Yoshimura Suzuki’s Mat Mladin set pole position for Saturday’s opening AMA Superbike Championship race in Daytona, Florida today with team mate Ben Spies a close second. Reigning Champion Mladin put in a time of 1:37.075 on his GSX-R1000 – a faster time than the six-time Champion did last year at the same event – with Spies less than half-a-second behind.
Third Yoshimura team rider Aaron Yates recorded the ninth fastest time and will lead the all-Suzuki third-row which includes Roberto Pietri, Eric Wood and Jake Holden.
LB will be attempting to cover the upcoming American AMA race series as well as national and international series' such as WSB and BSB. The AMA race series provides compelling and different superbike/supersport racing to other series and invariably ends up with exciting results!
Daytona AMA Superbike Qualifying (Thursday):
1 Mat Mladin (Yoshimura Suzuki) 1:37.075
2 Ben Spies (Yoshimura Suzuki) 1:37.559
3 Ben Bostrom (Ducati) 1:38.012
4 Miguel Duhamel (Honda) 1:38.337
5 Jake Zemke (Honda) 1:38.398
6 Neil Hodgson (Ducati) 1:38.491
7 Roger Lee Hayden (Kawasaki) 1:38.573
8 Tommy Hayden (Kawasaki) 1:38.904
9 Aaron Yates (Yoshimura Suzuki) 1:39.429
10 Jake Holden (Suzuki) 1:40.470
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