Tray Batey, Chad Herrmann, Dane Westby, Lee Acree and Ben Thompson each won a race at the annual Suzuki Cup Finals, held in conjunction with the WERA Grand National Finals, Sunday at Road Atlanta. Vesrah Suzuki’s Batey, a multi-time SV1000 Cup Champion, pulled his usual disappearing act in the SV1000 event, winning the eight-lap race by nearly nine seconds over Suzuki of Dublin’s Jeff Walker and MSP Cycles’ Ricky Ford. Lucky 7 Racing’s 17-year-old Chad Herrmann then defeated Batey’s teammate Lee Acree and Butler Machinery’s Robert Jensen to win the GSX-R600 Cup final by 0.159 second. T. Westby Corporation’s 20-year-old Dane Westby beat Ghetto Customs’ Chris Parrish to the line by 0.219 second to win his second consecutive SV650 Cup Championship. Acree came out on top of a 10-lap duel with Jensen to win the GSX-R750 Cup Final by 0.121 second. The GSX-R1000 Cup Final was stopped twice by red flags, once when Tim Bemisderfer highsided and landed in the track at Turn Seven and once when Lloyd Bayley tucked the front at over 150 mph in Turn Nine, the kink at the end of the back straightaway. Bemisderfer and Bayley both walked away from their crashes, but due to time constraints the race was called complete after the second, five-lap portion of the race. Batey had led all four laps by a slim yet stable margin over Millennium KWS Suzuki’s Ben Thompson, but in post-race checks on the official dynamometer, Batey’s GSX-R1000 was found to be 0.3 horsepower over the maximum limit. Batey was docked three positions to fourth, and Thompson was named the GSX-R1000 Cup Champion over Jensen and Cyclespace.com’s Keith Marshall. Batey has appealed the decision. According to Vesrah Suzuki team owner Mark Junge, the same procedure was not used to make pre-race dyno runs and post-race dyno runs, and the change in procedure affected the dyno reading for Batey’s GSX-R1000, which Junge said had dynoed at 3.0 horsepower under the limit before the race. 2007 Suzuki Cup Finals Road Atlanta Braselton, Georgia October 14, 2007 Provisional Race Results (listed in chronological order): SV1000: 1. Tray Batey, 8 laps 2. Jeff Walker, -8.959 seconds 3. Ricky Ford, -15.412 seconds 4. Russell Masecar, -42.680 seconds 5. Dave Rosno, -21.132 seconds* * disqualified for illegal airbox modifications GSX-R600: 1. Chad Herrmann, 10 laps 2. Lee Acree, -0.159 second 3. Robert Jensen, -0.663 second 4. Giovanni Rojas, -15.984 seconds 5. James Rispoli, -24.846 seconds 6. James Chance, III, -27.970 seconds 7. Randy Sherman, -29.545 seconds 8. Danny Kelsey, -29.986 seconds 9. Skip Salenius, -31.044 seconds 10. Zac Chapman, -31.608 seconds 11. Chad Dupree, -45.155 seconds 12. Tim Birdsong, -45.325 seconds 13. Josh Smith-Moore, -55.606 seconds 14. Rhiannon Lucente, -89.749 seconds 15. Richard McGill, -93.311 seconds 16. Brett Sassaman, -1 lap, DNF 17. Chad Lewin, -4 laps, DNF, crash 18. Keith Marshall, -4 laps, DNF, crash 19. Bradley Adams, -9 laps, DNF, mechanical 20. Payton Sassaman, DNS 21. Mark Junge, DNS 22. Byron Barbour, DNS SV650: 1. Dane Westby, 8 laps 2. Chris Parrish, -0.219 second 3. Brian Sufferidge, -8.611 seconds 4. Steve Green, -18.403 seconds 5. Arnold Hastings, -21.914 seconds, stop-and-go penalty 6. Russell Stoddard, -21.914 seconds 7. Chris Slay, -24.921 seconds 8. Russell Masecar, -25.506 seconds 9. Josh Smith-Moore, -52.428 seconds 10. George Hovanec, -64.706 seconds 11. Allan Burley, -72.955 seconds 12. Danny Arturo, -1 lap 13. Richard DuBarton, -1 lap 14. Kris Wall, -1 lap, DNF, crash 15. Ricky Ford, -6 laps, DNF, crash 16. Zac Chapman, DNS 17. Scott Layman, DNS GSX-R750: 1. Lee Acree, 10 laps 2. Robert Jensen, -0.121 second 3. Zac Chapman, -10.766 seconds 4. Cory Burleson, -10.877 seconds 5. Keith Marshall, -11.793 seconds 6. Chris “Opie” Caylor, -29.222 seconds 7. Danny Kelsey, -38.001 seconds 8. Gary Combs, -38.001 seconds 9. Lyles Sanders, -38.483 seconds 10. Tim Hunt, -54.772 seconds 11. Jeff Stern, -55.500 seconds 12. Isinovy Calvo, -72.683 seconds 13. Robert Renaud, -96.845 seconds 14. Allan Pett, -1 lap 15. John Jacobi, -3 laps, DNF, crash 16. James Chance, III, -5 laps, DNF, crash 17. Bradley Duncan, -6 laps, DNF 18. Randy Sherman, DNS 19. Byron Barbour, DNS 20. Chad Lewin, DNS GSX-R1000 (shortened by red flag): 1. Ben Thompson, 4 laps 2. Robert Jensen, -2.853 seconds 3. Keith Marshall, -7.334 seconds 4. Tray Batey, -8.139 seconds* 5. Chris “Opie” Caylor, -9.007 seconds 6. James Stroud, -12.746 seconds 7. Seth Starnes, -12.816 seconds 8. Scott Carpenter, -13.800 seconds 9. John Jacobi, -13.858 seconds 10. Lloyd Bayley, -19.680 seconds 11. Garry Combs, -23.136 seconds 12. Tim Vosnick, -24.782 seconds 13. Billy Ethridge, -29.568 seconds 14. Mike Duncan, -38.863 seconds 15. Andy Feuersthaler, -4 laps, DNF, crash 16. Clint McBain, -4 laps, DNF, retired/mechanical 17. Mark Junge, DNS 18. Chad Lewin, DNS 19. Tim Bemisderfer, DNS 20. Mike Smith, DNS * docked three positions for being 0.3 horsepower over the maximum limit