Hayes and Cardenas Bag Race 1 Wins at AMA Infineon Raceway

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Martin Cardenas on the #36 M4 Emgo Suzuki GSX-R600 leads eventual winner Ben Bostrom on the #155 Graves Yamaha YZF-R6 in AMA Supersport action at Mid Ohio in July of 2008. Bostrom got around Cardenas and romped to the Supersport final win that day and went on to clinch the 2008 AMA Supersport Championship later in the year. Following close on their heels are Erion Parts Unlimited Racing team mates Josh Hayes on the #4 and Jake Zemke on the #98 Honda CBR600RR's. Zemke went on to win the AMA Formula Xtreme Championship in '08 over team mate Hayes and between them won 8 races and garnered 16 podiums in nine rounds.
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Josh Hayes on the #4 Graves Yamaha YZF-R1 won his first race of the year today in the AMA Superbike West Coast Jam at Infineon Raceway, while Martin Cardenas on the #36 Monster Energy Suzuki GSX-R600 took top honors in the Daytona Sportbike class in race one action today. Hayes amassed over a 5.5 second lead in the AMA Superbike race before cruising to an eventual 3.6 second win over Ben Bostrom on the #155 Clark Motorsports Yamaha R1, with Larry Pegram on the #72 Foremost Insurance Ducati 1198R another 3.5 seconds back. The Daytona Sportbike race went back and forth between Cardenas and '09 AMA Daytona Sportbike Champion Danny Eslick on the #1 Geico RMR Racing GSX-R600 until Martin pulled away to win by just over .8 seconds. Tommy Aquino on the Graves Yamaha YZF-R6 #6 was another tick behind to finish third with the top three covered by less then a second.
Results of both races are below, and you can catch the action on SpeedTV tonight 10 P.M.-Midnight EDT and more to be shown Sunday at 2 P.M. EDT and then again Sunday Midnight-2 A.M. EDT. I've also included AMA links to their results and live timing to follow tomorrow's action as well if you get the chance.
In other news, Kurtis Roberts return to the track didn't go quite as planned as the Ace Racing Yamaha R1 suffered what sounded to be semi-terminal electrical gremlins that kept him and the team off the track all day on Friday. We hope the team can get these problems ironed out before the next round at Road America in early June. Hang in there, Kurtis!
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AMA Superbike race one results from the once-known-as Sears Point Raceway courtesy of the great people at RoadRacingWorld.com:
http://roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=40464
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AMA Daytona Sportbike race one results are here again thanks to RRW.com:
http://roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=40465
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AMA Event Info for Infineon Raceway:
http://amaproracing.com/rr/events/event.cfm?eid=2010011020
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AMA Live Timing and Scoring for Infineon:
http://laptraxtg.racersites-cluster.com/LapTraxTG/AMA/livescoring.html?LAPTRAXID=2010011020
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