ROUNDS 7-8/JULY 13-14, 2013
MID-OHIO SPORTS CAR COURSE/LEXINGTON, OHIO
AMA SUPERBIKES
P84
AMA NATIONAL GUARD SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP
Sunday and things went from
bad to worse. He crashed on the
warm-up lap on oil dry left from a
fan-lap crash.
"The track wasn't ready to race
on," Pegram said. "I threw it down
because they had oil dry all over
the track and didn't clean it up
there at the double right [turns
10-11]. If I'd known it was there I
would have avoided it, but they
didn't tell us, so it shouldn't have
been out there. They got the bike
fixed and I took off and something
happened to the thing. We had a
failure. That's why I ran off the end
of the back straightaway cause
the thing was trying to tie up and I
had some failure on the bike."
Hayes goes to Laguna Seca
this week with a four-point lead,
191-187, over Herrin, who moved
past Cardenas in the standings
by one point with his win on SunCN
day.
Race One
1. Josh Hayes (Yamaha)
2. Josh Herrin (Yamaha)
3. Martin Cardenas (Suzuki)
4. Danny Eslick (Suzuki)
5. Geoff May (EBR)
6. Aaron Yates (EBR)
7. Chris Fillmore (KTM)
8. Roger Hayden (Suzuki)
9. Larry Pegram (Yamaha)
10. Cory West (EBR)
Race Two
1. Josh Herrin (Yamaha)
2. Josh Hayes (Yamaha)
3. Martin Cardenas (Suzuki)
4. Danny Eslick (Suzuki)
5. Geoff May (EBR)
6. Aaron Yates (EBR)
7. Chris Fillmore (KTM)
8. Roger Hayden (Suzuki)
9. David Anthony (Suzuki)
10. Taylor Knapp (KTM)
BEATING
THE CLOCK
Defending AMA Superbike
Champion and new series
points leader Josh Hayes
started Sunday's Superbike
race at Mid-Ohio with a fivesecond disadvantage after
AMA officials determined that
Hayes had jumped the start. It
took them nine laps to confirm
it with his team and Hayes,
who was leading the race, was
given a pit board that read P2,
-5. Hayes knew he'd been penalized. The race against the clock was
on.
Hayes had to try to get over five
seconds ahead of teammate Josh
Even though he didn't come
out on top on Sunday, Hayes
takes over at the top of the AMA
Superbike Championship after
eight races.
These three were locked
together all weekend:
Geoff May (99), Chris
Fillmore (11) and Aaron
Yates (20).
Herrin to win the race. He
said he gave it all he had, but
in the end he came up a mere
.122 of a second short.
"I'm proud of the way I
rode and feel good about my
race," Hayes said. "The result
is the result. That's what goes
in the books, but at the end
of the day I'm pretty happy
with the way I rode. I thought
I had stopped my momentum
[on the startline], similar to
what had happened to Martin
[Cardenas] at Barber. I was a little
surprised that late in the race to get
the signal that I'd gotten the infraction, but at that point what are you
going to do? It doesn't matter. At
least I know what my station in life
