AMA Pro National Guard American Superbike Presented by Parts Unlimited Barber Motorsports Park Birmingham, Alabama May 2, 2009 Provisional Race Results (dry conditions, all on Dunlop tires): 1. Mat Mladin (Suz GSX-R1000K9), 21 laps 2. Blake Young (Suz GSX-R1000K9), -1.928 seconds 3. Ben Bostrom (Yam YZF-R1), -2.179 4. Tommy Hayden (Suz GSX-R1000K9), -2.324 5. Josh Hayes (Yam YZF-R1), -6.186 6. Larry Pegram (Duc 1098R), -7.638 7. Geoff May (Suz GSX-R1000K9), -8.032 8. Jake Holden (Hon CBR1000RR), -30.402 9. Taylor Knapp (Suz GSX-R1000K8), -32.860 10. Aaron Yates (Suz GSX-R1000K9), -32.979, jump start/ride-through penalty 11. David Anthony (Suz GSX-R1000K8), -33.042 12. Michael Laverty (Suz GSX-R1000K8), -46.135 13. Ryan Elleby (Suz GSX-R1000K8), -46.917 14. Chris Ulrich (Suz GSX-R1000K9), -48.341 15. Barrett Long (Duc 1098R), -81.179 16. Hawk Mazzotta (Suz GSX-R1000), -83.938 17. Aaron Gobert (Hon CBR1000RR), -88.949 18. Skip Salenius (Suz GSX-R1000K8), -1 lap 19. Eric Haugo (Suz GSX-R1000K8), -1 lap, 0.755 second 20. Shawn Higbee (Buell 1125R), -1 lap, 1.023 seconds 21. Mark Crozier (Suz GSX-R1000K8), -1 lap, 15.325 22. Johnny Rock Page (Yam YZF-R1), -1 lap, 43.821 23. Shane Narbonne (Suz GSX-R1000K8), -1 lap, 59.537 24. Walt Sipp (Buell 1125R), -2 laps 25. Kevin Boisvert (Suz GSX-R1000K8), -2 laps, 0.881 second 26. Scott Jensen (Suz GSX-R1000), DNF Championship Point Standings (after 6 of 21 races): 1. Mladin, 189 points 2. Hayden, 130 3. Young, 114 4. May, 106 5. Hayes, 93 6. Bostrom, 92 7. Pegram, 79 8. Yates, 73 9. Anthony, 58 10. Knapp, 56 11. Holden, 52 12. Gobert, 47 13. Ulrich, 43 14. Mazzotta, 42 15. Jensen, 31 16. Neil Hodgson, 25 17. Long, 22 18. TIE, Laverty/Elleby, 21 20. Jeff Tigert, 14 More, from a press release issued by American Suzuki: Rockstar Makita Suzuki’s Mladin, Young First & Second at Barber Superbike Race Teammate Hayden fourth in weekend’s first Superbike race Round 4 AMA Superbike Series, Race I Birmingham, Alabama Barber Motorsports Park May 1-3, 2009 Rockstar Makita Suzuki’s Mat Mladin put the 2009 GSX-R1000 through its first-ever race paces at Birmingham’s Barber Motorsports Park on Saturday afternoon and came away with the win. Although this victory was a first for the brand-new ’09 model, it was Mladin’s 78th career AMA Superbike victory and Suzuki’s 52nd consecutive AMA Superbike victory. Mladin started from pole position his 59th pole position, actually and took the lead on the sixth lap and never looked back. The six-time AMA Superbike Champion led the remainder of the laps to the checkered flag. Rockstar Makita Suzuki teammates Blake Young and Tommy Hayden followed Mladin home in second and fourth positions, respectively. Mat Mladin: “At the start of the race, the boys were having a bit of a go and I was trying to get a feel for the new 2009 Suzuki with a full tank of gas and a few laps in. I had a bit of a look at what the other guys were doing and made my way through. I just tried to keep it solid, but tried not to wear too much stuff out, cause we really didn’t know what the bike was capable of doing or what it was going to do to the tires. This motorcycle, as far as a GSX-R1000 goes, is very, very different to any other one we’ve ever had. It’s a very different motorbike. We have some work to do to try and figure out a few things. We didn’t want to go too crazy today. We were riding hard, but we needed to keep it within a certain envelope.” Blake Young: “I got a pretty good start out there on the Rockstar Makita Suzuki GSX-R1000. After getting out front, I really wanted to se what the track was like and I just tried to get comfortable and put in a pace that I was comfortable doing. Ben (Bostrom) came by and he was running a bit quicker, so I just jumped in and tried to learn where he was a little bit better. All of a sudden, Mat came by and he was running even more of a quicker pace, so I knew he was going to go. I was just trying to stay on his rear wheel and wait until he went by Ben and try to go with him. It didn’t end up like that. We had to wait another lap, but I just kept my head down and worked really hard this weekend. We’ve got another race tomorrow, and hopefully we can get up there and race with Mat a little bit longer.” Tommy Hayden: “The race went all right. We made a lot of changes to the bike last night, the most we’ve made in a long time and definitely on this new bike. And not having a warm-up this morning because of the rain, I wasn’t really sure of the bike. But as the race went on, I got comfortable with the GSX-R1000 and was going faster and faster. I was able to close up the gap to the battle for second place. But unfortunately, I ran out of time and I wasn’t able to get by. But I definitely felt like we were moving forward today and hope that tomorrow we’ll start out a little bit stronger and get a little bit better result.” Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing will race again tomorrow at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, May 3, 2009.