RECORD-BREAKING WIN FOR SPIES!
Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing's Ben Spies won Saturday's
AMA Superbike race at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
- a record-breaking seven AMA Superbike wins on the trot!
The two-time AMA Superbike Champion was the pole-sitter in
this race - the first of two in the double-header weekend
- and led all 16 laps to victory on his Rockstar Makita Suzuki
GSX-R1000. In addition to this being Spies' seventh win of
the season, it also marks his 25th AMA Superbike career win.
Six-time AMA Superbike Champion Mat Mladin got off the line
with his team mate and battled for the lead. In the end, however,
Mladin brought home a strong second-place result.
Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing's Tommy Hayden is recovering
from injuries sustained at a recent round of AMA Superbike
and did not race.
Ben Spies:
"The weekend was really good, other than my throwing
the bike down in practice this morning. It was a tough race,
the pace was really hot. Mat was staying right there, making
me work for it. I've got to thank my guys because they had
to build me a new bike after I crashed. We're going to do
everything we can to try and win another one tomorrow on the
Rockstar Makita Suzuki GSX-R1000. Right now we want to get
another Superbike title and if we accomplish that by winning
races and setting records, then great. But basically, we need
to finish in front of Mat and to do that we're just going
to keep doing what we've been doing because that seems to
be working for us."
Mat Mladin:
"We're going to go back and try to get the bike a little
better tonight and try for a better race tomorrow. We tried
our hardest today on the Rockstar Makita Suzuki GSX-R1000
but Ben was too quick for us today. His bike was fast, we
were slower all weekend and we've been struggling a bit on
the straights… But after about four or five laps, I
tried to put it in tight underneath him but I couldn't quite
make it stick. We need to find some straight-line speed to
give us a chance. We'll see if we can give him more of a hurry-up
tomorrow."
AMA Superbike Top 10 Finishers:
1. Ben Spies (Rockstar Makita Suzuki)
2. Mat Mladin (Rockstar Makita Suzuki)
3. Jamie Hacking (Kawasaki)
4. Neil Hodgson (Honda)
5. Miguel Duhamel (Honda)
6. Aaron Yates (Jordan Suzuki)
7. Jason Disalvo (Yamaha)
8. Eric Bostrom (Yamaha)
9. Geoff May (Jordan Suzuki)
10. Alastair Seeley (Suzuki)
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