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It is 8:40 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, the track is dry and the second practice sesson of the day, for Superbikes, is on track at Infineon Raceway.

The skies are partly cloudy.

Rich Oliver was fastest in the first session, for 250cc GP machines.

The AMA Pro Racing timing & scoring system is up and running but is double-scoring several riders. For example, Ben Spies is currently shown on T&S monitors as being 1st and 2nd-fastest, Miguel Duhamel is shown as being 6th and 7th-fastest, and Aaron Yates is shown as being 8th and 9th-fastest.

Update: The session was red-flagged at 8:46 a.m. due to a crash, with Andy Deatherage shown on monitors as being the fastest rider, with a 43.342-second lap. Eric Bostrom was shown as 2nd-fastest at 1:39.308.

Update: Bikes are back on track at 8:50 a.m., with 15 minutes left in the session.
Update: At 8:58, Deatherage still tops the timing & scoring monitors at Infineon, followed by Rob Christman, Mladin, Yates, Bostrom, Spies, Rapp, Duhamel, Kurtis Roberts at 9th and 10th fastest, Pegram, Acree, Chandler, Caylor and Pridmore.

At 9:00 a.m., riders are filing back into the pits with a light sprinkle falling on parts of the course.

At 9:04, T&S is showing Christman fastest followed by Mladin at 1:38.806, the fastest legitimate time; others include Pegram, Yates at 4th and 5th fastest, Bostrom, Spies, Rapp, Duhamel, Roberts at 9th and 10th fastest, Acree, Chandler, Howard, Caylor and Pridmore.

At 9:10, the Superbike session was restarted with about five minutes remaining on the clock.

Fastest Times At The End Of The Superbike Session
1. Mat Mladin, 1:38.397
2. Larry Pegram, 1:39.099
3. Aaron Yates, 1:39.154
4. Eric Bostrom, 1:39.219
5. Ben Spies, 1:39.327
6. Steve Rapp, 1:39.529

As the Supersport bikes went on track, the trend of double-scoring riders continued on the timing & scoring monitors, with several riders appearing multiple times in the order.