Buckeye Superbike Weekend/AMA Pro Road Racing AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio July 15, 2012 Provisional Race Two Results (all on Dunlop tires): 1. Cameron Beaubier (Yam YZF-R6), 21 laps 2. Dane Westby (Suz GSX-R600), -0.780 second 3. Bobby Fong (Yam YZF-R6), -0.920 4. Martin Cardenas (Suz GSX-R600), -6.178 seconds 5. Tommy Hayden (Yam YZF-R6), -6.260 6. Cory West (Suz GSX-R600), -17.193 7. Huntley Nash (Yam YZF-R6), -17.837 8. JD Beach (Yam YZF-R6), -18.082 9. Joey Pascarella (Suz GSX-R600), -18.316 10. Austin Dehaven (Yam YZF-R6), -33.399 11. Fernando Amantini (Kaw ZX-6R), -40.278 12. Jake Gagne (Yam YZF-R6), -40.539 13. Kenny Riedmann (Tri Daytona 675), -42.965 14. Josh Galster (Yam YZF-R6), -46.119 15. Bryce Prince (Yam YZF-R6), -46.197 16. Shane Narbonne (Yam YZF-R6), -51.620 17. Scott Ryan (Yam YZF-R6), -54.442 18. Michael Morgan (Tri 675), -76.497 19. Daniel Ortega (Yam YZF-R6), -83.330 20. Jason DiSalvo (Tri Daytona 675R), -1 lap, 18.411 seconds, pitted 21. Michael Beck (Yam YZF-R6), -3 laps, DNF, crash 22. David Gaviria (Yam YZF-R6), -4 laps, DNF 23. Jake Zemke (Duc 848EVO), -6 laps, DNF, mechanical 24. Jeff Wrobel (Yam YZF-R6), -6 laps, DNF 25. Benny Solis (Yam YZF-R6), -9 laps, DNF, crash 26. Derek Wagnon (Duc 848EVO), -19 laps, DNF, crash 27. Nahun Gonzalez (Yam YZF-R6), DNS Championship Point Standings (After 12 of 19 races): 1. Cardenas, 287 points 2. Westby, 247 3. Hayden, 213 4. Beaubier, 204 5. DiSalvo, 194 6. TIE, Beach/Zemke, 166 8. Fong, 162 9. West, 143 10. Pascarella, 141 11. Nash, 98 12. Solis, 87 13. Gagne, 85 14. Amantini, 82 15. Beck, 81 16. Prince, 72 17. DeHaven, 68 18. TIE, Gaviria/Galster, 29 20. Wagnon, 27 More, from a press release issued by Yamaha: Beau’ Coup For Yamaha Extended Service/Graves/Yamaha Rider Beaubier Who Wins Daytona SportBike Race 2 At Mid-Ohio; Teammate Hayden Finishes Fifth Lexington, OH July 15, 2012 19-year-old Cameron Beaubier showed, once again, that he’s a rider to be reckoned with in AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike competition as he notched another win on the season, this time in Sunday’s Race 2 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The Yamaha Extended Service/Graves/Yamaha rider expertly raced himself to the front of the field and held onto the position with steely determination as the laps wound down, ultimately finishing the race with a comfortable lead as he took the checkered flag. Cameron, who has won three of the last four DSB races, said, “I knew I had the pace to win, and I was just trying to get out front. Once I got in the lead, I put together some fast laps, and I was able to pull away from the pack. It was a great day, and I can’t thank my entire Y.E.S./Graves/Yamaha crew enough.” Cameron’s Y.E.S./Graves/Yamaha teammate Tommy Hayden was also in the lead pack throughout the majority of the race and finished fifth. Tommy is currently in third place in the Daytona SportBike Championship points standings, and Cameron has now moved up to fourth place, despite missing some races earlier in the season due to injury. The Y.E.S./Graves/Yamaha team will make the road trip back to California where they’ll return to action the weekend after next at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on July 27-29 for Round 9 of the AMA GoPro Daytona SportBike Championship. For news, results, and other team info, be sure to check out Yamaha’s Facebook page. More, from a press release issued by LTD Racing: NASH REBOUNDS TO EQUAL CAREER-BEST DSB FINISH AT MID-OHIO Lexington, OH (July 15, 2012) — LTD Racing’s Huntley Nast equaled his best DSB result yet with seventh place in the second AMA Pro Daytona SportBike race from Mid-Ohio. Nash battled with others well inside the top ten in the 21-lap race, which was stopped once for a red flag, and turned his weekend around with a stellar result. The 20-year-old pushed hard on Sunday to rebound after his season took some hits following his excellent Road America round in June that set the high mark in his switch to the Daytona SportBike class. Nash began the weekend well on Friday but retired from Saturday’s race. Huntley focused to improve on his ninth place starting position and to run strong the entire 21 laps. Nash was under duress the entire event as other riders tried to pass him. “When you’re leading the train, you don’t know if the other riders are faster than you or not. If somebody makes a move and then you get back by, you can feel better about how it is going and you can find where you are stronger and where you need to work,” said Nash. “It was wearing me out for a while, but I was able to find the sectors where I wasn’t as good and I was able to put together a good race.” “It was a good race. My best lap and my last lap were 0.3 apart. I dusted my best time here by 0.8. I felt good,” Huntley said. “I raced with some quality guys and I could have tried a pass at the end for sixth but I decided to play it a little safe and not risk seventh after a couple of mishaps in the last couple of races for me and the team. I felt good on the bike again and had a lot of fun out there and I think we turned some things around with this one. Now it’s on to Laguna, one of my favorite tracks.” More, from a press release issued by Geiger Media on behalf of GEICO: Podium finish evades points leader Cardenas in second Mid-Ohio race LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 15) – GEICO Suzuki rider Martin Cardenas salvaged a fourth-place finish Sunday in the AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike series during the Buckeye SuperBike weekend at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Cardenas, who finished second in Saturday’s race at Mid-Ohio, led during the early stages of the 21-lap race, but just after halfway, the bike developed a chatter on some sections of the course, which put Cardenas into conservation mode. “It became very difficult to maintain the pace of the front guys,” Cardenas said. “I had to back off a little bit and concentrate on not getting passed by Tommy Hayden. I had to conserve the fourth place and that just proved to be the best I could do today.” Cardenas got a solid start and led the first laps before getting passed, settling into third and biding his time. The race was then red-flagged on Lap 5 due to rain and some safety equipment repairs. The GEICO Suzuki jumped back into the lead on the ensuing restart and Cardenas led until Lap 12 when the troubles began. The 29-year-old Colombian tried to keep pace with the lead pack, but the chatter became too difficult to overcome and Cardenas turned his attention to getting the best finish possible for maximum points. “A bad day for us has been fourth or fifth,” said Cardenas, who has won six times this year. “That’s really good in the bigger picture. This season we’ve been strong. The team is great and they’ve been working awesome with me since the start of the year.” Cardenas retains his series points lead, which shrinks to 40 points over Dane Westby. Cardenas said the team will turn its attention to getting back to the top of the podium at the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix, July 27-29, at Laguna Seca. “I like Laguna,” Cardenas said. “It’s a good track for me. I think we’ll get better results than we got here this weekend.”