Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing’s Ben Spies celebrated the end of an excellent AMA Superbike double-header weekend at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah on Sunday with a double victory for the GSX-R1000.
The defending AMA Superbike Champion won Sunday’s 14-lap race, after having already won Saturday’s race - and capturing pole position for the weekend.
Sunday’s result marks the two-time AMA Superbike Champion’s 24th career AMA Superbike victory and increases his standings in the overall championship.
Rockstar Makita Suzuki team mate Mat Mladin was right behind Spies off the start but he was overtaken over the course of the race and finished in fourth position and holds second place in the overall championship.
Ben Spies:
“After the first few laps I saw I had a gap on Mat, but I knew Jamie Hacking would be strong after doing so well yesterday. So I just tried to put in some good laps on the Rockstar Makita Suzuki GSX-R1000. I tried to keep the gap the same and just bring home the win in the end. Everything was good this weekend and I’ve got to thank my crew for giving me such a good bike in the Suzuki. This weekend definitely helped us out in the whole championship points-chase. What we’ve been doing this year has worked so far. We’ve won six in a row and we’re going for that elusive seven. That’s a record I definitely want… so we’re going for
it at Road America. We’ll see how it goes. We’re definitely going to give it a go and just try to keep winning races.”
Mat Mladin:
“I was looking forward to a good race with Ben today and my Rockstar Makita Suzuki GSX-R1000 was working fine. But I reckon yesterday’s crash banged me up a little bit more than I thought. There’s nothing seriously wrong or anything but I was pretty stiff and not 100 per cent. I’m not making any excuses; we just didn’t get it done today. Now I’m just going to focus on rebuilding my confidence for next week’s race at Road America where we won a race last year and have had some success in the past.”
AMA Superbike Top 10 Finishers:
1. Ben Spies (Rockstar Makita Suzuki)
2. Jamie Hacking (Kawasaki)
3. Neil Hodgson (Honda)
4. Mat Mladin (Rockstar Makita Suzuki)
5. Aaron Yates (Jordan Suzuki)
6. Miguel Duhamel (Honda)
7. Geoff May (Jordan Suzuki)
8. Jason Disalvo (Yamaha)
9. Eric Bostrom (Yamaha)
10. Chris Peris (Suzuki)
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