VOL. 50 ISSUE 25 JUNE 25, 2013
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Briefly...
admitting that's still an issue, Herrin said he felt some significant
improvement in Sunday's race. "As
you could see I still need to work
on how fast I go when I get in the
lead," Herrin said. "I was trying my
hardest and that's all you can ask
for. The middle of the race is what I
need to work on. I seem to be decent at the beginning then fall off
in the middle and seem to regroup
and do pretty good in the end. I just
need to go home and work on my
fitness a little bit more. I was happy
today [Sunday] that I was able to be
in front without a carrot in front of
me and be able to pull away from
Martin [Cardenas] and Danny [Eslick] behind me. That's something
I've been trying to work on for years
now and that's really the first time
I've been able to do that."
It was an odd circumstance that of
the five riders penalized for jumping the start in Saturday's Superbike final. Josh Hayes, Roger
Hayden, Larry Pegram, Chris Ulrich and Huntley Nash, were all
were assessed a five-second penalty, but only Pegram lost a position
due to the time penalty.
Pegram (72) leads Chris
Fillmore (11) and Geoff
May (99) in Saturday's
race. Fillmore ended up
fifth on the factory KTM.
"I was starting to slide around a
little bit and so was he in a few
spots. Every time I tried to get a
good run on him on the last lap…
you know if I got close enough I
was just going to outbrake him, I
was going to take a shot at least,
but I could never get just that little
more that I needed."
So in spite of having a weekend with some rocky spots
Hayes came through victorious in
the end.
"It was a really hard race,"
Hayes explained. "I was driving it
as hard as I could, trying to push
it until everybody's tires were junk
and hopefully at the end no one's
able to make any moves. I was trying to pick my lines smart where
I didn't make a lot of mistakes. It
got pretty greasy. I had my share
After his pair of Daytona SportBike
wins at Barber Cameron Beaubier now has 11-career DSB wins.
His next victory in the class will tie
him with Danny Eslick for third on
the all-time wins list. Josh Herrin
is second in career DSB wins at
14. It's very likely that Beaubier will
move past him to that spot this season. Martin Cardenas is the all-time
class wins leader with 24.
Joe Roberts' victories in Barber's
Supersport races marked the first
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