Yamaha’s
Josh Hayes schooled the competition in Sunday’s final American SuperBike race from Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Staring from pole position, Hayes was in command from the start establishing a blistering pace that no one could even come close to matching. He led every one of the 23-laps and finished nine-seconds ahead of second-place.
Suzuki’s
Blake Young narrowly edged out Hayes’ teammate
Josh Herrin after a four-way battle for second-place between Buell’s Danny Eslick and Jordan Suzuki’s
Ben Bostrom. With only a few laps to go Young passed Herrin for second-place. It appeared that Herrin was going to be unable to retaliate until he made a daring inside pass on the final lap. Young stayed with him through and were able to draft by two-hundredths of a second at the finish line.
“It was a pretty good race for us today,” said Young. “We made it hard for ourselves not having a good qualifying yesterday. Just finding rhythm and getting it together. We got it together by race time and I’m happy with second today… but I want to get back up into the front. It’s been a tough year for us—I can’t tell you what the problem is.”
Eslick finished fourth-place, just under four-tenths of a second behind Young/Herrin. Ben Bostrom slotted in fifth position in front of the second Buell piloted by
Geoff May.
AMA American SuperBike Laguna Seca Race Results:
1. Josh Hayes (Yamaha)
2. Blake Young (Suzuki)
3. Josh Herrin (Yamaha)
4. Danny Eslick (Buell)
5. Ben Bostrom (Suzuki)
6. Geoff May (Buell)
7. Taylor Knapp (Suzuki)
8. Roger Lee Hayden (Suzuki)
9. Stefan Nebel (KTM)
10. Larry Pegram (BMW)
11. Chris Ulrich (Suzuki)
12. Glenn Allerton (BMW)
13. Ricky Corey (Yamaha)
14. Jordan Burgess (Suzuki)
15. Chris Clark (Suzuki)
16. Ivan Sala (Suzuki)
17. Johnny Rock Page (Suzuki)
18. Bostjan Skubic (Suzuki)
19. Jake Holden (Honda)
20. Steve Rapp (Kawasaki)
21. David Anthony (Suzuki)
22. Reno Karimian (Kawasaki)
American SuperBike Championship Points:
1. Josh Hayes, 415
2. Blake Young, 341
3. Josh Herrin, 246
4. Roger Hayden, 217
5. Geoff May, 205
6. Larry Pegram, 193
7. Danny Eslick, 165
8. Ben Bostrom, 162
9. Chris Clark, 152
10. Steve Rapp, 151
