AMA Pro National Guard American Superbike Championship Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida March 5, 2010 Provisional Race Two Results (2.9-mile course, all on Dunlop tires): 1. Jake Zemke (Suz GSX-R1000), 15 laps 2. Tommy Hayden (Suz GSX-R1000), -0.009 second 3. Ben Bostrom (Yam YZF-R1), -0.081 4. Aaron Yates (Suz GSX-R1000), -0.212 5. Larry Pegram (Duc 1098R), -0.858 6. Josh Hayes (Yam YZF-R1), -1.838 seconds 7. Blake Young (Suz GSX-R1000), -22.383, ran off track twice 8. Brett McCormick (Suz GSX-R1000), -29.235 9. David Anthony (Suz GSX-R1000), -34.124 10. Taylor Knapp (Suz GSX-R1000), -34.404 11. Jeffrey Tigert (Hon CBR1000RR), -46.244 12. Chris Ulrich (Suz GSX-R1000), -46.486, ran off track 13. Shane Narbonne (Suz GSX-R1000), -48.176 14. Eric Haugo (Suz GSX-R1000), -78.778 15. Scott Jensen (Suz GSX-R1000), -78.890 16. Chris Clark (Yam YZF-R1), -79.303 17. Johnny Rock Page (Suz GSX-R1000), -80.553 18. Trent Gibson (Suz GSX-R1000), -86.921 19. Eric Pinson (BMW S1000 RR), -88.530 20. Skip Salenius (Suz GSX-R1000), -110.336 21. John Hopkins (Suz GSX-R1000), -9 laps, DNF, mechanical 22. Shawn Higbee (Duc 1098R), -13 laps, DNF, crash 23. Barrett Long (Duc 1098R), -14 laps, DNF, mechanical Championship Point Standings: 1. Zemke, 62 points 2. Hayden, 50 3. TIE, Pegram/Yates, 37 5. Young, 30 6. Knapp, 25 7. TIE, Bostrom/Ulrich, 24 9. Hayes, 23 10. Narbonne, 20 11. Haugo, 16 12. Clark, 15 13. McCormick, 14 14. Higbee, 13 15. TIE, Anthony/Tigert, 12 17. TIE, Long/Page, 11 19. TIE, Pinson/Gibson, 8 21. Jensen, 6 22. Salenius, 5 23. Hopkins, 0 More, from a press release issued by The Creative Works: MICHAEL JORDAN MOTORSPORTS DOMINATES 2010 DAYTONA SUPERBIKE National Guard Jordan Suzuki’s Jake Zemke Sweeps Daytona Superbike Doubleheader DAYTONA BEACH, FL (March 5, 2010) Michael Jordan Motorsports (MJM) has a lot to celebrate this week as National Guard Jordan Suzuki’s Jake Zemke pulled off another victory, completing the sweep of the opening Superbike doubleheader and owning the points lead in the 2010 AMA Pro National Guard American Superbike Championship. National Guard Jordan Suzuki’s Jake Zemke took up where he left off yesterday with only a couple of minor exceptions. In today’s race, Zemke led 9 of 15 laps and was in second place behind fellow Suzuki rider, Tommy Hayden, on the last lap coming out of the chicane. Zemke ended up catching Hayden at the line for a scant margin of victory of .009 seconds. Jordan Suzuki’s Aaron Yates duped his first race result as well, finishing only .212 seconds behind Zemke in fourth place. “I think for everybody here, when you’re sitting at home all winter long, this is what you’re thinking about coming out of here with two wins,” Zemke said. “For that to actually happen, it’s not real often that all your plans come the way you imagine them in your head. It was the closest race I’ve ever been in. I was riding around on the cool-off lap and looking at all the towers and the numbers. I was like, well, I’m on top now but when are they going to change it? I didn’t celebrate until I got into Victory Lane. My crew did an awesome job once again. To be able to come into Daytona and be able to pull this off it’s their first Superbike win and we just did it back-to-back. For the team, for the sponsors, it’s their first win as well and I’m just happy to be in this position.” Jordan Suzuki’s Aaron Yates was optimistic about his two fourth place finishes, especially considering the margin between him and fellow MJM teammate Zemke. “Today I got the hole-shot and tipped it in and went across the paint and the thing lit up and spun and got a little crazy on me,” said Yates. “I couldn’t pass anybody on the banking and everybody else was passing me there. We were real close to the winner there, within a second or a half a second to the winner. You never know what’s going to happen here with the draft, but we’ll take it on to the next track and the Jordan Suzuki this year is going to be real strong so I’m looking forward to getting to some tracks with some turns.” The 2010 Michael Jordan Motorsports team’s next event will be at the Suzuki Superbike Challenge at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA on March 26-28, 2010. More, from a press release issued by Team M4 Monster Energy Suzuki: HARD LUCK WEEKEND FOR TEAM M4 MONSTER ENERGY SUZUKI AT DAYTONA Despite showing plenty of promise and speed during the weekend, Team M4 Monster Energy Suzuki left the 2010 AMA Pro Road Racing season opener at Daytona International Speedway disappointed. The squad was unable to capitalize on their potential as both John Hopkins’ and Martin Cardenas’ bids for victory ended early on Friday. Hopkins retired from the 15-lap AMA Pro American Superbike final with a bike issue while working lap 6 of 15 after demonstrating the pace to run up front on his GSX-R1000. Unfortunately, the team’s hopes for redemption under the lights in the 69th running of the Daytona 200 were dashed early as well, as Cardenas crashed out of the lead entering the race’s second corner in the tricky, cool conditions. Cardenas, who missed taking the pole aboard his GSX-R600 by just 0.002 seconds on Thursday evening, escaped his opening lap spill unscathed and eager to get his Daytona SportBike title campaign back on track the next out. Former MotoGP ace Hopkins’ weekend was far from the manner in which he hoped his return to AMA Pro Road Racing competition would play out, but he remains confident in the ability of himself and his team to turn things around quickly. Hopkins and the team had vastly improved the handling on the team’s GSX-R1000 for the weekend’s second race. Commenting on Friday’s developments, Hopkins said, “We had a little crash this morning but that was my fault. I was on cold tires and we were fighting the set-up and I just tried to make it work when it wasn’t really right. We had been in and out of the pits and there were only around five minutes left and I just lost the front.” After the crash, the team changed to a different setting on the bike for the race. “We got off the line and I was feeling it out and it was going pretty good. I started to get comfortable and went like 1.6 seconds faster than we have been all week before we encountered an issue. “If I didn’t have bad luck, I wouldn’t have had any at all this weekend,” Hopkins joked. “Hey, it is what it is but everything happens for a reason and we’ll just make sure we keep doing our jobs. We’ll go to Fontana and see what we can do there. We’re determined to have success.” Team M4 Monster Energy Suzuki will be back in action at Round 2 of the 2010 AMA Pro Road Racing season at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA on March 26-28.