Blake Young Awarded Road Atlanta SBK R1 Win After Protest on Hayes Reviewed by AMA/DMG Officials

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Aaron Yates on the #20 Team Jordan Suzuki GSX-R1000 leads Blake Young on the #79 M4 Emgo Suzuki GSX-R1000 during the AMA Superstock finale at Mid Ohio in 2008. Young was awarded his first AMA Superbike win late this afternoon after protests filed by Team Suzuki questioning Josh Hayes win and lack of penalty for a jump-start before the lap four red flag. Hayes was relegated to sixth place after the penalty was allowed and figured into the race final standings. Yates replacement on the Team Jordan Suzuki #23 bike this weekend has been Brett McCormick, the runner-up in the '09 Canadian Superbike Series. McCormick was running in the top 8 when he crashed out unhurt this afternoon. Last word had Yates possibly returning to action mid-May at Infineon should his leg injuries heal properly. Let's hope they do!
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Blake Young, on the #79 Team Yoshimura Rockstar Makita Suzuki GSX-R1000 was awarded the win after penalties for Josh Hayes' jump-start were reviewed after the completion of race one in AMA Superbike action at Road Atlanta.
The win was Young's first in the AMA premier class to match team mate's Tommy Hayden's first win at Fontana several weeks ago.

The write-up on the finish resolution can be read here thanks to Dean Adams at SuperbikePlanet.com, who reportedly is one of five media journalists on-site this weekend in the red clay state of Georgia.
Although this may seem out of line to what the DMG folks have been trying to do to turn the running of the series around this year after last year's debacles, the review was explained and it sounds like mistakes in timing and scoring were what actually factored into the decisions in initially giving the win to Hayes. Even Josh commented in the press conference how he thought that a mistake was made and he was taking advantage of that error:

http://superbikeplanet.com/2010/Apr/100417newrezults.htm
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Here's another update from the folks at RoadRacerX.com:

http://www.roadracerx.com/breaking-news/rrx-race-report-ama-pro-superbike-saturday-spoiler-alert/
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Sat. 4/17/10 2010 EDT UPDATE:

Here is the final rundown on the penalty and outcome of race one at HotLanta today penned by the original Henny Ray Adams over at CycleNews.com. This further explains the outcome and the reasoning for the change.
Congrats to Blake Young on his first AMA Superbike race win! I'm sure it's the first of many to come on this team and with Mat Mladin's former crew chief Peter Doyle in charge and Blake twisting the throttle there most likely will be MANY more.
Read on:

http://www.cyclenews.com/articles/road-racing/2010/04/17/hayes-taken-down-young-wins
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Aaron Gobert-The Middle Brother of the Racing Gobert Brothers-Is Racing in Australian Supersport Championship for 2010 Season

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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.

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:

http://roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=39747

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