Batey, Caylor, Wood, Jensen, Lynn Win Suzuki Cup Finals At Road Atlanta

Batey, Caylor, Wood, Jensen, Lynn Win Suzuki Cup Finals At Road Atlanta

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Tray Batey, Chris “Opie” Caylor, Jimmy Wood, Robert Jensen and Matt Lynn each won a Suzuki Cup Final Sunday at the WERA Grand National Finals (GNF) at Road Atlanta. In spite of riding with a fractured bone in his right foot, Batey won the SV1000 Cup Final by six seconds on his Pirelli-equipped Vesrah Suzuki. Batey’s team owner Mark Junge, who rode with a broken left hand, finished second. Ghetto Custom’s Cale Swiger finished third on a Dunlop-fitted machine. After a race-long duel, Team EMGO Taiwan’s Caylor passed Kienast Homes’ Ty Howard with less than two laps to go to win the GSX-R600 Cup Final. Second-year Expert Keith Marshall finished third on a Hotbodies Racing-sponsored Suzuki. Vesrah Suzuki’s Wood was awarded the SV650 Cup win after the race was stopped on lap six of eight because Tim Brewer had crashed hard into the Airfence in front of a concrete retaining wall outside of high-speed turn 12. Brewer was completely uninjured in the crash and even stood up and took a bow. At the time of the incident, Wood had held a modest lead from the start over Performance Psycle’s Brian Sufferidge, who finished second. Sloan’s Motorcycles & ATVs Tim Birdsong came out on top of a fight for third with SV Race Shop’s Kris Wall. Robert Jensen crashed in one of the first races of the four-day GNF event and separated his right shoulder. He sat out all of his races over the next two days, opting to rest his injury and concentrate on the GSX-R750 Cup Final, and the strategy paid off with a win. Team Stargel’s Brian Stokes was a close second to Jensen, while third-place Howard completed a Michelin sweep of the podium. Team Embry’s Matt Lynn took the lead of the GSX-R1000 Cup Final on lap two and pulled away to win the red-flag-shortened event by four seconds on his Pirelli-tired Suzuki. Stokes was second from lap three to the red flag but was demoted three finishing positions to fifth when his GSX-R1000 went 0.2 horsepower over the 175 maximum horsepower limit in post-race checks. Caylor, who rode a Corona Extra-sponsored GSX-R1000, was promoted to second. Racersupply.com’s Ben Thompson was fourth (behind Lynn, Stokes and Caylor) when he caught a false neutral going into the new turn three chicane, crashed and his GSX-R1000 caught on fire, forcing the race to be stopped. Stokes’ demotion and Thompson’s exclusion for causing the red flag promoted Ronayersmotorsports.com’s Scott Carpenter to third. Based on his qualifying performances, Mike Smith looked to be a contender in the GSX-R600, GSX-R750 and GSX-R1000 finals on his Suzuki of Canton-backed machines, but the former factory Superbike star highsided out of the GSX-R600 final early Sunday afternoon and suffered a concussion that prevented him from riding for the rest of the day. Suzuki Cup Finals Results (listed in chronological order): SV1000: 1. Tray Batey; 2. Mark Junge; 3. Cale Swiger; 4. Brad Duncan; 5. Tim Birdsong; 6. Russell Masecar; 7. Arnold Hastings; 8. Gary Schiling. GSX-R600: 1. Chris “Opie” Caylor; 2. Ty Howard; 3. Keith Marshall; 4. Chris Siglin; 5. Reuben Frankenfield; 6. Ryan Elleby; 7. John Jacobi; 8. Telly Steimel; 9. Brandon Parrish; 10. Scott Jackson; 11. Derek Keyes; 12. Gio Rojas; 13. Daniel Parkerson; 14. Justin Marm; 15. Andy Feuersthaler; 16, Josh Smith-Moore; 17. Jimmy Wood; 18. Troy Meikle; 19. Skip Salenius; 20. Mike Smith, -10 laps, DNF, crash. SV650: 1. Jimmy Wood; 2. Brian Sufferidge; 3. Tim Birdsong; 4. Kris Wall; 5. Russell Masecar; 6. Chris Parrish; 7. Van Salt; 6. Dustin Dominguez; 7. Gary Schiling; 8. Thomas Williams; 9. Steve Bruton, DNF, crash; 10. Ricky Ford, DNF, crash; 11. Tim Brewer, DNF, crash. GSX-R750: 1. Robert Jensen; 2. Brian Stokes; 3. Ty Howard; 4. John Jacobi; 5. Chris Siglin; 6. Ryan Elleby; 7. Ben Thompson; 8. Reuben Frankenfield; 9. Chad Lewin; 10. Shawn Conrad; 11. Andy Feuersthaler; 12. Justin Marm; 13. Scott Carpenter; 14. Michael Garofalo; 15. Brandon Parrish; 16. Billy Ethridge; 17, Chad Dupree; 18. Skip Salenius; 19. Arnold Hastings; 20. Mark Brereton; 21. Jeffrey Agnes; 22. Troy Meikle, DNF; 23. Joe Hayes, DNF; 24. Dustin Meador, DNF; 25. Mike Smith, DNS; 26. Shannon Ball, DNS. GSX-R1000: 1. Matt Lynn (Suz GSX-R1000); 2. Chris “Opie” Caylor; 3. Scott Carpenter; 4. Reuben Frankenfield; 5. Brian Stokes*; 6. Ty Howard; 7. Logan Young; 8. Shawn Conrad; 9. Cale Swiger; 10. Rich Molinaro; 11. Arnold Hastings; 12. Byron Barbour, DNF, crash; 13. Ben Thompson, DNF, crash; 14. Mike Smith, DNS. *penalized three positions for being 0.2 horsepower over limit.

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