ROUNDS 3/4/JUNE 1-2, 2013/ROAD AMERICA
ELKHART LAKE, WISCONSIN
AMA SUPERSPORT
P54
AMA MOTOCYCLE-SUPERSTORE.COM SUPERSPORT SER
Alexander Does the Double
A FIVE-WAY BATTLE TO THE FLAG ON SUNDAY
BY LARRY LAWRENCE
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN J. NELSON
C
orey Alexander ran the
gauntlet at Road America.
On Saturday he battled
early, survived a last-lap banzaipass attempt by Stefano Mesa,
and then pulled a gap to win.
In Sunday's race he avoided a
massive pileup at the start that
pushed the race to the end of the
day and then emerged victorious
again, this time in a photo finish
with the top four covered by less
than .015 of a second in the hardest fought race of the weekend.
Doing the double moved Alexander all the way up to second in
the SuperSport East point standings. The lanky National Guard/
Celtic Racing Suzuki rider, who
returned from bad injuries last
season, now sits just six points
behind Mesa. Road America was
another combined East/West
race and Tomas Puerta, who won
one of the races at Daytona and
finished 4-3 at Road America, is
in firm control in the West standings - 32 points ahead of David
Sadowski Jr.
Saturday's race developed
into a three-way battle between
Alexander, Mesa and Jeffrey Tigert. On the final lap, Mesa tried
a pass into the downhill turn five
and ran in too hot and wasn't
Corey Alexander (5) leads Tomas
Puerta (12), Stefano Mesa (37)and
Travis Wyman (24) en route to one of
his two wins over the course of the
weekend at Road America.
able to make the pass stick. Instead he ran wide and that was
the race, even though Alexander
was not sure he had it won until
he crossed the line.
"Going on to the last straightaway I could usually hear him
halfway up the hill if he was going
to draft by me," Alexander said of
Mesa. "I didn't hear him so at that
point I kind of figured he wasn't
close enough to draft back by
me, but I didn't want to look behind me."
