Looks like there's no real competition for Mladin this year. It was no big surprise that Mat took first in both Fontana AMA SuperBike races this weekend. In race one on Saturday, teammate Tommy Hayden tried to make a race of it, but Mladin finally tired of playing and got on with business, winning by nearly 9 seconds. Geoff May (Suzuki) arrived at the checkered flag third. Like I said earlier, this year there's no race for first. In fact Mladin doesn't even need to show up ... just give him the trophy now. He's a world class rider walking all over a domestic series ... but I think without him as mentor and competition, Ben Spies wouldn't be the rider he is today. Time for Mat to retire.
Behind Mat on Sunday, the race was Hayden and Yates until Hayden missed a couple of gears in the middle of the race on the front straight and they made contact, with Yates having one of those on-film-forever moments saving the bike. Hayden kept going on a slightly damaged bike for another second. After a highside early in race one, Larry Pegram managed third on his Ducati in race two. I suppose we might as well give Hayden second for the season and send him home as well ... or make the Yoshimura GSXR1000's carry 50lb lead weights to give the other teams a chance.
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Mat has it too good! $'s, Bike, and Team, His words, when asked why he hasn't moved up to WSB or GP.
ReplyDeleteBack in the bad old days, they used to have a couple of races a year where AMA racers and Europe's best would compete. It would be nice to see that again, AMA WSB and GP Put them all on 250 Aprillia's equally prepared and let them go at it hammer and tong.