SUPERBIKE
AMA SUPERBIKE SERIES
ROUNDS 1-2/MARCH 14-15, 2014
DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY/DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA
P46
Two second-place finishes
didn't give him the points lead,
but Hayden was thinking big pic-
ture. "It just matters that I have a
nice gap on Cardenas and a nice
gap on Hayes," Hayden said.
As for the Beaubier challenge,
Hayden was expecting it. But, as
he says, Daytona is Daytona.
"It's going to be harder for
him when we get to these tighter
tracks," Hayden said of his new
rival. "He's still going to be very,
very competitive, but here if you
make a mistake it's easier… es-
pecially if you have the fastest
bike to recover. A lot of these
other places it won't be quite that
easy."
Third place in the title chase?
Bet you didn't guess Yoshimura
Suzuki's Chris Clark.
By virtue of his two fourth-
place finishes, Clark is indeed
third with 36 points – four more
than the man he battled with both
times out at Daytona, David An-
thony. Then comes a three-way
tie for fifth with Hayes, Cardenas
and Chris Fillmore. That means
Hayes is 21 points be-
hind his teammate –
or 27 points better off
than when he left here
last year.
"It's not something
I'm unfamiliar with,"
Hayes said on being
down in the points
chase after Daytona.
"Hey, I came out of
here with something –
I got a race win. We'll
see how it goes. Take
it one day at a time.
It's not like everything
you do is wrapped
around this championship. It's all
these individual battles along the
way. I will take each one of them
as they come." CN
Race One
1. Josh Hayes (Yamaha)
2. Roger Lee Hayden (Suzuki)
3. Cameron Beaubier (Yamaha)
4. Chris Clark (Suzuki)
5. David Anthony (Suzuki)
6. Chris Fillmore (KTM)
7. Diego Pierluigi (Suzuki)
8. Taylor Knapp (Suzuki)
9. Cory West (EBR)
10. Stefano Mesa (Kawasaki)
Race Two
1. Cameron Beaubier (Yamaha)
2. Roger Lee Hayden (Suzuki)
3. Martin Cardenas (Suzuki)
4. Chris Clark (Suzuki)
5. David Anthony (Suzuki)
6. Chris Fillmore (KTM)
7. Diego Pierluigi (Suzuki)
8. Taylor Knapp (Suzuki)
9. Cory West (EBR)
10. Chris Ulrich (Honda)
Taylor Knapp (44) and Cory West (13) fought it out both
days with Argentinian Diego Pierluigi (80) for seventh
place and Pierluigi got the nod both times out.
First timer: Cameron Beaubier won
his first career AMA Superbike
race at Daytona. You can bet it
won't be his last.
