Congratulations to Jake Zemke, good race, very nice ride.
Miguel Duhamel, what a competitor! Highsides, lands hard, jumps back up, runs over to his bike now missing a windshield and with a loose faceshield on his helmet, fires up the bike and gets back into the race. Excellent effort showing what a rider and competitor he is.
The Buell XBRR and the various teams need a lot of work. Although in earlier running Jeremy McWilliams was as high as 6th I think, at the end, out of 69 total starting motorcycles, the highest placing Buell was 52nd place.
And of course, what’s a race without an AMA controversy? After the one crash that brought out the pace car, you would figure that the driver and passenger of the pace car know what they are supposed to do, … you would figure. But instead of getting into the lineup with the leader behind the pace car, they get out there with Eric Bostrom and Miguel DuHammel behind them so everyone bunches up on 4th and 5th place and what was something like a 15 second gap behind the leader becomes almost a full lap of the track! Yamaha protested the results of the race but what can you really do at that point? Like I said earlier, if the AMA doesn’t get it together really soon, this is going to be a long season.
hoyt says
The Supercross race also had strong competitors. Chad Reed raced with a separated shoulder… & Stewart had a thrashing crash, but he still managed to finish strong.
The camera work for the Supercross was great — unfortunatley, Speed went to commercial break way too often. They need competition
Prester John says
IIRC, Buell mounted riders placed as high as 8th in Xtreme races during the 2005 season, riding unprotested machines derived from the production XB9R. The ’06 season is early, but this year’s Buell racers would have to be categorized as “disappointing”.
Tom
KRocket says
The AMA has got its troubles, that is for sure. With the confusing mix of Superbike, Superstock, Formula Xtreme and who races in what class the mess that occured during the 200 race may be a preview of what we have in store for this season. I just hope they have the resources to regroup and get it sorted for the racers and the fans.
aaron says
I thought the lead xbrr was doing quite well, for a guy that had little experience with the bike or the track to run 6th-8th while the bike was still right. that pitstop cost him a minute though, and I think the brakes weren’t working right afterwards. he slowed and then retired within the next few laps.
duhamel, what can you say?
and a guy named Oliver Jervis came 18th, kinda thrilling as he lives within .5km of me! (the next biggest celebrity around here is a killer whale) I’m not sure in he’s running a true formula xtreme bike this year, or a modded supersport bike. I think the latter, as he’s racing in something like 5 different series this year, and I think F Xtreme is an AMA exclusive.