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AMA Pro Superbike
AMA DSB: Road America Review
Martin Cardenas continued his impressive return to the AMA Pro Daytona SportBike class with another double victory.
(Photo: AMA Pro Racing/Brian J Nelson)
2010 AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike champ Martin Cardenas did nothing at Road America but help his chances of winning another crown. Cardenas won both races at the 4.05-mile track and now has a commanding lead in the championship. The GEICO Suzuki pilot leads by 47 points over on-track rival Jason DiSalvo of Team Latus Motors Racing Triumph.
With the three-race stretch held in a little over a week, Cardenas has rallied nicely from his Sonoma crash by taking three wins and three bonus points to curtail any damage done by that mishap.
GoPro Daytona SportBike racing is always tight by nature, but Cardenas has found a way to get ahead on the last lap time and time again in his tenure in the class. Two wins by a little over a second each time out in Wisconsin ... the all-time class wins leader described it as a "perfect weekend," even though it was hard to shake his rivals.
"I just tried to push, get in a good rhythm, and see if somebody comes with me or not," said Cardenas. "A lot of guys were really close behind me. I knew the last two laps were going to be really important. When the time came, I pushed very hard."
DiSalvo earned the podium twice and made a good charge through the field to get there on Sunday. Afterward, the New Yorker said it reminded him of his 2010 Moto2 race at Indy.
"That last lap was really incredible. It was everything I had, that's for the whole race. The whole race I was hammer down trying to make up positions," DiSalvo said. "We just got a bad start and got buried back at the back of the lead group. It was a couple of laps before the field started to thin out. I noticed every time someone started to drop off the pack, it would be like they would lose a little bit of the draft that'd allow me to get around them and then close the gap back up to the lead group. As the lead group got smaller and smaller, I just worked my way up into it. At the end, we found ourselves sort of in contention until the end when stuff started going sideways with Cameron (Beaubier) and J.D. (Beach). We were all battling really hard. It let Martin get away a little bit, but no regrets. Second place feels like a win."
Cameron Beaubier (Y.E.S./Graves/Yamaha) ran strong once again and took second on Saturday and looked to repeat on Sunday before a last lap crash put him out of the event.
That elevated J.D. Beach and RoadRace Factory/Red Bull to their first GoPro Daytona SportBike podium.
"We've just been working really hard and moving forward, improving race by race, not trying to do anything crazy and crash. It was good race, it was really good battle being up front. All of those four guys are really fast," Beach said. "It was cool to be racing with Martin (Cardenas), Jason (DiSalvo), Cameron (Beaubier) and Tommy Hayden and everybody, because when I was in SuperSport I was watching them and trying to learn from them. Now I'm racing against them."
With the three-race stretch held in a little over a week, Cardenas has rallied nicely from his Sonoma crash by taking three wins and three bonus points to curtail any damage done by that mishap.
GoPro Daytona SportBike racing is always tight by nature, but Cardenas has found a way to get ahead on the last lap time and time again in his tenure in the class. Two wins by a little over a second each time out in Wisconsin ... the all-time class wins leader described it as a "perfect weekend," even though it was hard to shake his rivals.
"I just tried to push, get in a good rhythm, and see if somebody comes with me or not," said Cardenas. "A lot of guys were really close behind me. I knew the last two laps were going to be really important. When the time came, I pushed very hard."
DiSalvo earned the podium twice and made a good charge through the field to get there on Sunday. Afterward, the New Yorker said it reminded him of his 2010 Moto2 race at Indy.
"That last lap was really incredible. It was everything I had, that's for the whole race. The whole race I was hammer down trying to make up positions," DiSalvo said. "We just got a bad start and got buried back at the back of the lead group. It was a couple of laps before the field started to thin out. I noticed every time someone started to drop off the pack, it would be like they would lose a little bit of the draft that'd allow me to get around them and then close the gap back up to the lead group. As the lead group got smaller and smaller, I just worked my way up into it. At the end, we found ourselves sort of in contention until the end when stuff started going sideways with Cameron (Beaubier) and J.D. (Beach). We were all battling really hard. It let Martin get away a little bit, but no regrets. Second place feels like a win."
Cameron Beaubier (Y.E.S./Graves/Yamaha) ran strong once again and took second on Saturday and looked to repeat on Sunday before a last lap crash put him out of the event.
That elevated J.D. Beach and RoadRace Factory/Red Bull to their first GoPro Daytona SportBike podium.
"We've just been working really hard and moving forward, improving race by race, not trying to do anything crazy and crash. It was good race, it was really good battle being up front. All of those four guys are really fast," Beach said. "It was cool to be racing with Martin (Cardenas), Jason (DiSalvo), Cameron (Beaubier) and Tommy Hayden and everybody, because when I was in SuperSport I was watching them and trying to learn from them. Now I'm racing against them."
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