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workin8
good
all
week. I keep crashing
my Superbike, so I
guess I'm making up
for
it a liftle bit in Supersport.
I'm
iust
happy that
l'm being consistent and l'm up
here on the box.
lt was another fun race
with
Jamie.
He
gave
it to
me a lirde bit in
[turn]
five, but it was still
good
to
get
the
Hayden
won the race in a record time
of 25 minutes,
10.720 seconds, eclipsing
his own mark
from last
year
by 14 sec-
onds. His average speed
was 93.174 mph.
Hayden's championship
lead over
HackinS is eight
points, 74-55, after two
of I I races-
May sits third with 53
points.
"lt
didnt
go
as I
planned.''
Hacking
said.
"l planned
on turning around
that
second
pla.e
I had on the Superstock and
pulling
a win ofl I felt
really confident
going
into the race."
Hacking took the lead from
Hayden on
the
fifth lap and held
it until nearly the
end.
"l
was
iust
waiting for the
race
to
8et
into
the lappers, and lgot into the lap-
pers,
and obviouslT
you
know, they
iust
didn't
play
to
my way," he said.
"l
iust
got
screwed with them."
Hacking said he thouSht
he'd
protect-
ed
his line from a Hayden attack,
"But
obviously
not ti8ht enough,"
he
pointed
out.
"He
got
in there and
he
got
a little wide. and
I followed him a.ound
over
here, and he
got
into the turn-flve
area
pretq/
wide, and
I
got
underneath
him and he squared
it off real well. I
mean, that bike turns
really, really well.
.lust
barely
touched
there a liftle bit. lt was
pretty
close. From there on, I
iust
tried
to
stick on his
rear wheel. I thought
I had a
pretty good
shot at
getting
him back on
the last lap. Going
into turn two over
here, he squeezed
in between a lapper,
and the lapper came
right
back
down on
top
of me. At that
point,
I had to kind of
turn in a little sharper than
l'd
been
turn-
ing in there. And
I had to let
go
of the
brakes.
lhad to let it run wide.
Then lget
out there
in the water-
lt was a whole
m€ss
from there on. He
got
a big
gap
on
me, and
it wils over.''
May took
advantage of the misfortune
of Yoshimura Suzuki's
Ben Spies to take
third. Spies
was running in third on the
loth lap when
he went out with an elec-
trical issue on
his Suzuki GSX-R600.
"l
feel like I
Eot
lucky today, for sure,"
May said-
May said
an unwise
gearing
chan8e
put
him off the
pace
for the race.
"Roger
and
Jamie,
Ben Spies
-
they
were
8one,"
May said.
May was
a comfortable third
until the
end
of the race, when Attack Kawasaki's
Ben Attard
anacked. The
gap
closed to
t:nder a second on the l3th lap and con-
tinued to shrink
ro the checkered
flag.
"Ben
was coming on me real
quick,"
May said,
"l
was
watching the splits.
lt
showed me he was
picking
offabout two-
tenths a lap on me, Once
we
got
near the
end,
the bike started workinS
a liftle bet-
ter where I could
ride lt more comtort-
ably out of control, I
guess you
would say.
So
ljust
put
my head down
and said,
'There
ain't no way he's
Soing
to
pass
me.
l'm not
going
to let him
get
by me today.'
liust
pretty
much held a defensive
line,
and
the Pirelli tires were
great
and
brought it home third."
"[His
first Supersport
podium
was]
definitely a
milestone for me," May said.
"Getting
on the box in Supersport is an
accomplishment, for sure.
I wanted to
get
it straight up. I wanted to
beat Ben out-
right today. We were
pretty
much right
there
with him all weekend,
and then we
worked backwards. But we'll take
it.
That's racing."
Attard was only .216 of a second back
in fourth.
Teammate Damon
Buckmaster was
next, 13 seconds later, with Matsushima
Perfqrmance's
Danny Eslick
nearly in his
shadow.
Soon after
came Team l'44 EMGO
Suzuki's Michael
Barnes, nearly
healed
from the right-knee injuries he suffered in
Daytona.
Cl{
BatBER r{ororsPorrs PaRx
Brnr NGHArtr, AraBAr,ra
SUPERSPoRTT l. Rose. Le Hayden
(Kaw):
2.
Jmie
Hekins
fld)j
3. Geff Hay
(Su:):
a.
B.i
An rd
(.w);
s.
Damoo
Bu(knustsr
(Kaw)i
6. Deny Eslick
(suz):
7.
l'li.hael BarnB
{Suz)r
L RFn ElleL,
(Hd):
9. Biake Youne
(Suzl:
I0.
NicLa M@re
(Yaml;
IL Chris Caylor
{S!z);
I2.
raichael BEck
C(m);
13- Tony tleiring
(suz):
14.
lGltn
Leombe
(Yam);
lS. l'la$hs
Funet (Sur)i 16. Alastair
Seley
(Yam)i
17. Garett C.ner
frm)i
18.
Giotrn'
Roj-
(Suz)i
19.
Tyler fl.DoEld
(Ym):
20. Keith l'la6hall
(Soz):
21. Chrn SiSlin
(S@)i
22. Daiel
Palkelsoi
(Suz)i
23.
Banett Lon8
(Ym)r
24. Shane
Kuehle. (Yam): 2s. skip
Salenius
(Kaw)r
26. Chri.topher tu