a good race and we're looking forward to it."
Ben Spies:
"We had a pretty good race; I rode as hard as I could the whole time. We
ran into a
few tyre problems and I figured that I would just ride as hard as I
could and, with
the pace Mat was going, maybe he'd run into a problem. I couldn't see
him going that
fast and not having a problem, but he didn't. We didn't make any big
mistakes - we
just didn't have the speed today - but I rode as hard as I could and
that's all I
could do. The Suzuki worked pretty good and we're just going to go to
Laguna now and
go for the win. Laguna's been a good track to us in the past so
hopefully we'll get
it done there. It should be a good last race."
Tommy Hayden:
"I felt all right today but not as good as yesterday. We made some
changes to the
Suzuki from yesterday and we went the wrong way. We had a good bike
yesterday but
just a small problem. We tried to fix that - and we did - but we also
created some
other issues in doing that. It wasn't what I'd hoped for. Now I'm just
working with
my crew to get ready for Laguna Seca and finish the season on a positive
note."
All of Suzuki's road race teams will return for the final round of the
AMA Superbike
Series at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California, the weekend
of Sept. 15
- 16, 2007.
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. Roger Hayden (Kawasaki)
6. Jake Zemke (Honda)
7. Tommy Hayden (Yoshimura Suzuki)
8. James Ellison (Honda)
9. Jake Holden (Jordan Suzuki)
10. Eric Bostrom (Yamaha)
AMA Superbike Points Standings:1. Mladin 618, 2. Spies 615, 3. Zemke
441, 4. Yates
436,5. Hayden 429, 6. Hacking 403, 7. Duhamel 360, 8. R. Hayden, 344, 9.
Bostrom
336, 10. Disalvo 335.
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 broke his own record for the most AMA
Superbike wins
in a single season by picking up his 12th victory at Road Atlanta in
Braselton,
Georgia on Sunday.
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.
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