Zemke Does the Double at Daytona and Nips Tommy Hayden at the Line by .009 Seconds!

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Jake Zemke on the Team Honda CBR1000RR Superbike during qualifying for the AMA round at Barber Motorsports Park in April of 2007. Jake won the second superbike race today at Daytona to make it 2-0 on the competition and for Team Jordan Motorsports for a fine start to the 2010 AMA Superbike season. Today was Jake's second win as well on a Suzuki after having ridden Honda's for the better part of the last decade. Looks like a pretty good career move....

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Tommy Hayden on his Team Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000 during superbike race one action at Barber Motorsports Park in April of 2007. Hayden came up .002 seconds short of his initial win again today after garnering second in yesterday's race one. Still, a good start for Tommy Gun.

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Ben 'B-Boz' Bostrom on his Team Graves Motorsports Yamaha R1-based SuperStock bike during qualifying for the Barber AMA round in April of 2007. The '98 Superbike Champ and 2009 Daytona 200 Champ came from 1.2 seconds behind setting the fastest lap of the race on lap 9 to nab third place today .081 seconds behind Jake Zemke and Tommy Hayden. It looks like Ben and Pat Clark Motorsports may have something to bring to the table this year and bringing in outside-the-industry sponsors in the Palms Resort and Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

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Jake Zemke made the career switch of his life this year and he more then proved it today by winning his second Daytona SuperBike race in as many days and giving Team Jordan Suzuki it's second premier class victory in as many days as well. Zemke made a run at the end on Tommy Hayden and beat him to the line by .009 seconds. Ben Bostrom was third .081 back on Zemke.
Here's the official report by the great people of http://www.cyclenews.com/ and the top 10 results:
http://cyclenews.com/articles/road-racing/2010/03/05/zemke-again-in-daytona-superbike
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Both yesterday's and today's races will be shown on Speed TV on Saturday, Mar. 6th at 10:30 EST-providing the earlier delayed coverage of the supercross event doesn't run over.
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----Friday, Mar. 5th 6:30 P.M. EST Update-----
Here's a super article that reaks of the enthusiasm of and in the race today by the great bunch of people over at www.roadracerx.com. This is a MUST read!
http://www.roadracerx.com/breaking-news/ama-pro-american-superbike-report-spoiler-pics/
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Congrats to Jake, Jordan Motorsports/National Guard Suzuki, Tommy Hayden and the Rockstar Makita Yoshimura Suzuki team, and Ben Bostrom and the Pat Clark Yamaha team on a fine show today. We're looking forward to the rest of the year with finishes like this!
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Saturday March 6, 1:4o P.M.
I wanted to add the press conference from the second superbike race as was put together for us fans by Susan Haas over at Dean Adam's super site www.superbikeplanet.com. If you can't read the whole thing, take the time to scroll down to the bottom and the comment that Ben Bostrom makes about the great week it was for all at Daytona, and how the feeling in the paddock was MUCH better to start the year off from the DMG-run series then the stain it left on everyone's shirts from the 2009 version. Very good sounding news for the fans and the competitors after what everyone had to endure last year. Bravo to the AMA and the DMG folks! Keep up the great work!
http://superbikeplanet.com/2010/Mar/100306a.htm

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'Tommy Gun' Hayden Breaks His AMA Superbike Cherry at Fontana Race 2

Tommy Hayden on the #22 Team Yamaha YZF-750 is sandwiched by the Team Harley VR1000's of #21 Pascal Picotte and #4 Scott Russell as they traverse the carousel part of the track at Mid Ohio during race two of the AMA Superbike Honda Supercycle Weekend in Lexington, OH., in July of 2000. After all these years Hayden put it on the top of the box in the premier class yesterday in race 2 at Fontana's Auto Club Speedway.

'Tommy Gun' Hayden practices the #22 Team Yoshimura GSX-R1000 Superbike at Barber Motorsports Park outside of Birmingham, AL., for the April '07 running of the AMA Pro Road Races at the pristine facility. After having raced in the Superbike class for the better part of 13 years, Tommy Gun got it done yesterday in race 2 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA. and got his first premier class win. He dedicated the win to father Earl.

After having won races and championships in just about every other AMA Road Racing class he has raced in, Tommy Hayden finally got it done in the premier class yesterday to break his cherry in AMA Superbike racing by winning race two at Fontana to beat Josh Hayes to the line by less then a half a second. Tommy took the win aboard his Team Rockstar Makita Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000.

Having suffered from the classic 'bride's maid' runner up for so many times and after 13 years of on/off running in the Superbike class, Hayden was able to hold off the charges of Hayes on the Graves Yamaha and of his own team mate, Blake Young on another Team Yosh GSX-R1000. Tommy dedicated the win to his Dad, Earl Hayden, who has been the man behind the three brothers-Tommy, Nicky and Roger Lee-that have raced and triumphed on the track since they barely able to swing a leg over a race bike.

The race was marred by a crash involving Aaron Yates on the #23 Michael Jordan Motorsports Suzuki during the morning warm-up. After setting fast time in the only qualifying session-due to the intense winds on Saturday causing cancelation of session two-and putting it on the box in race one, Aaron again set face pace for the second race warm up, only to crash and get hit by Chris Ulrich when he went down-to no fault of Ulrich's as all in hand said it was a case of 'no where to go.' Here is a clip from the folks at On The Throttle TV from another link over at RoadRacingWorld.com that has Yates' crew chief Richie Alexander talking about what happened and what directions the team may have to go if Aaron isn't able to return by the next round at Road Atlanta April 16th. That part doesn't sound too good as he apparently suffered two breaks in the fibula and tibia parts of the leg. More on that here as well:

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=39899
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?lnk=rss&article=39911

Congrats to Tommy and Team Yoshimura for the break out win, and for find to see him get that big class win is monumental. Many years of hard work and dedication does pay off. And it doesn't hurt that he's a great guy! Great job Tommy Gun!
You can read the official race review and results below, and check out the video of official press conference.