Mat Didn't Win One Race?

For the first time in a long time, Mat Mladin did not win this weekend's AMA Superbike race. That's right, someone else finished first in race 1 while Mat trailed in 5th. For the first time in a very, very long time, first place in race 1 did not go to a Yoshimura Suzuki rider. So who won? Doesn't really matter, but if you must know, it was Josh Hayes on a Yamaha. There's those darn Yamahas again. Mat Mladin was back in race 2 and started a fresh winning streak ... the old one was getting stale anyway. I wonder if the AMA paid Mat to throw a race just to keep audience interst? Didn't work for me.