Reigning AMA Superbike Champion Ben Spies is mad. He is mad that Road Atlanta, a track he loves, has done very little in the 11 years he has been racing there to improve the safety of its last corner, Turn 12. And he’s mad that as a result his friend and competitor Miguel Duhamel is in the hospital with serious internal injuries after crashing in that corner and hitting hay bales and a tire wall at high speed during testing Wednesday. “I don’t want to blast the track too bad, but I’m not too happy,” Spies told Roadracingworld.com Thursday. “Miguel fell. He’s a pretty good friend. And it’s just ridiculous. He’s pretty bad off, not horrible, but for the crash he had it could’ve been a whole lot worse. “It was just a matter of time. That corner was gonna get somebody. Even one of the best riders out there, it got him. I’m sure he wasn’t putting it on the line, but for whatever reason, Miguel fell down. “I’m not happy. I’m really bummed out that he’s hurt. I’m just bummed out that the track won’t fix it. I think they need to move that last wall and another wall or all the riders need to come together and say we’re not going to race there [in 2008]. It’s one of my favorite tracks, and I’ve been going there forever, but it’s just when you’re going 125-130 mph through the last corner and you’ve got a wall 20 feet off the racetrack it’s not safe. It doesn’t need to be like that. Miguel, right now, doesn’t need to be in the hospital. “It just boils down to, it shouldn’t be like that. We shouldn’t have to be going through a corner that fast thinking, ‘Oh, man. If I fall I’m going to be messed up.’ “Some walls you can get to. It’s like, ‘That’s a little too close.’ Sometimes you throw the Airfence up to band-aid it. But that corner is just ridiculously close. It doesn’t even matter about Airfence. If you lowside right there it’s gonna do one of three things: it’s gonna peel up the Airfence and you’re gonna go into the wall, or you’re going to follow your bike into the Airfence and hit metal, or you’re going to get into the Airfence and the bike’s going to chase you into it. “I know I’m going on and on about it, but it just needs to be moved and something needs to happen soon.”