Subway SuperBike Doubleheader/GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin May 31, 2013 Provisional Qualifying One Results (all on Dunlop tires): 1. Cameron Beaubier (Yam YZF-R6), 2:19.908 2. Jake Gagne (Yam YZF-R6), 2:20.475 3. Dane Westby (Hon CBR600RR), 2:21.659 4. JD Beach (Yam YZF-R6), 2:21.660, crash 5. Jake Lewis (Yam YZF-R6), 2:22.325 6. James Rispoli (Suz GSX-R600), 2:22.548 7. Garrett Gerloff (Yam YZF-R6), 2:22.718 8. Joey Pascarella (Tri Daytona 675R), 2:23.823 9. Bobby Fong (Tri Daytona 675R), 2:24.241 10. Benny Solis (Hon CBR600RR), 2:24.837 11. Elena Myers (Tri Daytona 675R), 2:25.041 12. Huntley Nash (Yam YZF-R6), 2:25.053 13. Jason DiSalvo (Tri Daytona 675R), 2:25.217 14. Barrett Long (Duc 848EVO), 2:25.279 15. Ben Young (Yam YZF-R6), 2:25.772 16. Kenny Riedmann (Tri Daytona 675R), 2:26.120 17. Melissa Paris (Hon CBR600RR), 2:26.638 18. Fernando Amantini (Yam YZF-R6), 2:27.161 19. Kyle Wyman (Tri Daytona 675R), 2:28.598 20. Daniel Ortega (Yam YZF-R6), 2:28.860 21. Scott Ryan (Yam YZF-R6), 2:30.369 22. Ron Mears (Hon CBR600RR), 2:33.110 23. Eric Stump (Kaw ZX-6R), 2:33.689 24. Walt Sipp (Bue 1125R), no time recorded More, from a press release issued by Yamaha: Yamaha Extended Service/Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha’s Beaubier Earns Provisional Pole In Road America DSB Qualifying; Four Yamaha R6s In Top Five Elkhart Lake, WI May 31, 2013 – This season’s Daytona 200 Rolex and race winner Cameron Beaubier put his #6 Yamaha Extended Service/Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha YZF-R6 on the provisional pole today in AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike qualifying at Road America. Including Cameron, four of the top five provisional-qualifying riders were Yamaha-mounted. After the session, Cameron said, “I’m happy with my lap time, but I’m hoping I can improve on it tomorrow. It was sprinkling a little bit out there, but not enough to worry about too much. There are a couple of places on the track with heavy braking into the corners, and I think the wind was a factor because it affected my times on a couple of laps when I didn’t hit my markers the way I like. But, overall, I feel good about the session and about earning the provisional pole.” Cameron’s Y.E.S./Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha teammate Garrett Gerloff qualified his #8 R6 in seventh place and is provisionally on row 2 going into final qualifying. That final qualifying session for Daytona SportBike is scheduled for tomorrow at 8:50 AM CST, and DSB Race 1 will go green later tomorrow at 1:00 PM CST. For more news, results, and other team info, be sure to check out Yamaha’s Facebook page and follow us on Twitter @YamahaMotorUSA. More, from a press release issued by GEICO Motorcycle Road Racing: Westby finds confidence, lands on provisional front row at Road America ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (May 31) – GEICO Motorcycle Honda rider Dane Westby shook off the rust from weeks of inactivity on Friday to claim a spot on the provisional front row in the GoPro Daytona SportBike class at the Subway SuperBike Doubleheader at Road America. Westby missed the first race of the GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing Series and weeks of training while recovering from a spleen injury. He admitted it was more intimidating than he first realized to get back on the bike. “Most of the day I was running at amateur pace,” Westby said. “It seemed so fast. I was just kind of scared of the bike after that get-off at Daytona.” For much of the 50-minute qualifying session, Westby was running in the seventh qualifying position. The GEICO team brought him in to tweak the bike, and Westby improved his time but only in fractions of a second and not enough to climb out of seventh. “I was kind of scared to stick the front into the corners,” he said. “I just had to get comfortable with the bike again.” Westby was brought in a second time with about 10 minutes left in the session for fresh tires, an air-pressure adjustment, and some motivational words. “With the lower pressure in the front I could feel the bike better,” Westby said. “It was a bunch of little things we did to get my confidence back up. Most of the two seconds we gained was in my head. “I flipped my performance level from way low to up high. I’m not sure how it happened but it worked.” With his confidence renewed, Westby turned a lap of 2 minutes, 21.659 seconds to jump to the third position on the provisional grid. Cameron Beaubier is the provisional pole sitter with a lap of 2:19.908. “They guys were like, ‘We need this,’ ” Westby said. “I don’t like to hear that I’m not going fast enough – nobody does. It was necessary. “Those little things really did it for me. I had to be friendly with the bike again. My GEICO Motorcycle Honda and I had to come to an understanding.” Westby has one more opportunity to put the GEICO Motorcycle Honda on the pole when qualifying resumes at 8 a.m. CDT on Saturday. The first Daytona SportBike race rolls off at 1 p.m. on Saturday and the second race of the doubleheader at 1 p.m. on Sunday. CBS Sports Network will broadcast the races at 2:30 p.m. EDT on Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday. More, from a press release issued by Team Hammer: TOP TEN FOR SOLIS IN PROVISIONAL QUALIFYING AT ROAD AMERICA Team Hammer returned to action today at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin after the ten-week layoff that followed the 2013 AMA Pro Road Racing season opener at Daytona International Speedway. The squad experienced mixed results. After being forced to sit out the Daytona 200 due to injury and missing weeks of training while he recovered, Dane Westby demonstrated impressive resiliency and form on his Team Hammer-prepared GEICO Honda CBR600RR on Friday. The Oklahoman landed on the provisional front row on the strength of the third-fastest lap (2:21.659) of the day’s Daytona SportBike qualifying session. M4 Broaster Chicken Racing’s Benny Solis also ranked in the Friday SportBike top ten, despite having to contend with the reemergence of intermittent electronics issues with his primary racebike. The young Californian lapped at 2:24.837 to rank tenth on the day. Meanwhile, Chris Ulrich endured a day of frustration as the team continued to develop a replacement engine management system for his M4 Broaster Chicken Honda CBR1000RR Superbike. Forced to shift from a proven electronic control system just prior to the Daytona opener, the team is still trying to get the bike dialed in under braking and corner entry — especially critical at the high-speed Wisconsin circuit. As a result, Ulrich was 15th on the day at 2:20.184, far off his 2012 pace. “Currently, we have a big problem with the engine management system we had to develop after Daytona, specifically on engine braking and corner entry,” Ulrich admitted. “We had a system that worked perfectly, gave us cutback control entering the corners, came in under the electronics price cap and was used by another team during the 2009 season without being questioned. Then we were told we had to change to another type of system that doesn’t work as well. We’re working on it and made some progress but it needs more work. We should be better tomorrow.” MPH Racing’s Melissa Paris was 17th fastest in provisional Daytona SportBike qualifying at 2:26.638 on her Team Hammer Contract Services Honda CBR600RR, two seconds a lap faster than her previous best time at this track. On Saturday morning Westby, Solis, Ulrich, and Paris will claim their final grid positions ahead of the afternoon’s 13-lap SportBike and Superbike contests. More, from a press release issued by LTD Racing: Busy Birthday For “Iron Man” Nash At Road America Elkhart Lake, WI (May 31, 2013) – Racer Huntley Nash spent his 21st birthday at the track and competing two AMA Pro Road Racing classes. Not only is Nash racing his now familiar LTD Racing Yamaha R6 in Daytona SportBike, he is also competing on a Neyra Racing Kawasaki ZX-10R in his Superbike debut this weekend. Nash qualified 12th in DSB despite some issues that forced him to lose track time. Nash had been as high as fourth in the first session. In Superbike, Nash qualified a very promising 16th in his first race weekend in the class. “It was a lot tougher than I thought it would be because there is no rest between the sessions. We had some issues in both classes that cost us track time but we’re working hard. I’d like to do like last year and be up front and this weekend is a really unique challenge,” said Nash. “I’ve been riding the R6 for four years and the ZX-10 is very new to me. We’re were still getting the Superbike’s suspension valving and springs set up for me. It’s been a lot of fun to ride and I’d really like to thank the team for giving me the opportunity.” Nash will once again qualify both machines on Saturday morning, then begin the first of four races he will contest this weekend at the 4.0-mile Wisconsin track. When asked about his 21st birthday, Nash said, ”I pretty much forgot about it because I have been so busy today. Hopefully we’ll do something worth celebrating this weekend and we’ll worry about that Sunday night.”