The weather could have not been worse at Barber, in Birmingham, Al, this Sunday. numerous tornado alerts along with heavy downpours disturbed the racing program. The day's three races were delayed by two hours and each race was shortened five laps from its scheduled distance as a band of severe thunderstorms passed through the area bringing tornado warnings in the early afternoon.Seventh win in a row for Mladin in the AMA Pro American Superbike race where AGV Dainese riders had up and downs.
Unfortunately Blake Young, who was very fast in the morning warm-up, tangled with Yamaha's Josh Hayes and crashed, resulting in a left-hand fingers injury that needed a quick surgery (wishing Blake a prompt recovery). After the full-course caution and subsequent restart Jordan Suzuki's Aaron Yates took his #23 GSXR-1000 and Dainese leathers to a very well deserved 2nd place finish, 2.741 seconds behind Mat Mladin.
Aaron Yates said “It’s great to be on the podium again, it’s been a while. This weekend has been up and down for us. We only got the 2009 Jordan Suzuki GSX-R1000 a few weeks ago and we’re still getting it sorted out. But I’m feeling pretty good about the bike, and it’s running pretty good. It just feels great to get back up on the podium and show how hard the Jordan Suzuki guys are working.”On a mostly dry track, National Guard Jordan Suzuki's Geoff May scored another very good Top 5 finish reinforcing his 3rd overall in the point standings.
AMA Pro National Guard American Superbike Presented by Parts Unlimited - May 3rd, 2009
2nd. Aaron Yates (Suz GSX-R1000K9)
5th. Geoff May (Suz GSX-R1000K9)
11th. Chris Ulrich (Suz GSX-R1000K9)
20th. Barrett Long (Duc 1098R), -81.179
21st. Shane Narbonne (Suz GSX-R1000K8)
Championship Point Standings (after 7 of 21 races):
3rd. May, 122 points
4th. Young, 114
7th. Yates, 98
13th. Ulrich, 53
16th. Neil Hodgson, 25
17th. Long, 23
AMA Pro Daytona SportBike Championship Presented by AMSOIL - May 3rd, 2009
9th. Russ Wikle (Suz GSX-R600)
14th. Steve Rapp (Yam YZF-R6)
33rd. Santiago Villa (Suz GSX-R600)
36th. Barrett Long (Yam YZF-R6)
Championship Point Standings (after 7 of 20 races):
8th. Rapp, 67 points
14th. Long, 40
Another great podium finish for Roadracingworld.com's Russ Wikle who's sitting 3rd overall, 1 points behind Leandro Mercado.
AMA Pro SuperSport Championship Presented by Shoei - May 3rd, 2009
2nd. Russ Wikle (Suz GSX-R600)
Championship Point Standings (after 3 of 9 races):
3rd. Russ Wikle, 48 points
14th. Long, 40
