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2004 AMA SUPERBIKES: MID-OHIO

September 3-5, Road Atlanta, Braselton, GA   2004 AMA SEASON

DOUBLE ROUND

CIRCUIT: ROAD ATLANTA

• 4.087km ; 2.54 mile circuit
• 2003 RACE WINNERS:
• Race 1, Mat Mladin, Suzuki
• Race 2, Aaron Yates, Suzuki
• 2003 POLE: Mladin, Suzuki, 1m 23.520s
• 2002 RACE WINNERS:
• Race 1, Nicky Hayden, Honda
• Race 2, Nicky Hayden, Honda
• 2001 RACE WINNERS:
• Race 1, Jamie Hacking, Suzuki
• Race 2, Mat Mladin, Suzuki

RACE RESULT

MLADIN WINS BOTH RACES: ".... The race obviously went well for us today, but I did push hard in the early laps and made a couple of little mistakes before it all started to fall into place ... Once I was able to pass Miguel and then Ben, I settled in and put about a second gap on them. We kept it stable for a while before we got to the traffic and I did a really good job in being able to get past the backmarkers which allowed us to increase the size of the gap. It all worked out well as I was able to control the pace from about mid-race holding the gap in the three to four second mark and it all worked out. I didn’t really need to race against Miguel today, as I felt that we had a motorcycle, that if we pushed hard I was confident of what it could do for 25-laps and I didn’t want to give away a race while I was thinking about the championship when we could do it without taking any serious risks. The bike was too good to settle for anything less than a win ... We’re in a good position now for the last round at Virginia. That 42-point cushion will mean that we can play the first there as it comes, see what the conditions are like when we get there and go from there. If we can finish either right behind, or even in front of Jake in the first race there then the championship should be done and that would be nice.”

SUPERBIKE RACE 2, SEP 5, 2004

• 1. Mat Mladin, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 25 laps
  2. Miguel Duhamel, Honda CBR1000RR +3.9
  3. Ben Bostrom, Honda CBR1000RR +10.6
  4. Jake Zemke, Honda CBR1000RR, +9.3
  5. Josh Hayes, Kawasaki ZX-10R
  6. John Haner, Suzuki GSX-R1000
  7. Larry Pegram, Yamaha YZF-R1
  8. Marty Craggill, Suzuki GSX-R1000
  9. Eric Wood, Suzuki GSX-R1000
  10. Geoff May, Suzuki GSX-R1000

SUPERBIKE RACE 1, SEP 4, 2004

• 1. Mat Mladin, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 25 laps
  "... Today’s race did go according to plan somewhat for us. Miguel managed to hang on throughout the race. He was about a second or so back and I had a comfortable break over him heading into the last lap, but we came across three backmarkers in the last chicane that saw the gap between us drop to 0.4 of a second as we crossed the line."
  2. Miguel Duhamel, Honda CBR1000RR +0.4
  3. Ben Bostrom, Honda CBR1000RR +8
  4. Jake Zemke, Honda CBR1000RR, +9.3
  5. Aaron Yates, Suzuki GSX-R1000
  6. John Haner, Suzuki GSX-R1000
  7. Geoff May, Suzuki GSX-R1000
  8. Eric Wood, Suzuki GSX-R1000
  9. Shawn Higbee, Suzuki GSX-R1000
  10. Chris Caylor, Suzuki GSX-R1000

SUPERSPORT RACE, SEP 5, 2004

• 1. Roger Lee Hayden, Kawasaki, 15 laps
  2. Tommy Hayden, Kawasaki, +0.1
  3. Jason DiSalvo, Yamaha, +0.41
  4. Aaron Gobert, Yamaha
  5. Ben Spies, Suzuki
  6. Damon Buckmaster, Yamaha
  7. Ben Attard, Suzuki
  8. Steve Rapp, Suzuki
  9. Michael Barnes, Yamaha
  10. Danny Eslick, Suzuki

QUALIFYING

GRID, SEP 4, 2004

• 1. Mat Mladin, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 1m 22.065s
  2. Miguel Duhamel, Honda CBR1000RR
  3. Ben Bostrom, Honda CBR1000RR
  4. Aaron Yates, Suzuki GSX-R1000
  5. Jake Zemke, Honda CBR1000RR
  6. Josh Hayes, Kawasaki ZX-10R

FRI, QUALIFYING, SEP 3, 2004

• 1. Mat Mladin, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 1m 22.917s
  "... Everything worked out well for us today ...We had a good test here after the last round at Mid-Ohio and they made further improvements to the bike and those results showed today... we went through a number of tyres that gave us some very good results, but that won’t stop us chasing a few more things in tomorrow morning’s session"
  2. Miguel Duhamel, Honda CBR1000RR
  3. Ben Bostrom, Honda CBR1000RR
  4. Jake Zemke, Honda CBR1000RR
  5. Josh Hayes, Kawasaki ZX-10R
  6. Aaron Yates, Suzuki GSX-R1000
  7. Eric Bostrom, Ducati 999F04
  8. Geoff May, Suzuki GSX-R1000
  9. Larry Pegram, Yamaha YZF-R1
  10. John Haner, Suzuki GSX-R1000

PRE RACE: QUOTES

• MLADIN (SUZUKI) championship leader: "... The Road Atlanta test went even better than we expected .... Suzuki have made some improvements with the bike since the Atlanta test, plus the team has also been busy working on some improvements, so overall I think we have the best package that we have had all year. It’s great that we have made these improvements at this point of the year ... We’re in a position where we can’t relax. We have to get out there and get it done in Atlanta and hopefully if we do a good job it will allow us to enjoy the final round at Virginia ... As far as the championship and everything else is concerned, this is by far the most important weekend of the year. We can really do a lot to put the championship away this weekend. We’ve had a good build up with the tests and have made further improvements with the bike, so it’s up to us now.”