VOL. 50 ISSUE 39 OCTOBER 1, 2013
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Briefly...
was on. As far as I can tell I did the
same thing on Sunday and I probably should have gotten a jump-start
penalty on Sunday and I probably
shouldn't even be in contention for
the championship. That would have
been consistent with the rule… so
my question was if Saturday's call
was a bad call and Sunday's call is
the right call, then I should have my
win and my points from Saturday and
if Saturday's call was the right call,
then I should be docked and finish
fourth on Sunday. It's just a bad situation. Not just for me but for everybody and hopefully AMA Pro Racing
can get their sh*& together and we
won't have issues like this next year."
sideways into six and lost him a
little bit. I tried to square him up
in the last corner and something
happened to his bike and I almost
hit him."
Fourth place was thus gifted to
Cory West – by far his best outing of the season on the Motorsport.com EBR 1190RS. Team
Amsoil EBR's Aaron Yates ended
his comeback season with a fifth
place – the Georgian veteran's
best result of the year. He was
some three seconds ahead of
sixth-placed KTM's Taylor Knapp
– the final rider to pass his pushing teammate Fillmore up the
front straight.
Australian David Anthony was
also in the battle with West, Yates
and Co. early on, but he faded to
finish eighth. Trent Gibson, who
was lapped by Hayes, ended up
ninth with Kevin Pinkstaff rounding out the top 10. Pinkstaff was
ahead of Gibson on the track, but
was docked a position for passing under a "blue-flag situation."
Only 16 riders qualified for the
race and one of them – Team
Hero EBR's Geoff May – didn't
make the start after suffering a
mechanical failure before it even
got rolling.
Yoshimura Suzuki's Chris
Clark was also part of the
fifth-place tussle early, but he
crashed out of the race in Rainey
Curve on the ninth lap after getting his front end pinched off on
corner entry. He was forced to
pick up the GSX-R and take a
high speed run through the gravel before laying it down before
hitting the tire wall.
Only 12 riders finished the
race.
CN
Superbike Final
1. Josh Hayes (Yamaha)
2. Josh Herrin (Yamaha)
3. Larry Pegram (Yamaha)
With his jump-start penalties this
year, Josh Hayes knows he has to
work on figuring out how to keep a
wound-up Yamaha R1 behind the line
before the lights turn green. "It's funny I can win Superbike Championships, I can win Superbike races, but
I can't start with my foot on the rear
brake. I can't get the timing right, I
can't get the clutch right. I just did
three starts in a qualifying session
so I can practice and try to figure
out how to do this so this is not an
issue for us anytime in the future. I'm
trying to eliminate the problem and I
will keep working at it the best that
I can."
4. Cory West (EBR)
5. Aaron Yates (EBR)
6. Taylor Knapp (KTM)
7. Chris Fillmore (KTM)
8. David Anthony (Suzuki)
9. Trent Gibson (Suzuki)
10. Kevin Pinkstaff (Kawasaki)
