INTERVIEW
JOSH HAYES
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the hands of Beaubier and cur-
rent championship runner-up
Hayden. SportBike king Beau-
bier is learning the ropes on a
Superbike while Hayden is still
coming to grips with his works
Yoshimura Suzuki bike and crew
after spending the previous three
seasons on the Jordan machine.
But both riders have the potential
to push Hayes on a regular basis
once they are fully up to speed.
And now they essentially have
three 'free' rounds to work up to
midseason form before AMA Pro
next pays points for race results.
"Yeah, for sure, that will defi-
nitely help those guys," Hayes
said. "But, I think it's going to be
good for me, too. Typically I've
gotten rolling better as the sea-
son has gone on and getting to
ride these rounds is going to help
me as well. It just gets you back
into the swing of being a motor-
cycle racer.
"It's hard to feel like a profes-
sional racer when you never get
to ride motorcycles. I'm watch-
ing people all over the world who
are getting paid (or even paying)
to race motorcycles at the world
level and they're riding 18- and
19-round series. They're doing
tons of testing. There's all sorts
of things that those guys have go-
ing on.
"And here in the States, we're
looking at a five or six-round se-
