Cameron Beaubier, Jake Lewis, Kyle Wyman and Blake Young were the fastest riders in their respective classes during Day One of an official two-day AMA Pro Road Racing test at Homestead-Miami Speedway, in Homestead, Florida. Homestead-Miami Speedway, a venue that has not been on the AMA Pro schedule since 1996, will host round 10 of the 11-round series, the Big Kahuna Miami, on September 21-23. Yoshimura Racing Suzuki’s Young led the National Guard Superbike class by lapping the 2.2-mile infield road course on his GSX-R1000 in just 1:21.987, which was well under Geoff May’s official motorcycle lap record of 1:23.131. “I was actually quite surprised with how much grip the track has,” Young told Roadracingworld.com Tuesday. “That was the big thing I noticed this morning was the grip, and as the conditions kind of changed the grip stayed fairly decent. Usually, if you’ve got a track with good grip in the morning it falls off in afternoon. Or if it’s not real good in the morning it usually comes around in the afternoon. This place is pretty consistently throughout the day.” Beaubier led the GoPro Daytona SportBike class with a time of 1:24.887 on his Y.E.S./Graves Yamaha YZF-R6. Beaubier and his interim teammate Tommy Hayden were the only two riders at the test to use U.K.-made Dunlop N-Tec rear tires, while all other Daytona SportBike, SuperSport and XR1200 riders were only provided with U.S.-made N-Tec D211 GP-A spec tires. When asked if he was testing some new tires for Dunlop, Beaubier said, “To tell you the truth I’m not really sure. I’m just doing whatever the team is having me doing. So I don’t know. “We’re just trying some stuff with suspension and fuel mapping, and it went good. I like the track. It’s a little dangerous in a couple of spots, but it’s a fun track. I like the last section and flicking the bike around. It’s pretty cool.” The leader in the Motorcycle-Superstore.com SuperSport class was Riders Discount Vesrah Suzuki’s Jake Lewis, who did a 1:27.020 on his GSX-R600. Lewis just raced at Homestead-Miami Speedway in December 2011 and was able to get straight to work on refining his setup. “I ended up with the fastest time and got some pretty good track time and got things dialed in, so it was pretty good,” Lewis told Roadracingworld.com. Kyle Wyman, the winner of the season-opening Vance & Hines XR1200 race March 16 at Daytona International Speedway, was the fastest in his class with a time of 1:33.983 on his Riders Discount/Vesrah/Kuryakyn-backed Harley-Davidson. AMA Pro Road Racing Test Homestead-Miami Speedway Homestead, Florida March 20, 2012 Day One Best Combined Results (all on Dunlop tires): National Guard Superbike: 1. Blake Young (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:21.987 2. Roger Hayden (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:22.132 3. Ben Bostrom (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:22.159 4. Josh Hayes (Yam YZF-R1), 1:22.564 5. Danny Eslick (EBR 1190RS), 1:23.897 6. Chris Clark (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:23.010 7. Josh Herrin (Yam YZF-R1), 1:23.027 8. Larry Pegram (BMW S1000RR), 1:23.141 9. Geoff May (EBR 1190RS), 1:23.243 10. Robertino Pietri (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:23.452 11. Stefan Nebel (KTM RC8R), 1:23.780 12. Chris Fillmore (KTM RC8R), 1:23.856 13. Chris Ulrich (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:23.940 14. David Anthony (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:24.113 15. Jake Zemke (EBR 1190RS), 1:24.115 16. Jordan Burgess (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:24.739 17. Sean Dwyer (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:25.668 18. Trent Gibson (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:26.073 19. Johnny Rock Page (Suz GSX-R1000), 1:28.596 GoPro Daytona SportBike: 1. Cameron Beaubier (Yam YZF-R6), 1:24.887, UK-made N-Tec tires 2. Martin Cardenas (Suz GSX-R600), 1:25.637, US-made spec tires 3. Tommy Hayden (Yam YZF-R6), 1:25.786, UK-made N-Tec tires 4. Dane Westby (Suz GSX-R600), 1:26.116, US-made spec tires 5. Jake Gagne (Yam YZF-R6), 1:26.333, US-made spec tires 6. Jason DiSalvo (Tri Daytona 675R), 1:26.525, US-made spec tires 7. Benny Solis (Suz GSX-R600), 1:26.639, US-made spec tires 8. Cory West (Suz GSX-R600), 1:26.946, US-made spec tires 9. Austin DeHaven (Yam YZF-R6), 1:27.070, US-made spec tires 10. J.D. Beach (Yam YZF-R6), 1:27.197, US-made spec tires 11. Huntley Nash (Yam YZF-R6), 1:27.532, US-made spec tires 12. Paul Allison (Yam YZF-R6), 1:27.752, US-made spec tires 13. David Gaviria (Yam YZF-R6), 1:27.788, US-made spec tires 14. Fernando Amantini (Kaw ZX-6R), 1:27.939, US-made spec tires 15. Travis Wyman (Suz GSX-R600), 1:28.333, US-made spec tires 16. Bobby Fong (Yam YZF-R6), 1:29.447, US-made spec tires 17. Bryce Prince (Yam YZF-R6), 1:30.157, US-made spec tires 18. Melissa Paris (Yam YZF-R6), 1:32.607, US-made spec tires 19. Sam Rozynski (Yam YZF-R6), 1:33.209, US-made spec tires Motorcycle-Superstore.com SuperSport: 1. Jake Lewis (Suz GSX-R600), 1:27.020 2. James Rispoli (Suz GSX-R600), 1:27.082 3. Corey Alexander (Suz GSX-R600), 1:27.417 4. Elena Myers (Suz GSX-R600), 1:27.542 5. Stefano Mesa (Yam YZF-R6), 1:27.580 6. Hayden Gillim (Yam YZF-R6), 1:27.621 7. Travis Oghe (Yam YZF-R6), 1:27.938 8. Tomas Puerta (Yam YZF-R6), 1:28.554 9. Rocco Horvath (Yam YZF-R6), 1:29.091 10. Cody Wyman (Suz GSX-R600), 1:29.872 11. Lucas Huff (Yam YZF-R6), 1:31.298 12. Nadr Riad (Yam YZF-R6), 1:31.695 13. Chris Hamilton (Yam YZF-R6), no time recorded 14. Christian Cronin (Yam YZF-R6), no time recorded Vance & Hines XR1200 (all on Harley-Davidson XR1200s): 1. Kyle Wyman, 1:33.983 2. Travis Wyman, 1:35.735 3. Michael Corbino, 1:36.272 4. Tyler O’Hara, 1:37.408 5. Darren James, 1:38.089 6. Jeremiah Johnson, 1:42.499 7. Josh Chisum, no time recorded 8. Michael Barnes, no time recorded More, from a press release issued by AMA Pro Racing: HOMESTEAD, Fla. (March 20, 2012) – Yoshimura Suzuki’s Blake Young led the first day of AMA Pro Road Racing’s two-day official series test at Homestead-Miami Speedway with a blazing lap time of 1:21.987 around the 2.21-mile road course. Young continually improved his lap time session after session, setting his fastest time in the fourth session of the day. “It was pretty good; good conditions, good grip,” said Young, who earned his 11th career AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike victory with his Race 2 win at Daytona International Speedway last weekend. “Surprisingly a lot of grip out there. I’m hoping that when we come back for the race it will be like this. It feels good to be back on the bike this quick after Daytona. Having the first race out of the way always relieves some pressure. It’s good that we can come down here and do a little bit of testing to work on some things.” This week’s two-day test at Homestead-Miami Speedway, which is open to the general public at no cost, resumes tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. to give teams and riders the opportunity to break in and tune their machines on a circuit that hasn’t been on the AMA Pro Road Racing calendar since 1996. The Series will return for South Florida’s biggest motorcycle event in decades, the Big Kahuna Miami, an M1 PowerSports-promoted event scheduled for September 21-23, 2012. Tickets for this fall’s Big Kahuna Miami can be purchased at http://www.m1powersports.com/big-kahuna-miami/. Quotes from Day 1: Josh Hayes (No. 1 Monster Energy Graves Yamaha YZF-R1) – “I rode here in 1999 and in 2001, when I rode for John Ulrich, but I think the track has changed a little bit because the banking is different than when I rode it last. I can honestly tell you I didn’t remember too much of it; when I thought of the last turn I thought of Loudon; when I thought of the turn onto the back straight I think I was really thinking of Phoenix; and turn one I think I was thinking of Texas World Speedway. You know, it was like trying to put all of the pieces together as to where I really was. It felt like it was totally new to me, I don’t remember much about it. Things are going okay, we made some progress. As we’re making progress, those guys are moving forward too. We have a little bit of catching up to do but at some point they’re going to stall and hopefully we’ll just keep going until we catch up to them. All in all, I can’t complain.” Roger Hayden (No. 54 National Guard Jordan Suzuki GSX-R1000) – “It was pretty good, we got going a little better this afternoon. I got to overlay some data of Ben [Bostrom]’s and just figured out where I was struggling at. It was just a little bit everywhere. I’m pretty happy, we’re right on pace with the top few guys and I was clicking them off pretty good there at the end. Not a bad day of testing, hopefully tomorrow we can improve a little bit more, just keep getting the bike better, keep getting myself better, because everybody is riding pretty hard.” Danny Eslick (No. 69 Team Hero EBR1190S) – “It’s good man, this is my first time to Homestead. After a little bit of an up-and-down weekend at Daytona it’s just nice to come here and relax and really do some testing, try to get one with the bike and with the team and everybody. It’s kind of a new group of people working together. We just need to find where we all gel and get along, and make the bike work good. We definitely made some progress today, put in a good time here in the last session. We’ll sleep on it tonight and hopefully knock another second off of it tomorrow. I’m comfortable riding the bike, just getting the right setup is the biggest thing right now. We found a few things that have given me the traction that I need. That’s been the biggest thing: more horsepower, less traction, and just trying to find that extra grip.” Chris Clark (No. 6 Yoshimura Racing Suzuki GSX-R1000) – “This is my first time here on the race bike, so we’re trying to find a good setup for when we come back. We wanted to try both tires that last session and we were able to put in pretty decent times with both of them so we’re really happy. We were out there by ourselves so that makes it better. Maybe tomorrow we’ll get a little tow and can get down to those 1:22’s. I would be happy with a 1:22.5, it’d be a great way to end the weekend and have some confidence coming back here.” Stefan Nebel (No. 12 KTM/HMC Racing KTM RC8R) – “I’ve been getting to know the track well, and how it has to be ridden, because it’s different than in Europe. Also, the tires are different than in Europe, so I have to learn how to react differently to it all. At the end, it’s been a good result and I’m pretty happy. This weather is fantastic. For the last five months I’ve only seen rain or snow, and we have an average temperature of five degrees [Celsius]. That’s not something that you need for a long time, especially when you want to ride a motorcycle or ride a bike. I’m really enjoying the sight of the palm trees, the sunny track and starting to sweat again, it’s a good feeling.” Martin Cardenas (No. 36 GEICO Suzuki GSX-R600) – “It went pretty good. I raced here in 2007 so I know the track. We made some small adjustments to the bike that are working pretty good. Hopefully we can continue in that direction tomorrow.” Cameron Beaubier (No. 6 Y.E.S./Graves Yamaha YZF-R6) – “We are just trying to get the suspension dialed in for when we come back for the race. My bike worked really well all day. The track is pretty cool, it flows really well and it was a lot of fun today. I really like the last section, the right-left, because you just throw the bike around and then drive it out, it’s pretty cool.” Tommy Hayden (No. 8 Y.E.S./Graves Yamaha YZF-R6) – “The day went pretty well, I was happy with it. It nice to get out there and just get a little more relaxed, start trying to get used to a 600 a little bit and get used to the team a little more. We addressed a few small things to get me a little more comfortable. We steadily chipped away at everything today, chipped away at the lap time a little bit. I’m definitely a little more competitive than I was at Daytona. I’m feeling pretty good, I had a fun day. This is a pretty cool track, I hadn’t really ridden here before. I enjoyed myself.” 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.