Josh Hayes led the American SuperBike field at Miller Motorsports Park - the Monster Energy Yamaha rider setting the pace in both the Practice and Qualifying 1 sessions.
Josh Hayes continued to lead the American SuperBike field at Miller Motorsports Park. The defending champ piloted his Yamaha R1 to provisional pole, leading both ASB sessions on the day. Hayes far outpaced his rivals in the morning session, but the Yoshimura Suzuki’s closed the gap in the afternoon, with Blake Young and Tommy Hayden placing a respective second and third on the timesheet. Rounding out the provisional front row and trailing his big brother was Jordan Suzuki’s Roger Hayden.
Hayes’ best of 1:50.4 has him lapping faster than some of the backmarkers in SBK, just a tenth behind former two-time champ James Toseland. The AMA’s fastest, however, would be 2.14 behind the SBK lead pace set by Carlos Checa.
Larry Pegram was fifth-fastest aboard the BMW S1000RR, with M4 Suzuki’s Martin Cardenas lapping at an identical pace – the duo a full second behind the leader. JD Beach, running in the Superbike class now aboard the Cycle World Attack Performance Kawasaki, was seventh-fastest.
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AMA Pro Road Racing American SuperBike field will get a final qualifying session on Sunday to sort out the grid for Monday’s 16-lap race.
2011 American Superbike Miller Saturday Qualifying:
1. Josh Hayes (Yamaha) 01:50.4
2. Blake Young (Suzuki) 01:50.6
3. Tommy Hayden (Suzuki) 01:50.7
4. Roger Hayden (Suzuki) 01:51.2
5. Larry Pegram (BMW) 01:51.4
6. Martin Cardenas (Suzuki) 01:51.4
7. JD Beach (Kawasaki) 01:51.7
8. Chris Peris (BMW) 01:51.8
9. Geoff May Buell 1125R 01:52.0
10. David Anthony (Suzuki) 01:52.1
11. Chris Clark (Yamaha) 01:52.2
12. Steve Rapp (BMW) 01:52.3
13. Ben Bostrom (Suzuki) 01:52.6
14. Jeremy Toye (BMW) 01:52.6
15. Chris Trounson (BMW) 01:54.0
Daytona SportBike
Latus Ducati’s Jason DiSalvo continues to reign over the Daytona SportBike class at Miller. The Ducati 848 EVO pilot led the afternoon qualifying session, claiming provisional pole for Sunday’s 16-lap DSB race ahead of Celtic Racing’s PJ Jacobsen. Fastest in the morning practice, Jacobsen outpaced the Yamaha R6 duo of Josh Herrin and Cameron Beaubier. The Yamahas find themselves eight-tenths down on the leaders pace with a brief qualifying session tomorrow morning before the 4 p.m. race time.
2011 Daytona SportBike Miller Saturday Qualifying:
1. Jason DiSalvo (Ducati) 01:55.3
2. PJ Jacobsen (Ducati) 01:55.6
3. Josh Herrin (Yamaha) 01:56.1
4. Cameron Beaubier (Yamaha) 01:56.3
5. Paul Allison (Yamaha) 01:56.6
6. Taylor Knapp (Suzuki) 01:56.6
7. Danny Eslick (Suzuki) 01:56.6
8. Cory West (Suzuki) 01:56.7
9. Jake Holden (Ducati) 01:56.7
10. Tommy Aquino (Yamaha) 01:56.9
11. Dalton Dimick (Yamaha) 01:57.0
12. Dane Westby (Suzuki) 01:57.1
13. Tyler OHara (Yamaha) 01:57.2
14. Tyler Odom (Honda) 01:57.3
15. Santiago Villa (Suzuki) 01:57.9
Motorcycle-Superstore.com SuperSport
Honda rider Benny Solis led both the Practice and Qualifying 1 sessions of Saturday's Motorcycle-Superstore.com Supersport series. Following the CBR pilot on the timesheet was Yamaha's David Gaviria and Suzuki's Corey Alexander. SuperSport contender Tomas Puerta was fourth-fastest, rounding out the provisional front row. Returning from a broken arm injury, Suzuki's Elena Myers was 12th on the day.
The SuperSport class will get a half-hour qualifying session Sunday morning before running its 13-lap main event after the morning SBK qualifying session.
2011 Motorcycle-Superstore.com SuperSport Saturday Qualifying:
1. Benny Solis (Honda) 01:58.4
2. David Gaviria (Yamaha) 01:58.7
3. Corey Alexander (Suzuki) 01:59.0
4. Tomas Puerta (Yamaha) 01:59.4
5. Nadr Riad (Yamaha) 02:01.3
6. Ryan Tarr (Yamaha) 02:01.8
7. Quentin F. Wilson (Ducati) 02:02.0
8. Miles Thornton (Yamaha) 02:02.2
9. Colter Dimick (Yamaha) 02:02.5
10. Sebastiao Ferreira (Yamaha) 02:02.6
11. Jason Lauritzen (Yamaha) 02:02.7
12. Elena Myers (Suzuki) 02:02.8
13. Travis Ohge (Yamaha) 02:03.0
14. Roi Holster (Yamaha) 02:04.4
