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Aaron Gobert on the #96 Rockwall Honda CBR600RR getting light in the rear end and crossed-up in the front end during the wet practice session at Road America for the AMA Formula Xtreme class. The 'middle' Gobert brother used this cool move as shown from the turn 10 area of the track to nail the win in the FX final on Sunday of June of 2008 for his only win of the class for the year, but a thrilling one it was! Gobert is the middle brother of the Gobert clan that consists of oldest brother Anthony 'The Go Show' Gobert and Alex Gobert, the 'youngster.' There was some good water and a lot of vitamins in that family as all of them have or have had some immense racing talent that has seperated them from us mere mortals.
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Josh Hayes on the Attack Kawasaki ZX-10R leads Tommy Hayden on the #22 Team Kawasaki ZX-10R and Aaron Gobert on the #96 Team Graves Yamaha YZF-R1 coming out of turn 8 at Road America during the SuperStock finale of June 2004. Tommy Gun took the win over Josh by .018 seconds with Aaron 1.496 seconds back of winner Hayden. Hayes was the reigning champ from '03 in this class and Gobert won it for the 2004 season, while Hayden was the '04 and '05 AMA SuperSport Champion.
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Gobert on the #96 Team Graves Yamaha YZF-R1 while qualifying for the AMA SuperStock race at Road America in June of 2004. Aaron was also the 2000 Australian 250 Production Champion and started racing in the States in 2001. This will be his first year back home racing in the Land of Oz since that time. We wish him the very best of luck and hope to see him back in the States very soon slinging it into the corners! After nine years here in the States he will be missed on and off the track.
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Aaron Gobert can be seen rifling through traffic on the back part of the course at Mid Ohio on the #1 Team Graves Yamaha YZF-R1 during the July 2005 running of the AMA SuperStock final. Just coming into the photo leftside is Brent George on the Corona Suzuki GSX-R1000, just exiting shot on rightside is one of the Team Jordan Suzuki's (not enough rider/bike to positive ID but it should be either #15 Steve Rapp or #43 Jason Pridmore since they all were running in a group at this venture of the race). Just behind Aaron is #149 Blake Young on the Millenium Technologies Suzuki GSX-R1000.
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What appears to be another hit in racing due to the downside of the economy, Aaron Gobert, the 'middle' of the three Australian Gobert clan, has headed back 'home' to the Land Down Under to contest the Australian Supersport Championship for the 2010 season. Having come to the States in 2001 to race in the AMA Pro Road Racing series, and winning the 2004 AMA SuperStock Championship while riding for Team Graves Yamaha along the way, Aaron has been one of the 'staples' of riders that have contested the series regularly for the last 8-10 years. Gobert has ridden for Graves Yamaha, Erion Honda Racing and Rockwall Honda in the AMA SuperSport, AMA SuperStock and AMA Formula Xtreme classes, and last year took on the venture of racing the new Aprilia Factory RSV1000R in the Daytona SportBike class. With his experience on the middleweight class machines and hooking up with a Graves-prepped Yamaha R6 for the Australian series, this could be a very strong move for Aaron.
What appears to be another hit in racing due to the downside of the economy, Aaron Gobert, the 'middle' of the three Australian Gobert clan, has headed back 'home' to the Land Down Under to contest the Australian Supersport Championship for the 2010 season. Having come to the States in 2001 to race in the AMA Pro Road Racing series, and winning the 2004 AMA SuperStock Championship while riding for Team Graves Yamaha along the way, Aaron has been one of the 'staples' of riders that have contested the series regularly for the last 8-10 years. Gobert has ridden for Graves Yamaha, Erion Honda Racing and Rockwall Honda in the AMA SuperSport, AMA SuperStock and AMA Formula Xtreme classes, and last year took on the venture of racing the new Aprilia Factory RSV1000R in the Daytona SportBike class. With his experience on the middleweight class machines and hooking up with a Graves-prepped Yamaha R6 for the Australian series, this could be a very strong move for Aaron.
We wish Aaron the very best and hope his season goes well, and hope sometime soon down the road we will see him back here in the States on competitive equipment! Good luck to ya mate and be safe!
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Here's the link to the article about Aaron's venture racing back home in the Land Down Under in the Australian Supersport Championship thanks to the great pen-or laptop-of David Swarts at RoadRacingWorld.com:
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