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it actually bent the rest of the
pedal that was left on top of my
footpeg, so I couldn't even have
my foot hardly on the peg and it
cost me a lot of time."
On Sunday, Kailub was all
business again and won the
opening test by nearly eight
seconds over Ricky Russell. Tely
Energy Racing's Liam Draper,
who was last year's Pro2 Cham-
pion, turned in one of his best
performances of the weekend
for third.
Russell, Michael and Strang
battled all day for second behind
Kailub, with Michael getting
the best of Ricky by over four
seconds to take the runner-up
slot, thanks in part to another
around his footpeg, which cost
him considerable time.
"Saturday was going pretty
good," said Michael. "I stayed
pretty mistake-free all day, just
kind of started off slow. I was
picking up speed as the day
went and I felt really good and
then in the last test I didn't know
what happened. I just kind of
went against the bank and then I
was on the ground. I was pretty
confused because I didn't feel
like I did anything wrong, but
after looking at the track I saw
there was just a little hidden
stump kind of in the track, or
where we banked off, and it just
happened to grab my footpeg
and broke the brake tip off. Then
Just trying to figure out which di-
rection to go when the track gets
a certain kind of condition. We
went back and forth and made
a bunch of changes and every-
thing seemed to work pretty well
all around for the most part. It
was a really solid weekend of
tuning and testing and having
good results, too."
On Saturday, Kailub put ev-
eryone on notice by winning the
opening test (a Cross test) by
more than 10 seconds ahead of
Coastal Racing's Craig Delong.
Things began to look bad for
the competition as Kailub ex-
tended his lead with every test,
with the exception of the third
test when he dropped his front
wheel in a hole and went down.
Am Pro Yamaha's Layne
Michael took advantage of the
situation and won the test.
Meanwhile, Ricky Russell was
slowly gaining his sprint legs and
began battling Team Babbitt's
Online/Monster Energy/Kawa-
saki Team Green's Josh Strang
and Michael for third.
In the end, Kailub won Satur-
day's event by almost a minute,
with Ricky in second and Strang
in third.
Michael was fourth but might
have had a shot at second had
he not wrapped his brake pedal
(Left) Layne Michael came out
swinging and pulled off a test win
and finished out the weekend third
overall. (Right) Australian Lyndon
Snodgrass was fourth overall; good
enough for the Pro2-class win.
