World Supersport Testing: Yamaha Testing with Ellison, Rea and West

That is James Ellison, Gino Rea and Anthony West are testing the Yamaha YZF-R6 which brought Cal Crutchlow - now in World Superbike - the World Supersport title in 2009. Apparently, there is more! Martin Cardenas will also be testing the R6.

Ten Kate Honda is testing with Kenan Sofuoglu - already confirmed for the team in 2010 - and Michele Pirro and Maxime Berger.

And, Kawasaki is testing with Joan Lascorz, Katsuaki Fujiwara, Broc Parkes and David Salom.

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Qualifying Results from Daytona International Speedway - Moto-GT, AMA SuperSport National

First of all, a local guy - Josh Day on the Team E.S.P. Yamaha - to the Daytona track took the pole position in the AMA Pro SuperSport National race. The race does not award points but it does award a number 1 plate for the nation. Any AMA SuperSport competitor is allowed to run and plenty of good racers from all over are in attendance. Sunday will see the race and that final championship for the 2009 AMA SuperSport season.

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And, over in the Moto-GT series, Josh Hayes has decided to run a Westby Racing Yamaha R6 along with teammates Jeff Wood, Dane Westby and Dustin Meador. He was in town anyway to be with his wife, Melissa Paris, as she is set to compete at the Fall Cycle Scene Championship Cup Series - she has just returned from injury. Well, Hayes took pole for Sunday's race in the GT1 class. Martin Cardenas is right behind him on the Team Roadracingworld.com Suzuki GSX-R600. Over in GT2 Barrett Long took the pole position on the KRM Racing by Motocorse Ducati PS1000LE after he was only asked to ride this morning!

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Pegram - at 35 Years Young - Swept AMA Superbike at Heartland Park

Had to see it this weekend and I am glad I did! Larry Pegram and his Foremost Insurance/Pegram Racing Ducati team won both AMA Pro Racing Superbike events at Kansas' Heartland Park Topeka - a new addition to the AMA series' track list.

One of my favorite 'up and coming' racers, Martin Cardenas, managed to win a very hard-fought AMA Pro Racing Daytona SportBike race; however, that was the second race of the event. Danny Eslick pulled off the first win of the event with his Buell 1125R. (Buell, you see, is allowed to run 1125 c.c. machines to beat out the Japanese 600 c.c. competition - V-Twin versus Inline-4; funny how the AMA/Daytona people are also using Buells as pace bikes this year, coincidence?)

Well, have a look at the original article: http://tinyurl.com/msx9a8