Young Quick In Morning Session
Paul Carruthers | July 4, 2009
Suzukis took the top four spots in this morning’s final practice session leading to this afternoon’s qualifying for the AMA American Superbike class at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, and the fastest of them was the Yoshimura Suzuki of Blake Young.Young lapped at 1:25.090 to sneak ahead of Jordan Motorsports’ Aaron Yates and his 1:25.117 with the top seven within a second of the top spot. Mat Mladin rode his Yosh GSX-R1000 to the third best time, some .3 of a second ahead of his teammate Tommy Hayden.The first of the non-Suzukis was the Ducati of Larry Pegram with the Ohioan besting the first of the factory Yamahas ridden by Josh Hayes. Then came yestesday’s fast man Jake Holden on the Corona Honda with Yamaha’s Ben Bostrom and National Guard Suzuki’s Geoff May rounding out the top 10.
Superbike Practice
1. Blake Young (Suzuki) 1:25.090
2. Aaron Yates (Suzuki) 1:25.117
3. Mat Mladin (Suzuki) 1:25.177
4. Tommy Hayden (Suzuki) 1:25.479
5. Larry Pegram (Suzuki) 1:25.565
6. Josh Hayes (Yamaha) 1:25.654
7. Jake Holden (Honda) 1:25.789
8. Ben Bostrom (Yamaha) 1:25.995
9. Geoff May (Suzuki) 1:26.148
10. David Anthony (Suzuki) 1:26.258
Paul Carruthers | Editor
Paul Carruthers took over as the editor of Cycle News in 1993 after serving as associate editor since starting his career at the publication in 1985. Carruthers has covered every facet of the sport in his near-28-year tenure at America's Daily Motorcycle News Source.
