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AMA Pro Superbike
AMA SBK: Hayes Scorches To Provisional Pole
A 'nervous' Josh Hayes set the early pace on a blisteringly hot day at Barber Motorsports Park.
Monster Energy Graves Yamaha's Josh Hayes (Photo: Evan Williams)
PROGRAMMING NOTE: The AMA Pro Road Racing action from Barber Motorsports Park will air on SPEED Sunday night at Midnight ET and Monday at Noon ET.
Josh Hayes continued his ownership of the top spot on the charts on the opening day of AMA Pro Superbike action at Barber Motorsports Park.
While that's almost become a given, Hayes admitted that he was feeling the heat today -- and not just the punishing 90+ degree temperatures that are expected to be a fixture this weekend.
While his rivals are scrambling to match the Monster Energy Graves Yamaha ace's torrid pace of late, Hayes admitted that he felt the pressure of needing to keep that momentum up in Birmingham at a racetrack he's yet to win at in the premier class.
"I can tell you this morning I was incredibly nervous when I rolled out on the track," he explained. "I think that Miller and Road America, I set the bar so high for myself here, which has not been one of my better racetracks. You'd think I'd come in very, very confident, but I kind of have this head of steam rolling and if I come here and I can't continue a trend where I'm setting the pace, I'm going to be… that would be a pretty hard one to swallow.
"You try to take it one weekend and then move onto the next one but you know, I've been pretty nervous."
Hayes didn't look too jittery out there on Friday, lapping under his '11 pole time and leading the way over second-quick Geoff May on the Team Amsoil/Hero EBR entry by nearly four tenths of a second.
Josh Hayes continued his ownership of the top spot on the charts on the opening day of AMA Pro Superbike action at Barber Motorsports Park.
While that's almost become a given, Hayes admitted that he was feeling the heat today -- and not just the punishing 90+ degree temperatures that are expected to be a fixture this weekend.
While his rivals are scrambling to match the Monster Energy Graves Yamaha ace's torrid pace of late, Hayes admitted that he felt the pressure of needing to keep that momentum up in Birmingham at a racetrack he's yet to win at in the premier class.
"I can tell you this morning I was incredibly nervous when I rolled out on the track," he explained. "I think that Miller and Road America, I set the bar so high for myself here, which has not been one of my better racetracks. You'd think I'd come in very, very confident, but I kind of have this head of steam rolling and if I come here and I can't continue a trend where I'm setting the pace, I'm going to be… that would be a pretty hard one to swallow.
"You try to take it one weekend and then move onto the next one but you know, I've been pretty nervous."
Hayes didn't look too jittery out there on Friday, lapping under his '11 pole time and leading the way over second-quick Geoff May on the Team Amsoil/Hero EBR entry by nearly four tenths of a second.
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