Yoshimura Suzuki's Mat Mladin broke his own record for the most AMA Superbike wins in a single season by picking up his 12th victory at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia on Sunday.
It was Mladin's sixth AMA Superbike race win in a row as well as his 63rd career victory in the class which gave the six-time AMA Superbike Champion command of the AMA Superbike points chase going into the series' final round at Laguna Seca later this month.
Team mate and defending AMA Superbike Champion Ben Spies followed Mladin home in second place while Tommy Hayden finished in seventh place.
Sunday's 20-lap race was the second of two AMA Superbike races in this weekend's double-header event.
Mat Mladin"Our goal this year was to try and win as many races on the Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000 as possible. With some bad starts and a couple of crashes we've given away a few. But we're in a good position and it's nice to win and it's nice to get the Suzuki working so well that we can pull away a little bit when we need to. Laguna Seca is going to be a good race and we're looking forward to it."
Ben Spies"We had a pretty good race; I rode as hard as I could the whole time. We ran into a few tyre problems and I figured that I would just ride as hard as I could and, with the pace Mat was going, maybe he'd run into a problem. I couldn't see him going that fast and not having a problem, but he didn't. We didn't make any big mistakes - we just didn't have the speed today - but I rode as hard as I could and that's all I could do. The Suzuki worked pretty good and we're just going to go to Laguna now and go for the win. Laguna's been a good track to us in the past so hopefully we'll get it done there. It should be a good last race."
Tommy Hayden "I felt all right today but not as good as yesterday. We made some changes to the Suzuki from yesterday and we went the wrong way. We had a good bike yesterday but just a small problem. We tried to fix that - and we did - but we also created some other issues in doing that. It wasn't what I'd hoped for. Now I'm just working with my crew to get ready for Laguna Seca and finish the season on a positive note."
All of Suzuki's road race teams will return for the final round of the AMA Superbike Series at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California, the weekend of Sept. 15 - 16, 2007.
AMA Superbike Top 10 Finishers - Mat Mladin (Yoshimura Suzuki)
- Ben Spies (Yoshimura Suzuki)
- Jamie Hacking (Kawasaki)
- Aaron Yates (Jordan Suzuki)
- Roger Hayden (Kawasaki)
- Jake Zemke (Honda)
- Tommy Hayden (Yoshimura Suzuki)
- James Ellison (Honda)
- Jake Holden (Jordan Suzuki)
- Eric Bostrom (Yamaha)
AMA Superbike Points Standings
- Mladin - 618 points
- Spies - 615 points
- Zemke - 441 points
- Yates - 436 points
- Hayden - 429 points
- Hacking - 403 points
- Duhamel - 360 points
- R. Hayden - 344 points
- Bostrom - 336 points
- Disalvo - 335 points
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