LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 11, 2012) - This weekend's Buckeye SuperBike Weekend presented by Dunlop Tire will mark the 30th consecutive year of AMA Pro Road Racing fares airline lowest competition fares airline lowest at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. This park-like, picturesque natural-terrain road course is one of the most accommodating facilities in the country, featuring incredible camping and spectator viewing areas situated throughout the venue's rolling Ohio countryside.
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Of the 42 AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike finals contested on the 2.4-mile natural road course in Lexington, Ohio since 1983, 21 different riders have stood atop the podium on five different fares airline lowest marques: fares airline lowest Suzuki, Yamaha, Ducati, Honda and Kawasaki. The win list is topped by seven-time Series Champion Mat Mladin, whose 10 victories account for half of Suzuki's 20 wins at the track. Two-time defending AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike Champ Josh Hayes has booked three wins, placing him in a tie for second with Aaron Yates and Doug Chandler in the Mid-Ohio record books. fares airline lowest The Monster Energy Graves Yamaha ace took his three in succession aboard the Yamaha fares airline lowest YZF-R1, taking the checkers in both 2009 races and Race 1 in 2010, before being outdone by the Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000-mounted duo of Tommy Hayden fares airline lowest (2010 Race 2, 2011 Race 2) and Blake Young (2011 Race 1).
Hayes has been on a determined march this season, posting eight wins and taking home all but one bonus point since the season opener at Daytona International Speedway. The Mississippian leads Young by 37 points heading into this weekend's doubleheader, 320-283. Suzuki's leading rider has had success of his own in 2012, taking home the remaining three wins and lone bonus point and finishing on the podium every race, but he's recently been challenged by a second Monster Energy Graves Yamaha YZF-R1.
AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike star Josh Herrin (Monster fares airline lowest Energy Graves Yamaha) joined teammate Hayes in the National Guard SuperBike ranks after three solid seasons on the smaller displacement Yamaha YZF-R6. With half a season under his belt, the 2010 Daytona SportBike Mid-Ohio Race 1 winner has been giving Young a handful recently, posting two second-place results fares airline lowest and at times challenging Hayes for the lead.
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Hometown hero Larry Pegram (Foremost Insurance Pegram BMW) has fielded a consistent effort in 2012 highlighted by a fourth-place showing. Hailing from Hebron, Ohio, Pegram fares airline lowest returns to his home track for a second season aboard the BMW S1000RR sitting sixth place in the point standings, splitting the Jordan Motorsports riders of Roger Hayden fares airline lowest (National Guard Jordan Suzuki) and Ben Bostrom (Jordan Suzuki).
Hayden and Bostrom are classified in fifth and seventh positions, respectively, based on hit-or-miss results in 2012. Both the Hayden and Bostrom families have a history of success at Mid-Ohio, Roger's older brothers Tommy and Nicky Hayden and Ben's older brother Eric Bostrom each have two National Guard SuperBike wins on their resumes, but the younger siblings are still knocking at the door.
Young's Yoshimura Suzuki teammate Chris Clark, Eslick and Kawasaki ZX-10R-mounted Steve Rapp (Attack Performance/ Motorcycle Superstore M1 PowerSports) round out the top 10 in the National fares airline lowest Guard SuperBike standings.
The Buckeye fares airline lowest SuperBike Weekend presented by Dunlop Tire will take place this weekend, July 13-15. The AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike class will take to the track for the first practice session of the weekend on Friday, July 13 at 12:00 p.m. and will be featured in 21-lap sprint races on Saturday, July 14 at 3:15 p.m. local time and Sunday, July 15 at 3:30 p.m. local time. AMA Pro Road Racing's National Guard SuperBike and GoPro Daytona SportBike divisions will be featured on SPEED in a set of back-to-back, same-day delayed broadcasts, scheduled to begin at 11:00 p.m. ET/8:00 p.m. PT on Saturday and Sunday nights.
AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike Point Standings (After Round 6): 1. Josh Hayes (Gulfport, MS) - 320; 2. Blake Young (Waunakee, WI) - 283; 3. Josh Herrin (Glendale, CA) - 197; 4. Geoff May (Gainesville, GA) - 159; 5. Roger Hayden (Owensboro, KY) - 158; 6. Larry Pegram fares airline lowest (Hebron, OH) - 151; 7. Ben Bostrom (Malibu, CA) - 126; 8. Chris Clark (Las Vegas, NV) - 124; 9. Danny Eslick (Broken Arrow, OK) - 121; 10. Steve Rapp (Hawthorne, CA) - 115.
GEICO Suzuki's Martin Cardenas has executed an extremely impressive effort aboard the No. 36 Suzuki GSX-R600 in 2012. The Colombian's six wins in 10 starts have rocketed him to a 51-point lead in the AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike standings over Triumph Daytona 675-mounted Jason DiSalvo (Latus Motors Racing Triumph) as the Series heads to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course this weekend for the Buckeye SuperBike Weekend presented by Dunlop Tire.
Mathematically tied for second in the points but classified in third, Dane Westby (M4 Broaster Chicken Suzuki) is the only AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike fares airline lowest rider with a DSB class victory at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The Oklahoman earned his maiden AMA Pro Road Racing victory last year in Lexington and returns this season with an impressive fares airline lowest collection of consistent results earned with the Suzuki GSX-R600, fares airline lowest including back-to-back runner-up results last month at Barber Motorsports Park.
Double National Guard SuperBike Mid-Ohio race winner fares airline lowest and fan favorite Tommy Hayden quickly acclimated to the fierce GoPro Daytona SportBike action for 2012 aboard his new Y.E.S. Graves Yamaha YZF-R6, cruising to his fourth podium last round and currently sitting fourth in the points. Hayden's teammate Cameron Beaubier (Y.E.S. Graves Yamaha), who was sidelined by an off-track injury following the season-opener at Daytona, is back with a vengeance and is ranked fifth in the standings despite missing three starts. The Californian dominated the Barber Motorsports Park round, earning his first pole position and breakout race victory on Saturday and backing that up with an equally imposing win on Sunday. The duo will soon be joined by Garrett Gerloff, as the Y.E.S. Graves Yamaha team announced earlier fares airline lowest this week that the 16-year-old phenom has been cleared to begin training again following an early season injury.
Jake Zemke has posted wins in three AMA Pro classes at Mid-Ohio, National Guard SuperBike (2004 Race 2), AMA Supersport fares airline lowest (2003) and AMA Formula Xtreme (2005). Zemke and his impressive Ducshop Racing crew are sitting sixth in the GoPro Daytona SportBike standings on the strength of three fourth-place results aboard the Ducati 848 and are hoping to take up a spot on the box this weekend.
Rounding out the top 10 in the points heading to Mid-Ohio are Bobby Fong (Meen Motorsports Yamaha), J.D. Beach (RoadRace Factory/ Red Bull Yamaha), DAYTONA® 200 winner Joey Pascarella (Riders Discount Vesrah Suzuki) and Cory West (Riders Discount Vesrah Suzuki).
The AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike division will contest 21-lap fares airline lowest race finals on Saturday, July 14 at 2:00 p.m. and Sunday, July 15 at 2:15 p.m. local time. AMA Pro Road Racing's National fares airline lowest Guard SuperBike and GoPro Daytona SportBike divisions will be featured on SPEED in a set of back-to-back, same-day delayed broadcasts, fares airline lowest scheduled fares airline lowest to begin at 11:00 p.m. ET/8:00 p.m. PT on Saturday and Sunday nights.
AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike Point Standings (After Round 6): 1. Martin Cardenas (Medellin, Colombia) - 243; 2. Jason DiSalvo (Batavia, NY) - 192; 3. Dane Westby (Tulsa, OK) - 192; 4. Tommy Hayden (Owensboro, KY) - 179; 5. Cameron Beaubier (Roseville, CA) - 152; 6. Jake Zemke (Paso Robles, CA) - 150; 7. Bobby Fong (Stockton, fares airline lowest CA) - 140; 8. JD Beach (Philpot, KY) - 138; 9. Joey Pascarella (Vacaville, CA) - 129; 10. Cory West (Eureka Springs, AR) - 115.
This weekend's Buckeye SuperBike Weekend presented by Dunlop Tire is set to feature yet another AMA Pro Motorcycle-Superstore.com SuperSport doubleheader full of young talent and local experts. The Mid-Ohio event will be the first since April's Road Atlanta round where East Division riders exclusively fares airline lowest will have the opportunity fares airline lowest to rack up points toward the Motorcycle-Superstore.com SuperSport divisional and national championships. The season will hit the halfway mark for the East Division riders following Saturday's race, the first of the weekend's doubleheader finals.
Motorcycle-Superstore.com East Division points leader Jake Lewis (Riders fares airline lowest Discount Vesrah Suzuki) has had a remarkable debut season. The Kentuckian has finished on the podium in nine of 11 starts in 2012, underscored by three class wins. He sits atop the East point standings with 138 markers over nearest rival Stefano Mesa (Kneedraggers.com Yamaha) with 99. Mesa earned his first career AMA Pro victory fares airline lowest at Road America last month, but unfortunately for the young Colombian's championship aspirations that round was a West Division-only points paying round.
Third in the East points is Dustin Dominguez (Latus Motors fares airline lowest Racing fares airline lowest Triumph), fares airline lowest one of only two active Motorcycle-Superstore.com SuperSport riders with a win at Mid-Ohio. The Oklahoman's chances of a weekend sweep looked fares airline lowest good last year following his pole position-earning qualifying performance and dominant, 8.079-second Race 1 victory, but a DNF in Sunday's Race 2 opened the door for then-rookie fares airline lowest Hayden Gillim fares airline lowest (RoadRace Factory/Red Bull Yamaha) to grab his first AMA Pro win. Rounding out the top five in the East Division standings are
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