National Guard Jordan Suzuki’s Roger Lee Hayden takes his first superbike win of his career, while Josh Hayes crashes and remounts to finish 12th; EBR’s Danny Eslick second over Yoshimura Suzuki’s Blake Young
HOMESTEAD, FL, SEPT 22 – Monster Energy Graves Yamaha’s Josh Hayes will have to wait another day to clinch his third consecutive AMA Superbike title, but he’s OK with it. The runaway leader of the championship crashed, remounted and finished 12th in the race on Saturday, keeping alive the fading hopes of Yoshimura Suzuki’s Blake Young, who had a perfect opportunity to capitalize on the rare Hayes’ mistake. Instead he got into an emotional battle with Team Hero’s Danny Eslick, but for second place. And he didn’t win that one either.
National Guard Jordan Suzuki’s Roger Hayden was at a loss for words after winning his first AMA Superbike race, and first race win of any kind in five years. Hayden was in front of Hayes when the Yamaha rider crashed in Homestead’s turn six, Hayden having taken the lead from Young on the second lap. With Hayes out of the picture, the two Suzuki riders swapped the lead until the fifth lap when Hayden tightened his grip on it.
Within two laps he had nearly a two second lead that would continue to grow, blossoming to 7.709 seconds on the 17th of 23 laps before he backed off to win by 5.070 seconds.
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