Red Bull AMA U.S. Rookies Cup Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis, Indiana September 13, 2008 Provisional Results (All on KTM RC125 motorcycles and Dunlop tires) 1. Jake Gagne, USA, 16 laps, 31:29.322 2. Hayden Gillim, USA, -0.204-second 3. Austin DeHaven, USA, -29.238 seconds 4. Tomas Puerta, Colombia, -30.527 5. Jake Morman, USA, -44.280 6. Leandro Mercado, Argentina, -51.232, crash 7. Joey Pascarella, USA, -56.578, jumped start, ride-through penalty 8. Emerson Connor, Canada, -59.909 9. Bryce Prince, USA, -64.366 10. Travis Wyman, USA, -66.241 11. Austin Medrano, USA, -66.250 12. Jake Cunningham, USA, -67.842 13. Jesse Stevens, USA, -68.791 14. Frankie Lee Gillim, USA, -69.229 15. Corey Rech, USA, -83.705, crash 16. Corey Alexander, USA, -88.289 17. Otavio Lucchini, Brasil, -101.342 18. Garet Tomlinson, USA, DNF, -8 laps 19. Cameron Gish, USA, DNF, -9 laps, crash 20. Benny Solis, USA, DNF, -11 laps, crash 21. Huntley Nash, USA, DNF, -12 laps, crash Provisional Point Standings (after 9 of 10 rounds, best 9 finishes count) 1. Benny Solis, North Hollywood, California, 156 points 2. Hayden Gillim, Owensboro, Kentucky, 142 3. Leandro Mercado, Cordoba, Argentina, 131 4. Jake Gagne, Ramona, California, 123 5. Tomas Puerta, Medellin, Colombia, 86 6. Austin DeHaven, Los Angeles, California, 76 7. Joey Pascarella, Vacaville, California, 75 8. Emerson Connor, Burlington, Ontario, Canada, 60 9. Bryce Prince, Bakersfield, California, 50 10. Huntley Nash, Marietta, Georgia, 42 More, from a press release issued by Indianapolis Motor Speedway: RED BULL INDIANAPOLIS GP PRESS CONFERENCE Red Bull AMA U.S. Rookies Cup Jake Gagne, Hayden Gillim, Austin DeHaven Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008 MODERATOR: Good afternoon, everybody. We just finished up our first race here at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The winner was No. 32, Jake Gagne. Let’s start off with Austin DeHaven, who finished third in today’s race. Austin, if you could tell us a little bit about how it went for you out there today. AUSTIN DeHAVEN: I got a really great start, and it just kept getting better from there. I just put my head down and kept moving forward and tried to see if I could catch up to get a podium. If this would be the only race I could get a podium, this would be the one. I just pushed as hard as I could, just kept moving forward and did the best I could, and did better enough or whatever. I ended up getting a podium and I was really excited and happy about that. MODERATOR: Austin is from Los Angeles, California, everyone. He had a good race at Infineon earlier this year, but he had to be a little bit surprised when you came across the line in the third place because Emerson had crashed out. Tell us a little bit about what you thought, what you were feeling about when you got the podium spot. DeHAVEN: It was weird because like six laps before with 10 laps to go, I saw on the board I was eighth. I thought I don’t know if I’m going to be able to make it up. All I saw was Corey fall, and then I thought there goes seven. Then I passed Squirrel and I was sixth. Then I passed Tomy and I was five, and Emerson, and then somebody else crashed and I don’t know who it was. I tried to pick it off and keep my head down and keep going forward to get the podium that I got. MODERATOR: I noticed your dad was pretty emotional after the race, and you talked to your mom on the phone, too. Tell us about that a little if you could. DeHAVEN: It was great because my mom doesn’t really get to make it out to too many races because of work and all that. So it was really good to call her because she gets excited, too. Even though she wasn’t here, I greatly appreciate her being concerned and everything this weekend. MODERATOR: Congratulations on your podium finish here. Thank you for putting on a good show today. DeHAVEN: Thank you very much. MODERATOR: In second place, we have Hayden Gillim of Owensboro, Kentucky, who fought for the win, led a lot of the laps and came up short. Tell us a little about the race, Hayden. HAYDEN GILLIM: I got a good start and was second going into the first corner, and then Huntley Nash passed me going into the second corner. Then he ended up messing up and I got up to second; then worked my way past Tomy, and then I tried to put my head down and get a little bit of a gap. I pushed as hard as I could, but Jake was going a little faster than me. Once he passed me, I tried to push as hard as I could to keep up. He was running a really good race. I caught back up to him the next to last lap and in the last lap we traded positions. And then on the front straightaway he got a better drive than me and I tried to draft him, just I didn’t have enough. MODERATOR: You two had a good battle at Atlanta. This race was very similar to that race in the fact that he caught you, you tried to catch up again and he kind of got away. Can you talk about that a little bit? GILLIM: Yeah. It’s kind of weird that that happened two races in a row, but I feel a lot better about this race because I was a lot closer to him. I feel that we can do pretty good tomorrow in the Riders Cup Race and hopefully we can do exactly the same, maybe switch up the positions a little bit, and hopefully get the Riders Cup. MODERATOR: Congratulations. You were feeling a little bit ill after the race. Can you talk about that a little bit? Let’s go with that. GILLIM: J.D. Beach was feeling sick, and I’ve been staying with him. He, I guess, gave me something. I was feeling clogged up before the race and once I got off the bike, I was a little dehydrated and it was really bad, I was really clogged up and I couldn’t stand for very long. I just got back to the rookies tents and tried to cool off and get some fluids in me, and I’m feeling a lot better now. MODERATOR: Thanks for showing up and good luck tomorrow in the Riders Cup Race. GILLIM: Thank you. MODERATOR: Jake Gagne of Ramona, California, has two wins in a row. He managed to win the first race here at Indianapolis. Tell us about it, Jake. JACOB GAGNE: It was pretty good. I didn’t get off to the best start, but I started front row and dropped back quite a bit. Then I just and tried to take lap by lap and position by position and try to catch up to 69, Gillim, as fast as I could, because I knew he was getting away. And I knew if I couldn’t get up to him, he was riding a really good pace, and he would pull me. I put my head down and tried to go as fast as I could. MODERATOR: You said he had a pretty good charge, but you were basically next to last at one point; is that correct? GAGNE: Yeah, my start was pretty bad. MODERATOR: You had a near moment out there coming back onto the straight. Looked like you almost high-sided to the moon. Tell us about that. GAGNE: Yeah, I just got off and just got on the gas a little early, I think. It spun out and then I high-sided myself. I thought I was going down for sure but I kind of left the gas on, laid back on the tank and it hurt pretty bad but I just kept my head down and had to fight through it. MODERATOR: Go over the pass for the lead one more time. GAGNE: I just kind of got in his draft and then just pulled out. Then kind of got inside of him. MODERATOR: You do pretty good in the speed traps and in the long straightaway courses it seems like. What’s the key to doing that? GAGNE: Mostly just your tuck, you know, and carrying as much speed and using as little brake as you can to try to carry all the momentum; that’s really where it is on 125. You can’t slow down too much. MODERATOR: You’re starting tomorrow’s Riders Cup Race from the second row. Can you do it again? Can you run through the field and maybe win another one this weekend? GAGNE: That would be awesome. I’m just hoping all the U.S. team can put it up there up front and bring home the Cup. MODERATOR: Thanks a lot, Jake. You guys will have a chance to see these young men racing tomorrow in the Riders Cup Race. Thanks a lot. Let’s have some questions here. Q: Can you talk about your cousin, Nicky, and how he has influenced your riding and gotten you into what he does, you know, how he’s an inspiration to you? GILLIM: Well, whenever I was 6 years old, me and my brothers were wanting to race. On Christmas, his dad and my grandpa got us our first motorcycles. We went out and rode in the snow and just played around. We looked up to him and Roger and Tommy our whole racing career. We’re just wanting to get to where he’s at at some point in our lives, and hopefully we can do as good as he’s done in his years of racing. Q: This is you guys’ first chance to ride with the MotoGP Rookies this weekend. It seems like the times are fairly close. Have you been able to learn anything from them, or do they do anything different from you guys, in general, or is it just more or less like riding with another one of the AMA riders? GILLIM: It’s not really that different. We all do pretty much everything the same, just they’re faster in some parts of the tracks than we are, and we’re faster in some part of the track than they are. DeHAVEN: It seems like mainly the slower corners, coming out of them they have a little more torque than us, so I think that’s where they make up most of the time in the straightaway. GAGNE: We’re all just kids and all on the same bike. We’ve all just got to hang it out and hopefully it goes good. MODERATOR: Any more questions? Q: Jake, this is your first year of road racing, correct? GAGNE: Yes. Q: Do you feel like a road racer yet? GAGNE: Yeah, I’ve had this great team and all these great tracks, I pretty much know all I can. And every time I go out there just try to learn more and more. The more experience you get, the faster you’re going to get. So I just keep trying to learn as much as I can. Q: The big moment you had, do you think that you saved the bike with skill or with luck? GAGNE: I don’t really know. Probably just mostly luck. What I learned from motocross when that happens, just don’t let off the gas and that’s pretty much what I did. So I don’t really know. I’m just happy it went well for me. Q: And, Austin, you said more torque for the European bikes? What’s that about? DeHAVEN: No, I meant the MotoGP bikes. Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying. But the MotoGP bikes, the European bikes, they seem the same. So I think it will be pretty good. They just have really good tucks, so it’s going to be hard to stay in their draft. Q: And, Gillim, are you going to get in trouble for not wearing a hat in the program? GILLIM: I don’t really know. I kind of rushed out of the Rookies tent. I wasn’t feeling too good and wasn’t really thinking. I kind of felt bad that I wasn’t wearing the hat. Q: So what could be the penalty? MODERATOR: No demerits. We appreciate Hayden coming out. He didn’t feel good, he was feeling ill after the race; and hat or no hat, we’re glad he’s here. Any more questions, guys? Thanks a lot. We appreciate you coming out. More, from a press release issued by Red Bull: Red Bull Riders Cup – Indianapolis Free Practice – September 13th MotoGP Rookies enjoy free time. The Red Bull MotoGP Rookies benefited from a free practice session as they circulated behind Saturday’s AMA U.S. Rookies Cup race so that all the riders will go into Sunday’s Red Bull Riders Cup race with equal track time. “Wow, it’s hot today,” said Matthew Hoyle. “I’ve never felt anything like it. So humid. But it was worth it, I’m a lot happier going into tomorrow’s race after that. The track’s a lot of fun but slippery in places. I felt fast so I’m looking forward to a good race,” concluded the 17 year old Briton. Fastest of the MotoGP Rookies in the non qualifying session was Mathew Scholtz who already has pole thanks to Friday’s qualifying. With a time of 1m 56.232 the 16 year old South African was ahead of 17 year old Spaniard Luis Salom and Hoyle. Fastest of all was AMA U.S. race winner Jake Gagne, the 15 old American established the Rookies lap record at Indianapolis with a final lap of 1m 55.959 as he seized the lead from 13 year old fellow countryman Hayden Gillim. After Friday’s three practice session were all very much effected by rain Friday’s track time was in brilliant sunshine. However rain is expected for Sunday and the Riders Cup race between the 10 best from each of the MotoGP and AMA U.S. Cups. The race starts at 10:25am, before the 3 Grand Prix classes. More, from another press release issued by Red Bull: Double Time For Jake Gagne, Winner Of The Red Bull AMA U.S. Rookies Cup Race at Indianapolis Two-Time Race Winner Will Compete In The Red Bull Riders Cup On Sunday Indianapolis, In. (September 13, 2008) — Jake Gagne of Ramona, Calif., won the Red Bull AMA U.S. Rookies Cup race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday. Gagne won his second event in a row in the series for 13-to-16 year-old racers from North and South America, coming out on top in another exciting duel with Hayden Gillim of Owensboro, Ky. The two reprised their Road Atlanta battle and took the race down to the last lap once again as both continuously bettered the fastest lap of the race until the very end. Both Rookies led the 16-lap race, but Gillim had taken the point shortly after Gagne’s near highside on lap 12. As the final lap around the 2.6-mile circuit began, Gillim led. But Gagne found his way past and the Californian took his second victory in a row by just 0.204 seconds. “It was really cool to win another race,” said Jake. “Hayden and I had a good battle again and it felt like the Atlanta race all over again. I felt comfortable with the lap times but then I nearly crashed coming onto the straight. I just kept the gas on and I ended up saving it. The pace was hot at the end of the race and I’m really pleased to get the victory again.” Gagne got a poor start but overcame the odds to get the win. “I think I was next-to-last at the beginning,” said the 15-year-old Gagne. Gillim made it tough for his new rival, even though he was ill during and after the race. The youngest Rookie, at 13 years old, nearly added to his two wins this season with a valiant effort. “I caught back up to him and we traded positions,” said Gillim of the late race drama. Hayden tried to make a pass at the flag but came up short. “He got a better drive than me and for me it just wasn’t enough.” 14-year-old Austin DeHaven earned a podium finish with his third place ride. DeHaven charged to the podium with his fantastic race that saw him show both speed and consistency. “I put my head down and tried to see if I could get a podium,” said DeHaven, of Los Angeles, Calif. “Things went my way and the hard work paid off today.” Tomas Puerta took fourth place despite an injured hand. The Colombian rider’s American base is Indianapolis and he put on a good show on Saturday. “It was tough for me to work the clutch but I wanted to do well,” said Puerta. “I plan on racing tomorrow in the Rider’s Cup event, too.” Jacob Morman earned his best result yet with a fifth place finish. “The Squirrel” showed great speed around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. “It was a lot of fun,” he said. Morman topped championship contender Leandro Mercado of Argentina, who remounted after a crash to earn sixth position, while Joey Pascarella of Vacaville, Calif., was seventh after jumping the start from the front row and receiving a ride-through penalty. Canada’s Emerson Connor took eighth despite a crash. Connor spent most of the race in third position. Bryce Prince of Bakersfield, Calif., and Travis Wyman of Macedon, N.Y., rounded out the top ten. Championship leader Benny Solis did not finish the race but will still retain the series points lead with just the season finale at Laguna Seca to go in two weeks’ time. Sunday will see the Red Bull AMA U.S. Rookies take on the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies in the Red Bull Riders Cup, a select team event for the top ten riders from each series. Up for grabs is a beautiful trophy awarded to the winning squad. Red Bull AMA U.S. Rookies Cup Results From Indianapolis. 1. Jake Gagne (USA) 2. Hayden Gillim (USA) 3. Austin DeHaven (USA) 4. Tomas Puerta (COL) 5. Jake Morman (USA) 6. Leandro Mercado (ARG) 7. Joey Pascarella (USA) 8. Emerson Connor (CAN) 9. Bryce Prince (USA) 10. Travis Wyman (USA) 11. Austin Medrano (USA) 12. Jake Cunningham (USA) 13. Jesse Stevens (USA) 14. Frankie Lee Gillim (USA) 15. Corey Rech (USA) 16. Corey Alexander (USA) 17. Otavio Lucchini (BRA) 18. Garet Tomlinson (USA) 19. Cameron Gish (USA) 20. Benny Solis (USA) 21. Huntley Nash (USA) Red Bull AMA U.S. Rookies Cup Points (after nine races) 1. 35 Benny Solis, North Hollywood, California 156 points 2. 69 Hayden Gillim, Owensboro, Kentucky 142 3. 36 Leandro Mercado, Cordoba, Argentina 131 4. 32 Jake Gagne, Ramona, California 123 5. 12 Tomas Puerta, Medellin, Colombia 86 6. 56 Austin DeHaven, Los Angeles, California 76 7. 25 Joey Pascarella, Vacaville, California 75 8. 50 Emerson Connor, Burlington, Ontario 60 9. 74 Bryce Prince, Bakersfield, California 50 10. 75 Huntley Nash, Marietta, Georgia 42 11. 26 Toriano Wilson, St. Davids, Bermuda 40 12. 66 Jake Morman, Loganville, Georgia 38 13. 34 Corey Rech, Liverpool, New York 37 14. 31 Cameron Gish, Shingle Springs, California 35 15. 13 Jesse Stevens, Lawrenceville, Georgia 31 16. 7 Austin Medrano, Mustang, Oklahoma 31 17. 95 Frankie Lee Gillim, Owensboro, Kentucky 28 18. 94 Jacob Cunningham, Kimberly, Wisconsin 28 19. 3 Travis Wyman, Macedon, New York 22 20. 23 Corey Alexander, Ossining, New York 18 21. 11 Luciano Ribodino San Francisco, Cordoba, Argentina 6 22. 22 Garet Tomlinson, Aledo, Texas 4 23. 82 Otavio Lucchini, Jundiai, SP, Brazil 1