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The annual, rain-delayed, rain-shortened Dunlop Tire Test at Daytona ended with Honda’s Ben Bostrom and Yoshimura Suzuki’s Mat Mladin at the top of the Superbike time charts, Bostrom riding an RC51 and Mladin riding a GSX-R1000. Both turned 1:48s, Bostrom at 1:48.651 and Mladin at 1:48.789.

The test ended before noon on Thursday when it started to rain again.

Thursday morning times from the AMA Pro Racing timing & scoring system follow:

1. Ben Bostrom, Honda RC51, 1:48.651
2. Mat Mladin, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 1:48.789
3. Anthony Gobert, Ducati 998RS, 1:49.271
4. Aaron Yates, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 1:50.276
5. Eric Bostrom, Kawasaki ZX-7RR, 1:50.310
6. Jason Pridmore, Suzuki GSX-R1000, 1:50.479
7. Gaku Kamada, Honda RC51, 1:51.593
8. Aaron Gobert, Yamaha YZF-R6, 1:51.998
9. Kurtis Roberts, Honda CBR600RR, 1:52.497
10. Josh Hayes, Suzuki GSX-R750, 1:52.647
11. Jake Zemke, Honda CBR600RR, 1:53.153
12. Miguel DuHamel, Honda CBR600RR, 1:53.251
13. Jamie Hacking, Yamaha YZF-R6, 1:53.357
14. Jason DiSalvo, Yamaha YZF-R6, 1:53.515
15. Marty Craggill, Honda CBR954RR, 1:53.688
16. Alex Gobert, Honda CBR600RR, 1:53.897
17. Tommy Hayden, Kawasaki ZX-6RR, 1:54.038
18. Damon Buckmaster, Yamaha YZF-R6, 1:54.704
19. Ben Spies, Suzuki GSX-R600, 1:54.792
20. Roger Lee Hayden, Honda CBR600RR, 1:55.285
21. Tony Meiring, Kawasaki ZX-6RR, 1:57.945
22. Marty Craggill, Honda CBR600RR, 1:58.094


*Note: Aaron Gobert said that he straight-lined the chicane on his fastest 600cc lap, and that his actual best lap was a 1:53.00. There is no telling from the raw transponder data who did or did not cut the course on any given lap.