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I was pretty much stuck where I was at,'' Not a bad result considering he'd missed on his seop and had reiniured his shoulder in a Saturday Superctock-practice cl-ash. Bostrom moved into second right from the start and held offYates until find- ing a false neutral in turn four "Then I ran ofl the track and was just able to keep it from the dirt." But thar wasn't his biggest problem. "The long and shon of it is I know we chose the wronS tire," Bostrom said. "The compound that we chose it was softer, but it iust didn't have any grip ever. Didn't like the conditions lguess." Bostrom initially said he was upset that the race wasn't restaned. Fitting the right compound tire might have allowed him to close the gap on Hacking. "l can't really judge the call," he said. ''Obviously l'd like to restart, but, that being said, Jamie [Hacking] delinitely deserved to win the race. lf the race would have kept going, he would have won regardless. I think the winner won the race, and it was the right callforthe weather conditions and everything. lt was meant to be that way, and that's the way it should be." Hacking came into the race tied with teammate.lason DiSalvo for rhe champi- onship lead but left with 12 points on Yates, I 38- 126. DiSalvo tucked the front end in turn ll on the seventh lap, but remounted to finish l9th. He sits third with I 14 porn$ afrer four of I I rounds. Team l'44 EMGO Suzuki's Geoff May inherited fourth place when DiSalvo fell. / , "My fastest lap, I ta{ think. was the last one right before the red,'' May said. ''l think I could've Sone faster. We defi- nitely made all the right choices in this one. We iust got hurt by the red fla8 a lit- tle bit - and my bad start," lvlay is fourth in the championship, only Iive points shy of DiSalvo. The next two riders had their best fin- ishes of the season. Jordan Suzuki's Jacob Holden came fifth, three seconds ahead of HotBodies RacirE/Mat Mladin Motorsports' Marty Craggill. The three-way battle for seventh went to Jordan Suzuki's Steve Rapp by tenths over the Erion Honda ofJosh Hayes, and half a second on Millennium Technologies/ l(WS l.4otorsports' Matt Lynn. Lynn passed Erion Honda's Aaron Gobert two laps from the end, Goben finished loth. Cil lNflNroN RacrwAY soNo a. CartFoRNra Rrsurrs3 ,vlaY 20,2@6 SUPEASTOCX FINAL: l.lamie Hackins (Yd): 2. Aarcn Yate (Suz)r l. Eric BGtrom (Yam)r 4. G6ff Hay (suz)i s. jacob Hold€n (suz)i 6. Ma.tin cra88ill (su4: 7. stere Rapp 6uz)i I lo,hua Ha),er (l-lon)i 9. l'lan LFn (suzli 10. Aa.on Goben (Ho6)r ll.J6on Pridmore (sE); 12. Oavid Sta.bn (Suu)i 13. Damon Euckmdtd (Kaw): 14. ChrG Ulrich (Soz)r lS. Cory wesr (Sur)r 16. 8€n An d (Kaw)i 17 Rob€no Pierri (suz): 18. AkiE Tahirsji (suz)i le. Jaon oisalvo (lam)r 20. 8en Thomp6on (suz); 21. l.lanin stua( (Suz)i 22. Eli Edwards (suz); 21. L6n,.do S.8nit (Yam)r 24 Core/ Earn (Suz): 25. La.E w iamr (suz): 26 Premek Glinz (sor)r 27. cR GitGre (suz): 28. HarkSimon (S!z)i29. And/ Clma (suz);30. chns weiss (Soz);31. Marco l'lanine (S@):32. Enc PinEn (K:wJ:13. Srad PueE (Sur)r 14. Fsando Am tni(Kaw)i 15. Reno &rimian (suz)j 16. Sahar Zvik (SE)i 17. corey S ros (Su)i 38. B6d Hendr/ (suz). Tih.: l2 min..57.4?l sec (due to red n.e). Obtaeq 8 lapt. 17.76 miles (duE to red f,as). AveraF rpe.d: 82.24 I mph- r4aryin of vi.tory: l.ll7 sE. AI.IA SUPERSTOCK CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS STANDINGS (Aft.r 4 of I I drd.): l. lamie HackhS ( I l8l2 wint): 2. A.ron Ya.B ( I 2t I win)j I laon Oisalvo (ll4/l win);4. Geof Hay (109):5.losh Hayes (98):6.lake Hoid€n (t I ); /. len Prjdnore (84: 8. A,ron Gober (86) i 9. Eric 8o'trom (80J: 10. srde R pp Pl)i I I Chns UhLch {73); 12. Man Ly.n (69): Ir. Ben ArErd (68): rl M.ny CEBs,ll (64)i I 5. Robertno Pier.i (64). al UPCOMING ROUNDS Round 5'Elkhol Loke, Wisconsin, June 3 Round 6 , Solt Loke Ciry Utoh, June 17 th The rqre ended up being cut short due to o crosh ond impending bod weolher ond Hqcking wqs out fiant when they rolled it o rore. a Mv Owru FLnce 99 Geoff uay It was almost halfiMay into rhe race before Te-am l*'14 EMGO Suzuki's Geoff Hay 8ot going and not long after the race was over. "l'm a little dirappointed because I realb/ figured the $in8 out about hal6.ray into the race," he said, "Bike really came to me, lap times staned really dropping. Feh Iike I was reall/ catching Eric lBonrom] ard even [Aaron] Yates maybe, if it would have run the whole way. gut that's racing, things h+pen." Hay said resrarting would- n't have improved his tire choke. "We realt don t have that many: I only have 4th Place about two different tircs I go with - I have a long-run tire and a shon run. Th€ tire that I had in the race is \ ery coosistent. And once I kind of figured out how to kind of change my body position a little bit to the way rhe suspension and tires were working. it really came to me." 4O ;ason Disalvo lgth Place It was clear Graves Motorcpons Yama- ha's Jason DiSalvo was struSgling. His Yamaha \Z F-R I LE looked loose on acceleration and skittish on the brakes. Disalvo did all he co{ld to control it, bur it finally tot th€ b€st of him when the Iront end tucked in fle first€ear hairpin right-hand tum I I near the ehd of the seventh lap. "We were on the NT tire and it iust wasn't working out for me in the rear; I wasn't Settint th€ drives I wanted," he said. 'And I wasn't getting it done coming out ofthe corners, so I was havint to make allthis ground up on ttle brakes, which is noth- ing new - I spent all last year doing it when \r€ were a linle underpowered on the Suzuki. So it was nothing new for me. But it was just - each time you do that in a couple ofthese corne.s here, because they are kind ofsketch. because there's some bumps going in there - it's kind of like rollinS the dice. Eventually, ir aih't toing to work out." lt +peared that Disalvo lost the rear, but it wasn't so. "The front tucked. lt was so long that by the time I was aduall). down, the rear was stepping out too. But it was initially the front that went." 96 Aaron Gobert l0th Place Erion Honda's Aaron Gobert has struggled Irom the s[art otthe serson. His finishes are in the eighrh, ninth, loth .ange, far less than what he and the team expected. A balky clutch inhibits the early going and makes the race a garne ofcatch-up. And k didn't help that he qualified I lth. Gobert was closing rhe 8ap on Hatt Lynn and losh Hayes when he decided to "iust do one hard lap and see if you can get them- And I'd come around and l'd Lre two-tenths faster. That's all lwas c+able of, We're toing to a test right now. We've got a list of thinSs that even rn l0laps we're think- ing. We're tryin8 to turn thints around and I'm tryint as hard as I can and the team s all put in b I a I l0 percent. lt's haid to go horne with nothing, but time will tell what we come up with." 16 Marty Craggill 6th Place Marty Cragill finished sixth, his best finish ofthe season on the Hotgodies Racing/ I4at l'4ladin Motorsports Suzuki. "Sixlh is not too bad, ' Crattill said. "l got a really tood launch at the start. I got in behind Steve [Rapp] and when he made a mis- rake, ltot past." That came on the third lap. "l really enioyed the race. I'm happy wilh the changes we've made to the bike, and lfeel more comfortable on it. l'm looking forward to rhe next mce at Road America because it s a track where there s E- lots of hard braking and l'm good at that." Wet weather eliminated all Superstock activity on Friday, so CraSgill ured Superbike qualifying on Saturday to tlne-tune his GSX-R1000. The strategy paid off with an eiShth-place starting spot, his best of the year- "Qualifying was good and I did the same time on the race tire as I did on the qualifier," Craggill said. rit' MAY 31,2006 37 I CYCLE NEWS f ,rtl J I ;1; ) r* t I c f' :t

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