lnfineon Rocewoy
take a
flyer and
win from the
front-
Make
Mladin
come at him.
Mladin
couldn't,
not consistently,
and
Spies
left
lnfineon Raceway
with
his third
double win
in a row
and a six_race
win-
ning streak.
The streak ties a
similar
run
made by
Miguel Duhamel
back
in 1995,
and few
would bet
a8ainst SPies breaking
the
mark at
Road America
in two
week.
"lf
there is any
pressure, it's,ust
for
Mat
U'lladinl
to stop
it now" SPies
said.
"He's
the
six-time champ.
He's
got
to
stop
it. I dont
have
to keeP
wrnning
another six
in a
row- I'm
just
doing what
I
can
do.
And if anybody
can
do it, Mat's
one
of the
most talented
riders
in the
world,
and I have
more
respect for him
than anybody
in the
pits.
lf anybody
can
do
it, it can
be him."
Leading from
the
front was difflcult,
Spies admitted
on Saturday,
'Anytime
he tried
to come back
at me,
I
lust
tried
to answer
back with some
laP
times.
He would
push for a couple
of laps,
and I would
push,
and
I would even
get a
little further
away-
So he knew
I could do
it. and
he knew I could
do
it whenever I
wanted to.
"l
just
tried
to keep looking
at my
lap
timer,
and nail the same
lap
every time and
ride it about
85
percent,
and
iust
not make
any
mistakes,
and make
it easi€r
on myself
than
pushing hard, running
wide
-
doing
stuff
like that,"
Spies said about
Sunday-
''The
last few laps I
put
my head
down and
to
go," he said.
"We've
got a
couPle of
know
the championship
will
probably
be
ura Suzuki's
Ben
SPies
28 MAY 3r,
2006
.
cYcLE
NEws
found
a new
way to win.
lnstead
of battling
team-
mate l'lat
l'4ladin,
the 2l-
year-old Texan
decided
to
started
going
aSain
and it was
8ood.
The
bike
was
good.
I was
really comforable."
'A
slight concern
there,
but there's still
a long
way to
go,"
Mladin said,
from
the
vantaSe
point
of
six
SuPerbike
Championships.
He
made the
Point
with
the
numbers.
as there
have been
seven
races and 12 to
go,
with
Spies holding a
30-point
lead, 257-227, over
Mladin.
"Thirty
points in the championshiP,
30
points is not a
lot when there's
12 races
race meetings cominS
up
here in the next
month
and
we've
gor
a
good
break.
You
won in the last
eight or
nine races
-
races
when
it heats up, and we
get
over
to the East Coast.
Whether
30 or 40
points
behind,
it really
matter at
that
Point.
we need to
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