Spies completes perfect MMP weekend -ozzy go- amasuperbike.com

Sunday’s AMA Superbike final at Miller Motorsports Park was a
dramatic affair with major championship implication shifts by
the lap. At the conclusion of the once-stopped final, Yoshimura
Suzuki’s Ben Spies stood atop the podium for the third time in two
days, completing a clean sweep of runaway victories from pole at
the Tooele, Utah venue this weekend. While the defending class
champion continued his stunning mid-season surge, taking
another key step towards a repeat crown, it was teammate Mat
Mladin who had the wildest day, ultimately escaping disaster and
keeping his title hopes very much alive with a heroic effort. The
Australian powered into the lead on the opening lap and built up
a small advantage while Spies worked his way around American
Honda’s Jake Zemke into second. Mladin boasted an early 1.667-
second gap but the Texan was whittling away at that lead,
decreasing it to 1.295 seconds to open lap 6. Moments later it
evaporated completely as Mladin suffered a horrific-looking Turn
1 highside. The six-time champ hit the ground hard and it initially
appeared as if may have been seriously injured. When the red
flag brought the proceedings to a halt, Mladin slowly got back up
to his feet and made his way back to pitlane in to prepare for the
restart. Forced to start from the back of the field on the machine
that he had just crashed (which was frantically repaired by his
crack crew), the Aussie stormed all the way into ninth on the
restart’s opening corner... click on ozzy go to the full story