Barber: AMA SportBike Saturday Results

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Saturday’s action at Barber Motorsports Park produced some memorable races where some of the championship pieces began to fall into place as the 2010 AMA Pro Road Racing season draws to a close.

In Daytona SportBike presented by AMSOIL, Martin Cardenas rode one of his most measured and complete races of the year in capturing his series high eighth race win of the season and in the process, he took over the points lead from Danny Eslick.

Martin and his M4 Monster Energy Suzuki now lead the Daytona SportBike standings by five points over Eslick and his GEICO Powersports Suzuki by eight over Josh Herrin going into tomorrow’s final race of the Daytona SportBike season.

Taking a surprise second place was Project 1 Atlanta Yamaha rider Clinton Seller. He has been quick all weekend and he pretty much attached himself to the back of Martin’s Suzuki and stayed there for the entire 21 lap race.

Clinton tried on more than one occasion to pass Martin but using excellent judgment and skill, Clinton raced Martin hard but fair and at the end, he was only 0.127 of a second behind at the checkered flag.

It was Danny Eslick that had the most eventful race, he grabbed the early lead but just as quickly, the race was red flagged due to a couple of incidents, Paul Allison went down in turn one and three more motorcycles went off together later on the same lap necessitating a red flag.

On the restart, Cardenas got a much better start and he and Sellers pretty much rode off into the sunset. It was Eslick and a number of other riders including the third contender in the points chase, Team Graves Yamaha rider Josh Herrin who captured much of the focus of the race.

As the bulk of the field was battling early, Herrin and Eslick got together and Herrin was pushed back to seventh place but he recovered well and put his head down to work his way right back up through the field.

He re-passed Eslick on lap six, worked his way up to third and then began chipping away at the first two, at one point he seemed to be making slight progress but at the end, the leaders encountered a big group of slower riders and as Martin and Clinton were able to slice through, Josh was delayed just enough to end his slight chance at victory.

Eslick battled all day and even though he might not have had the outright speed needed to win, as usual he never gave up and finished fifth behind Seller’s Project 1 Atlanta Yamaha teammate, Dane Westby.

With Martin’s win, he moves to the top of the standings with 375, Eslick now is in second with 372 and Herrin is in third with 367.

Again, all bets are off for tomorrow’s race with 31 points up for grabs. As it has all year, the Daytona SportBike race will be a thriller and go right down to the wire.

Superbike Classic

Daytona SportBike Race – Daytona SportBike

September 25, 2010 Barber Motorsports Park

Birmingham, AL

Race Time: 31:24.527

Margin of Victory: 0.127

Best Race Lap: Clinton Seller (1:28.699)

Pos	No.	Rider(s)	Team	Bike	Interval	Gap	Best Lap	Points
1	36	Martin Cardenas	M4 Monster Energy Suzuki	Suzuki GSX-R600	21 Laps	WINNER	1:29.195	0
2	4	Clinton Seller	Project 1 Atlanta	Yamaha YZF-R6	0.127	0.127	1:28.699	0
3	8	Josh Herrin	Team Graves Yamaha	Yamaha YZF-R6	2.677	2.550	1:29.355	0
4	2	Dane Westby	Project 1 Atlanta	Yamaha YZF-R6	10.481	7.803	1:29.443	0
5	1	Danny Eslick	GEICO Powersports ·RMR ·Suzuki	Suzuki GSX-R600	17.269	6.788	1:29.346	0
6	133	Kyle Wyman	Harv`s Harley-Davidson	Yamaha YZF-R6	35.817	18.548	1:30.264	0
7	54	P. J. Jacobsen	Celtic Racing	Suzuki GSX-R600	49.763	13.945	1:29.670	0
8	38	Kris Turner	Turner`s Cycle Racing	Suzuki GSX-R600	52.212	2.449	1:30.845	0
9	60	Michael Beck	DNA Energy Drink CNR Motorsports Ducati	Ducati 848	53.701	1.488	1:31.627	0
10	16	Russ Wikle	Wikle Racing	Suzuki GSX-R600	1:02.059	8.358	1:31.619	0
11	7	Fernando Amantini	Team Amantini	Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R	1:02.408	0.349	1:31.809	0
12	29	Barrett Long	Longevity Racing	Ducati 848	1:16.202	13.793	1:32.281	0
13	78	Reese Wacker	Wacker Racing LLC	Suzuki GSX-R600	1:16.332	0.130	1:32.619	0
14	120	Jodi Christie	Jodi Christie Racing	Honda CBR600RR	20 Laps	1 Lap	1:33.172	0
15	461	Abe Stacey	Southern Motorsports	Suzuki GSX-R600	0.695	0.695	1:33.142	0
16	811	Michael Morgan	Autolite RIM Racing	Suzuki GSX-R600	2.425	1.729	1:33.386	0
17	966	Daniel Ortega	DanOrtegaRacing.com	Yamaha YZF-R6	2.582	0.157	1:33.764	0
18	72	Greg Gorman	The Way to Happiness Racing Team	Suzuki GSX-R600	3.222	0.640	1:33.273	0
19	81	Wes Humphryes	Humphryes Racing	Suzuki GSX-R600	52.154	48.932	1:35.359	0
20	250	Nadr Riad	Riad Racing	Yamaha YZF-R6	1:02.033	9.879	1:35.312	0
21	57	Cory West	Vesrah Suzuki	Suzuki GSX-R600	17 Laps	3 Laps	1:29.608	0
22	175	Sam Rozynski	Chronic Motorsports	Yamaha YZF-R6	13 Laps	4 Laps	1:35.594	0
23	55	Chris Fillmore	Vesrah Suzuki	Suzuki GSX-R600	10 Laps	3 Laps	1:30.172	0
24	15	Steve Rapp	Team Latus Motors Racing	Ducati 848	8 Laps	2 Laps	1:29.536	0
25	213	David White	Grant Smith`s Memory Racing	Kawasaki ZX-6R	31.515	31.515	1:32.796	0
26	6	Tommy Aquino	Team Graves Yamaha	Yamaha YZF-R6	5 Laps	3 Laps	1:29.140	0
27	197	Chase McFarland	Chase McFarland Racing	Buell 1125R	3 Laps	2 Laps	1:32.836	0
28	28	Alistair Douglas	Giant Racing	Triumph Daytona 675	1 Lap	2 Laps