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AMA SUPERBIKC
Rounds A/9
June 3-4.
2006
AMA Superbike
Championshlp
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Miguel Duhomel
(t 7)
gor
the
iump
on the field in
the first of
two AMA Superbike
roces
ql
Rood Ameri.q. Jok.
Zemkg
(!8).
Ben
Spies
(l
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Tomiriy
Hoyden
(22)
ond the rest oI the
field
give
chore.
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WHilr:
his
young
teammate
Ben Spies
sum-
rmrily dismiss
l4ladin and the
rest in
the
previous
three
AHA Superbike
doubleheaders.
ln the
second
race at lnfineon
Raceway,
the last of his three double-
'{"
header sweeps, Spies
said
he was ridinE at
85
percent. All the while l'4ladin smiled,
said
he was
Setting
beaten. said
he had to
work harder. said the team
had to work
harder
So they
did-
The results aame in
glorious throwback
on one of the
fastest racetrack
in
Road America. On
a weekend
average
spe€d of the Superbike
raco exceeded that of the lYotoGP round in
Mlrgello, the Yoshimura Suzuki
rrder
put his
\^rork ethic on
display.
He won Saturday's
race
going
away, end-
winning
streak at six, and denying
the
outriSht record
(he now shares
it
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with Miguel Duhamel).
And on Saturday
he
needed a
little bh of luck to seal
the double,
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