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2005 AMA SUPERBIKES

2005 AMA SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP

• DOUBLE HEADER
• April 29-May 1, 2005, California Speedway Fontana
• California Speedway
• 28 lap Superbike race
  2.3 mile circuit (3.7 km)
  lap record: 1m 25.25 sec
• PREVIOUS WINNERS:
  2004: Race 1 & 2: Mladin, Suzuki
  2003: Race 1 & 2: Mladin, Suzuki
  2002: Race 1, A Gobert, Yamaha ; Race 2, N Hayden, Honda

RACE 2 RESULT, AMA SUPERBIKES

• 1 Mat Mladin, Suzuki GSX-R1000
  “Winning today was very important. We’re five races into it and we’re all squared up again unfortunately for the points tally. But the race today was really good. When you’re at the front, you have to set the pace and I tried to run consistently and stretch out the lead so that we’d be comfortable for the last five laps.”
• 2 Ben Spies, Suzuki GSX-R1000
• 3 Aaron Yates, Suzuki GSX-R1000
• 4 Eric Bostrom (Ducati)
• 5 Neil Hodgson (Ducati)
• 6 Jake Zemke (Honda)
• 7 Rapp
• 8 Craggill
• 9 McBain
• 10 Pegram

RACE 1 RESULT, AMA SUPERBIKES

• 1. Ben Spies, Suzuki GSX-R1000 *first ever SBK win for Spies*
  "About lap 7 into it, the fuel pump started going out and wouldn’t run in second and fourth gear. I was having to go first to third to fifth. I let Aaron and Neil by because I didn’t want them to be behind me on the straightaway and hit me. I just tried to stay on with them, and then I saw Mat was having some problems. I wanted the win really bad even though the bike was making it really hectic. With Neil running off the track, that helped me out. Considering the problem that we had, we came out with the win so that was good. I’m really happy about that.”
• 2. Aaron Yates, Suzuki GSX-R1000
  “We were pushing hard and we had a good race going ; I’m sure everybody enjoyed it. I know Ben had some troubles about midway, and I was hoping they were a little more major than they were. I didn’t know he was there coming back. When Mat went out I was just kind of hounding Neil, trying to figure out where I could make a move on him. And then here comes Ben and we had a race on. The lappers kind of helped sometimes and they hurt sometimes; they brought us back and forth from each other. We were just pushing hard ; there wasn’t much for grip out there. But you know, it’s great for Suzuki to be 1-2.”
• 3. Neil Hodgson (Ducati)
  “To be totally honest, I made a mistake going into the chicane and I went through a gear too high. It just catapulted me into the second turn a little bit too fast. I sort of braked where I had been braking every lap ; but probably five mph faster. I just couldn’t get the thing stopped and the tires were gone at that stage. There’s not a lot of side-grip so you just sort of drift into the corner; you’re pretty much a passenger on the bike. That’s exactly what happened ; I was just a passenger sliding into the corner. And that was it ; race over, simple as that. At that point you can’t believe what’s happened. I was totally devastated. But that’s racing ; I’ve done it before and I’ll probably do it again. We all push hard and it’s not easy.”
• 4 Miguel Duhamel (Honda)
• 5 Eric Bostrom (Ducati)
• 6 Jake Zemke (Honda)
• 7 Hayes 8 Rapp 9 Craggill 10 Haskovec
• DNF: Mladin: “I’m not too sure what happened yet ... They’re going to pull it apart. I just lost all drive. I realized straight away after the restart I had a problem. I was just trying to adjust and adjust and adjust, and I finally ran out of adjustments. Then, I guess it was about eight to go, I came to a halt. That’s why you try to win races -- so you can build a points lead. We’re only six or seven out of it now. That’s racing.”

SUPERSPORT RACE

• 1 Hacking
• 2 T Hayden
• 3 R Hayden
• 4 Disalvo
• 5 Aaron Gobert
• 6 Spies

SUPERSTOCK (1000cc) RACE

• 1 Disalvo
• 2 Hacking
• 3 Rapp
• 4 T Hayden
• 5 Haskovec
• 6 Aaron Gobert

FX (600cc) RACE

• 1 Zemke
• 2 Duhamel
• 3 Haskovec
• 4 Eslick
• 5 Moore
• 6 Caylor

GRID, AMA SUPERBIKES

• 1 Mat Mladin, Suzuki GSX-R1000 1m 23.6
• 2 Aaron Yates (Suzuki)
• 3 Ben Spies (Suzuki)
• 4 Neil Hodgson (Ducati)
• 5 Eric Bostrom (Ducati)
• 6 Miguel Duhamel (Honda)
• 7 Jake Zemke (Honda)
• 8 Haskovec
• 9 Craggill
• 10 Haner

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