Articles for AMA Superbike 2006 News
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Graves Yamaha's Jamie Hacking continued his remarkable assault on the AMA Pro Racing record books this weekend at Road Atlanta by wrapping up his second championship of 2006 and winning both the Superstock and Supersport finales in the process.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
It was an all-Yoshimura Superbike Saturday at Road Atlanta, as the Suzuki trio made a clean sweep of the podium with a Mladin-Spies-Yates finish.
Sunday, August 20, 2006
The expectation of rain got the AMA racing action at VIR underway a little ahead of schedule and at high noon Mat Mladin got to business, snatching the victory away from the championship front-running Spies, who went on to finish fourth.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Ben Spies didn't need to make the final rounds of the AMA Superbike championship any more dramatic, as the Yoshimura ace's 10-wins and mastery of his rival Mat Mladin has provided plenty of excitement, but he did it anyway when he highsided during Friday qualifying at VIR.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Ben Spies has developed a pretty successful strategy this year in Superbike: Start up front with the pole position, jump out to an early lead, and then don't look back until you see them waiving the checkered flag.
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Not even a red flag could stop Ben Spies from edging a little bit closer to locking up the 2006 Superbike title with a convincing victory in Saturday's race at Mid-Ohio.
Saturday, July 22, 2006
The AMA Superbike race got off to a wild start with Turn 2 taking out a whole group of riders on the first lap.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
It seems like it has been forever and a day since a non-Yoshimura Suzuki graced the top of the AMA Superbike podium, but at long last the streak is ended, as American Honda's Jake Zemke takes the checkers in Sunday's Superbike race at Miller.
Saturday, June 17, 2006
AMA SB put the first-ever Superbike contest in the books at the all-new Miller Motorsports Park, with Ben Spies edging out Mat Mladin during a wild race, which saw the Yoshimura duo fend off a serious challenge.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Ben Spies came into Road America riding a six-race winning streak and looking almost invincible for the title; but the young Texan's streak ended today, as the reigning Superbike champion, Mat Mladin, eeked out a win by a narrow 0.149 margin.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Yoshimura Suzuki's Mat Mladin started a little winning streak of his own in race two on Sunday afternoon when he tracked down, passed and ran away from his teammate Ben Spies on the way to sweeping the Road Atlanta double-header.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
AMA Pro Racing has revised Sunday's race schedule in an attempt to beat the rain forecasted for this afternoon.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
There was one hell of a multi-rider battle at Infineon on Saturday. Unfortunately, it was for third place - but at this point, I'll take it.
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Yoshimura Suzuki's Ben Spies claimed his fourth consecutive win on Sunday by sweeping the double-header at California Speedway in Fontana, Ca.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Ben Spies does it again, taking another victory away from reigning champ Mat Mladin during the first Superbike race at Fontana.
Sunday, April 23, 2006
It was a wild one at Barber, but when the dust settled Ben Spies claimed another Superbike victory.
Friday, April 21, 2006
Headlining the action on Saturday, Ben Spies was able to even up with rival Mat Mladin for the championship when he claimed a victory in the first race of a Superbike weekend doubleheader.
Saturday, March 11, 2006
The early race on Saturday, during a hectic racing schedule at Daytona, was the 15-lap Superbike contest.
