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AMA SBK: Blake Young - Don’t Get Home Schooled
Blake Young is in need of a huge weekend to prevent Josh Hayes from taking control of the '12 AMA Pro Superbike Championship.
Blake Young (Photo: Evan Williams)
PROGRAMMING NOTE: The AMA Pro Road Racing action from Road America will air on SPEED at 11:00pm ET on Saturday, June 3rd and Sunday, June 4th.
It’s a big weekend for Yoshimura Suzuki’s Blake Young. The rider recently relegated to second in AMA Pro Superbike points returns to his home track hoping to stave off Josh Hayes’ recent surge.
Young led the points headed into Utah but -- like at the Sonoma round -- Young could never find the pace to match Hayes. Young crashed in the morning warm-up trying to keep up. In hindsight, he was lucky there was only one race at Miller, or he might have bled off even more points to Hayes, who now leads by seven points now, 194 to 187.
There’s no arguing how talented a motorcycle racer Blake Young is; his 15 AMA Pro and 13 Superbike wins have proven it, as they usually happen in dramatic fashion. But the truly great racers have the ability to summon speed and skill when they need it most, like Hayes did last season to come back and repeat as Superbike champ.
It was a rumored in the Italian press that Yoshimura crew chief Peter Doyle was leaving the team to go to the Fixi Cresent Suzuki team, but that was unfounded. In fact, we’re eyeballing Doyle in the Yosh pits in the opening practice.
Speaking of that session, Hayes hit the ground running, getting in the 2:12 range quickly while no one else had broken the mid-2:15 mark around the halfway mark in the session. Hayes then worked down to the 2:11.554 mark, quicker than he went all weekend in '11. Last year, Hayes’s fast lap at Road America was 2:11.913. Young’s best time this morning, meanwhile, was 2:13.889.
That made it pretty clear what Hayes’ agenda is this weekend -- not just beat Young but whip him.
One of Young’s best Superbike wins was his Saturday win here when he beat Hayes and Tommy Hayden, and one of his best wins overall was a Superstock race in tough conditions where he caught Yates coming up the hill at the flag to earn his first career AMA Pro Road Racing victory.
Even if Hayes is fast taking on an aura of invincibility, If there’s a place where Young can turn it around, it’s at the Madison, Wisconsin, native’s home track.
It’s a big weekend for Yoshimura Suzuki’s Blake Young. The rider recently relegated to second in AMA Pro Superbike points returns to his home track hoping to stave off Josh Hayes’ recent surge.
Young led the points headed into Utah but -- like at the Sonoma round -- Young could never find the pace to match Hayes. Young crashed in the morning warm-up trying to keep up. In hindsight, he was lucky there was only one race at Miller, or he might have bled off even more points to Hayes, who now leads by seven points now, 194 to 187.
There’s no arguing how talented a motorcycle racer Blake Young is; his 15 AMA Pro and 13 Superbike wins have proven it, as they usually happen in dramatic fashion. But the truly great racers have the ability to summon speed and skill when they need it most, like Hayes did last season to come back and repeat as Superbike champ.
It was a rumored in the Italian press that Yoshimura crew chief Peter Doyle was leaving the team to go to the Fixi Cresent Suzuki team, but that was unfounded. In fact, we’re eyeballing Doyle in the Yosh pits in the opening practice.
Speaking of that session, Hayes hit the ground running, getting in the 2:12 range quickly while no one else had broken the mid-2:15 mark around the halfway mark in the session. Hayes then worked down to the 2:11.554 mark, quicker than he went all weekend in '11. Last year, Hayes’s fast lap at Road America was 2:11.913. Young’s best time this morning, meanwhile, was 2:13.889.
That made it pretty clear what Hayes’ agenda is this weekend -- not just beat Young but whip him.
One of Young’s best Superbike wins was his Saturday win here when he beat Hayes and Tommy Hayden, and one of his best wins overall was a Superstock race in tough conditions where he caught Yates coming up the hill at the flag to earn his first career AMA Pro Road Racing victory.
Even if Hayes is fast taking on an aura of invincibility, If there’s a place where Young can turn it around, it’s at the Madison, Wisconsin, native’s home track.
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