Rome, GA – On day three of the premixed AMA Superbike/World Superbike event at Utah’s Miller Motorsports Park, Blake Young nailed the holeshot in the AMA Superstock race on his Pirelli shod M4 EMGO Suzuki, leading the entire pack of 29 big-bore bikes for the first lap, when he then discovered that there was a difference of opinion.

While crossing the line after that lap, the two-toned flag displayed for Young’s personal interest indicated that others present, such as the AMA officials, considered his start a tad overly zealous. Two laps later Young did a drive through down the longest pit lane on the North American Continent, then fought his way back to a credible eleventh-place finish. Young said, “The grid box was different than usual and I wasn't lined up in it like I thought I was. I thought I was still in it when the flag dropped but I was later shown I wasn't. I rode upset for awhile then I calmed down and did what I could.”

Also in Superstock, Pirelli riders finished fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth, those places earned by David Anthony, Robertino Pietri, Chris Ulrich and Ryan Elleby, all on Suzuki GSX-R1000s and all in that order. Pietri and Ulrich are teammates with Roadracingworld.com, while Anthony and Elleby are single rider efforts. The Superstock race was won by Geoff May. With Ulrich never finishing a 2008 Superstock race lower than seventh, he is now fourth in points, followed by teammate Pietri, Young and Anthony, in fifth, sixth and seventh. Scott Jensen and Elleby round out the top ten in ninth and tenth, despite Elleby not competing in the class at Daytona.

Following having turned in the fastest lap in Friday’s Supersport practice, Attack Kawasaki’s Steve Rapp put his ZX-6R on the front row for Sunday’s Supersport final, in the number-four spot. Meanwhile, Blake Young put his M4 EMGO Suzuki GSX-R600 on row two in box number seven, looking forward to a super start for Sunday’s Supersport final.

In Superpole for World Superbike, where Pirelli is the spec-tire, the AMA outer-course lap record was broken by five different riders, and ultimately by within a few hundredths of a full second. Earning the pole for Sunday’s SBK races was Carlos Checa on the Hannspree/Ten Kate Honda. Second on the grid is Max Neukirchner riding for Alstare Suzuki, with third going to Troy Bayliss of the Ducati Xerox team. The AMA is using the longest of Miller’s courses while SBK is using the outer course, as used by the AMA in all previous events.

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