Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix/GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California July 20, 2013 Provisional Combined Qualifying Results (all on Dunlop tires): 1. Josh Hayes (Yam YZF-R1), 1:24.507 2. Roger Hayden (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:24.797 3. Josh Herrin (Yam YZF-R1), 1:25.198 4. Martin Cardenas (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:25.369 5. Danny Eslick (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:25.595 6. Larry Pegram (Yam YZF-R1), 1:26.233 7. Taylor Knapp (KTM RC8R), 1:26.274 8. Chris Fillmore (KTM RC8R), 1:26.488 9. Aaron Yates (EBR 1190RS), 1:26.642 10. Cory West (EBR 1190RS), 1:26.683 11. Geoff May (EBR 1190RS), 1:26.701 12. Robertino Pietri (Kaw ZX-10R), 1:26.822 13. David Anthony (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:27.069 14. Chris Ulrich (Hon CBR1000RR), 1:27.628 15. Dustin Dominguez (EBR 1190RS), 1:27.634 16. Chris Clark (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:27.700 17. Reese Wacker (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:28.642 107% of Fast Time: 1:30.422 18. Jacquel Gonzalez (Kaw ZX-10R), 1:30.757 19. Mathew Orange (BMW S1000RR), 1:30.841 20. Aaron Ascher (Kaw ZX-10R), 1:31.606 21. Johnny Rock Page (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:32.031 More, from a press release issued by Yamaha: A Hayes Descends On Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca And Earns His Sixth SuperBike Pole In A Row For Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha Monterey, CA – July 20, 2013 – Three-time defending AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike Champion Josh Hayes is a perfect five for five in pole positions this season and six for six going back to the final round of the 2012 SuperBike season. Riding his signature #1 Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha YZF-R1, Josh was the fastest SuperBike competitor in the morning’s provisional qualifying session at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, and he bettered his time in the afternoon’s final qualifying event. Hayes’ teammate and rider of the #2 R1, Josh Herrin set his fastest time of the day in provisional qualifying, and he will also start on the front row for tomorrow’s single SuperBike race of the weekend. After earning his sixth-consecutive pole, Hayes said, “It was a pretty good session for me. My team and I worked a little bit on our setup and race pace, and I was able to go a little faster than I did this morning, so that was good. It’s always great to get that extra point for the pole, and I’ve got five of them, so that’s five bonus points. Those points are always important, and they’re especially important this season because we’re all still pretty close in points (in the SuperBike Championship standings).” Herrin said, “The session got shortened, but it still went pretty well for us. I’m happy to be on the front row, and I’m also glad that I’m going faster in these qualifying sessions. I’ve been working hard on my fitness, and it’s obviously paying dividends for me.” Tomorrow afternoon’s SuperBike race from Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca is set to go green at 3:45 PM PST. Beaubier and Gerloff Qualify 1-2 In AMA Pro Go Pro Daytona SportBike Cameron Beaubier–like his Yamaha teammate Josh Hayes–is also perfect on the season in DSB final qualifying, as the rider of the #6 Y.E.S./Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha YZF-R6 also notched his sixth pole position of the season based on the record-breaking lap that he ran in yesterday’s provisional qualifying at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Cameron’s teammate Garrett Gerloff made a huge jump from his fourth-place result in provisional qualifying. Garrett put his #8 Y.E.S./Monster into 2nd place in today’s final qualifying session, and he’ll start right next to Cameron on the front row for tomorrow morning’s single DSB race of the weekend. Commenting on his pole-position-earning effort, Cameron said, “We made a couple of changes this morning to the rear shock. The fog was a little tricky, but we saw Garrett going faster, and we decided to put in a new rear tire. We didn’t improve on our time from yesterday, but I feel really good about our setup for the race.” “The bike was really good for me today,” Garrett said. “Every time I go out on the track, I learn something more, and it showed today. I’m really glad that I was able to improve my position, and I’m looking forward to starting the race right next to Cameron on the front row.” Tomorrow morning’s Daytona SportBike race from Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca will start at 11:15 AM PST. 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 AMA Pro Racing: Six Pack: Josh Hayes Outduels Roger Hayden at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca to Win Sixth Straight AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike Pole Position MONTEREY, Calif. (July 20, 2013) – Triple AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike champion Josh Hayes raised his game to meet the challenge of on-form rival Roger Hayden and secured his 27th career premier-class pole position on Saturday at the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. While National Guard Jordan Suzuki pilot Hayden turned the fastest lap on Friday, Hayes put the Monster Energy Yamaha YZF-R1 back on top today as the two pushed their lap times well into the 1:24s to round out an exciting day of GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing and MotoGP World Championship action. Hayes ultimately took the pole with a fast lap of 1:24.507, 0.290 seconds stronger than the Kentuckian’s best mark of 1:24.797. The pole is Hayes’ sixth in succession. He admitted putting in a bit of extra effort to claim this one: “We wanted to make sure we got it, so we threw two tires at it — we don’t always go that route. We went out on a used tire from a the first session, rode five or six laps, came in and got a new tire, did five or six laps and improved. We came and got another fresh tire and got in another good, solid set of laps.” Asked if he was expecting a close race, Hayes said, “Maybe… Who knows? We’ve had a lot of close qualifyings but doing race pace for a long time is different. It’s really difficult here. It’s so easy to make a mistake that costs a lot. A couple years ago I had a little gap and made a mistake in the Corkscrew and that led into one or two more mistakes in short order and all the sudden it was a race again. Last year, I was able to have a pretty clean race. I don’t feel I’m riding as clean as I was last year, but I still have pretty good pace. I did a couple of ’24s and I haven’t seen anyone else do that. “We’ll just have to see how it plays out.” No other rider managed a time under the 1:25-barrier in the day’s two qualifying sessions. Hayes’ teammate, Josh Herrin, earned the final position on the front row (MotoGP’s standard three-rider-per-row grid slotting is utilized at this event) with a fast lap of 1:25.198. Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing’s Martin Cardenas (1:25.369) will front Row 2, ahead of Hayden’s Michael Jordan Motorsport teammate, Danny Eslick (1:25.595). Foremost Insurance Pegram Racing’s Larry Pegram narrowly picked up the final spot on the second row, lapping just 0.041 seconds better than Taylor Knapp, who is in the midst of his best weekend yet aboard the KTM/HMC Racing RC8R. Knapp will be joined on Row 3 by his KTM-mounted teammate, Chris Fillmore, and Team AMSOIL/Hero’s hard-charging Aaron Yates. Hayes will look to show the huge crowd expected on Sunday exactly why he’s poised to become the first man to win four consecutive AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike titles in tomorrow’s 23-lap, 50-mile main event. AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike Cameron Beaubier won pole for Sunday’s AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Beaubier’s Friday time held up for the best mark as the famous Monterey fog made conditions just less than ideal. The Yamaha Extended Service/Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha pilot extended his pole streak that has spanned the duration of the 2013 season with a time of 1:26.698 and will head the three-rider rows used for this event. “We made a couple changes for this morning on the rear shock and it helped a little bit,” Beaubier said. “I was a little timid with all the fog and stuff. I saw Garrett [Gerloff] going fast at the end, so we put in a soft tire with a couple minutes to go and tried to better my lap time, but I was a couple tenths off or so. I felt good this morning — we’re still dialing in the bike a little bit and we’ll try again in the warm-up. But for right now, I think we’re looking good for the race.” Garrett Gerloff earned second position for the start of the race. Gerloff was one of the few top riders able to go faster on Saturday morning and leapt to second on the charts with his lap of 1:27.524 on the other Y.E.S./Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha machine. “We showed up here yesterday, and the bike was really good for me,” Gerloff said. “We haven’t really changed anything yesterday or today and every time I go out I figure something out on the track and get more and more comfortable. I feel really good for the race tomorrow. Hopefully I can drop some more time because I’m going to need it to keep up with Cameron.” Jake Gagne dropped from second to third fastest in qualifying on the RoadRace Factory/Red Bull machine but essentially matched his time from Friday despite making some changes to the bike that he won’t keep for the race. “We wanted to change some things so we made a bunch of changes this morning,” Gagne said. “This morning wasn’t very good — we were able to match the time but we’ll go back to what we had before and try something else in the warm-up if the warm-up is okay. We’re on the front row, so that’s all right.” Jason DiSalvo was fourth on the Latus Motors Racing Triumph, saying that the nature of the circuit helps his pace as his team continues to develop the Triumph Daytona 675. DiSalvo said the flowing nature of the track helps him keep up the roll speed he needs to set good lap times. The New Yorker will be joined on row two by Jake Lewis (Meen Motorsports) and JD Beach (RoadRace Factory/Red Bull). Row three will consist of Dane Westby on the GEICO Motorcycle Road Race Honda, Bobby Fong on the Triumph, and James Rispoli on the National Guard Celtic Racing machine. Joey Pascarella rounded out the top ten on his Riders Discount Triumph, making it a diverse front of the grid with five Yamahas, three Triumphs, one Suzuki and a Honda. AMA Pro Motorcycle-Superstore.com SuperSport The AMA Pro Motorcycle-SuperStore.com SuperSport race was a wild one, with California Superbike School/RoadracingWorld.com’s Joe Roberts emerging triumphant over RoadRace Factory’s Tomas Puerta and National Guard Celtic Racing’s Corey Alexander by just 0.117 after 16 laps. The final lap was the wildest, with Puerta and Roberts fighting for position and Alexander right there as well. The run to the checkered flag proved to be a fantastic opening to the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix weekend, with Roberts barely able to hold off his rivals. Roberts had dropped to third with two laps to go after making a mistake going up the hill, but passed Alexander in the corkscrew. On the last lap, he made a bold pass of Puerta in the same spot and then won the drag race to the line. “It’s been like a dream come true to come to Laguna and win. I’ve always wanted to come here and ride and to come here and win is just amazing,” said Roberts, who begins his AMA Pro career with three wins. “It was a really, really good race. I thought I’d be able to pull away and do something like I did at Barber but the guys were really quick this weekend. It was a hard race for sure, but I put my head down. I made a little mistake so I had to make some aggressive passes to get right back to the front.” At the end, 0.294 seconds separated the leading three riders. Jeffrey Tigert earned fourth and had an excellent contest. Before a red flag condition caused a restart around the halfway mark, the Baby Appleseed/CM Motorsports racer ran in the lead pack and, after the restart, rose to the top of a group of six riders just off the leading trio and vying for position. Motosport.com RSRacecraft rider Stefano Mesa was fifth, followed by Sebastiao Ferriera (BP Racing), Wyatt Farris (Jon Block Group Sports Meen Motorsports), CJ Weaver (BP Racing), and Gearzy’s Ryan Matter. Puerta expanded his points lead after the race and now leads by 45 over Tigert heading into the Miller Motorsports Park round. Streaming Video Saturday’s Motorcycle-Superstore.com SuperSport race is now available on the AMA Pro Live Online DVR at http://www.amaprolive.com/rr/dvr/. TV Broadcasts Sunday’s GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing finals from Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca will be aired in a set of tape-delayed broadcasts on CBS Sports Network. Flag-to-flag coverage of the AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike and AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike races scheduled for Sunday afternoon will be featured in one-hour broadcasts as part of the CBS Sports Spectacular. Television broadcast airdates and times will be released as soon as they are available. Stay connected with GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing on social media at http://twitter.com/AMAProSBK and http://www.facebook.com/AMAProRoadRacing. About GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing: GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing is the premier motorcycle road racing series in North America and is universally regarded as one of the most competitive road racing organizations in the world. The 2013 schedule consists of nine rounds of competition on the country’s finest road courses. The Series is comprised of four production-based classes: AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike, AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike, AMA Pro Motorcycle-Superstore.com SuperSport and the AMA Pro Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson Series. Learn more about GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing at www.amaproracing.com/rr/. AMA Pro Racing is the premier professional motorcycle racing organization in North America, operating a full schedule of events and championships for a variety of motorcycle disciplines. Learn more about AMA Pro Racing at www.amaproracing.com. More, from a press release issued by Geiger Media on behalf of AMSOIL: AMSOIL pros Yates, May say their EBR motorcycles are ready to race MONTEREY, Calif. (July 20) – When the green light flashes for Sunday’s Red Bull U.S Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, AMSOIL-backed riders Aaron Yates and Geoff May think they may be able to surprise a few people in the National Guard SuperBike category. Yates and May were solid, if not spectacular, in qualifying their Hero/Erik Buell Racing 1190RS ninth and 11th, respectively, on Sunday’s grid. Following their Moto GP counterparts, the grid will be three bikes wide at this event, putting Yates on the outside of Row 3 and May in the middle of the Row 4. “I had just posted my best lap of the weekend in the morning qualifying session and I was a good way through an even better lap when the engine let go,” Yates said of his 1:26.642 circuit in Q1. “It was a shame because the incremental numbers showed that we would have been quite a bit quicker. “We came back to the pit and the guys changed motors and were hoping for big things in Q2, but the motor we put in there just wasn’t quite as good as the primary. It was really laboring coming up the hills. I was riding it as hard as I could and the chassis was perfect, but we didn’t have the horsepower we needed.” With one practice session left at 9:10 a.m. Sunday, Yates said his team has made the decision to try another powerplant in hopes it will better respond to their needs. “We’re gonna go for it,” Yates said. “Our times in the second qualifying session pretty much set the course for us. I think we’ll be fine. Hopefully the practice session tomorrow morning will show some promise.” May’s day wasn’t quite as dramatic, although he admits to hoping for a slightly better time than his official clocking of 1:26.701. “I wanted to be closer to the front but it didn’t happen, so I’ll probably take a few more chances early on,” he said. “There is a big group of riders that are all very close on the timing sheet, so a premium will be placed on how everyone rides. “I plan on being aggressive. There’s a huge crowd here with the Moto GP guys in town, and it’s so much fun to ride when the entire track is surrounded with people screaming and yelling for us. It pumps you up.” The 23-lap main event begins at 3:45 p.m. on Sunday.