AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike

Castrol Triumph’s Jason DiSalvo won the Infineon Raceway GoPro Daytona SportBike race. The New Yorker had faced some tough luck this year, showing great speed but having some mechanical ills. His luck changed on Sunday and he won the first-ever Daytona SportBike race for Triumph.

“It’s been a year (since I won,)” said DiSalvo. “I rode as hard as I could. It sounds like there was a lot of stuff going on behind me. It was pretty brutal out there today. When it gets hot in Northern California, it gets really hot.”

Tommy Hayden was last before the red flag after Jake Zemke’s crash pushed him off the track, but the Y.E.S. Graves Yamaha man took full advantage of the red flag and subsequent restart. Hayden, who used a harder tire on Sunday, finished 9.531 seconds back and moved up to second place in the points.

Daytona 200 winner Joey Pascarella (SGA Yamaha) earned anther podium with third place in Sonoma. Pascarella, from nearby Vacaville, CA ran at the front in both starts on Sunday.

The battle for fourth place was a thriller with Cory West (Riders Discount Vesrah Suzuki) and J.D. Beach (RoadRace Factory/Red Bull) passing Bobby Fong (Meen Motorsports) in the last turn of the last lap.

Points leader Cardenas crashed out of second for GEICO Suzuki. Cardenas was able to pass Joey Pascarella and Tommy Hayden and was cutting into DiSalvo’s lead in the closing laps, but tossed it away in the Esses on lap 18.

AMA Pro Motorcycle-Superstore.com SuperSport

James Rispoli (Orient Express Celtic Racing) won Sunday’s AMA Pro MotorcycleSuperstore.com SuperSport race at Infineon Raceway. After two red flags, Rispoli had a tough battle with Dustin Dominguez (Castrol Triumph) and Tomas Puerta (RoadRace Factory/Red Bull.)

The race came down to a ten-lap restart. Puerta applied the pressure to Rispoli early and Dominguez was the danger man for the last laps.

“Luckily, I had a good start all three times. Today I rode really hard and hats off to everybody,” said Rispoli. “Everyone is riding really well in SuperSport right now.”

Road Atlanta winner Jake Lewis was able to pressure Puerta late. The Riders Discount Vesrah Suzuki rider beat Hayden Gillim (RoadRace Factory/Red Bull) by less than 0.03 for fourth place. Just 2.650 seconds separated the top five riders in the 54-competitor field.