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Regional News: June 29, 2009

WERA Cycle Jam

PIRELLI/WERA SPORTSMAN EVENT AT ROAD ATLANTA RESULTS

A big thank-you goes out to the riders, officials, corner workers and spectators that came out to the Pirelli/WERA Road Atlanta Sportsman event this weekend, June 26-28, 2009.

Mother Nature kept us dry, but she baked us with sunshine and 90+ degree weather. Attendance was over 1400 folks through the weekend and the 251 riders gave them 711 reasons to cheer!

On Saturday the Vintage races saw more than normal participation and Doug Bowie won the 500GP and 350 GP races on his Ducati 250; Buff Harsh won the V2 on his Honda 350; Jim Hinshaw won Formula 500 and the Formula 2-Stroke on his Kawasaki 500 and 750 respectively; Tash Zarvalas won the V1 on his Honda 350; Wayne Shelton won V4 on his Yamaha 550; Joe Pomeroy won V6 Lightweight and V5 on his Yamaha 350; and Mark Morrow took the win in V3 on his Yamaha 350. Sunday Vintage winners were Ray Hickman in V6 and V7 Heavyweight on his Suzuki 750 and Scott Lindsay took the win in V7 Mediumweight on his Honda 600. Saturday’s Solo races saw Brett Bolton take the win in Mediumweight Novice; Matt Lynn won Mediumweight Expert; Ricky Ford won Lightweight Expert and Joseph Dempsey won Lightweight Novice. In the Heavyweight Solo Taylor Knapp won the Expert and Trever Townsend won the Novice race.

Sunday saw Matt Lynn win C Superbike Expert and David Podolsky taking first Expert in Heavyweight Twins Superstock and John Moore taking first Novice in HWTSS. Brett Bolton took first in C Superbike Novice; Taylor Knapp won Formula 1 Expert and Trever Townsend won Novice. D Superbike saw Chad Hinton take the Expert win and Greg Kuhlman the Novice win. Ricky Ford took Lightweight Twins Superstock Expert and Travis Richards too the Novice win. WERA's new E Superstock Class for the Kawasaki 250 saw 20 riders and got their own race with Chris Spencer winning on the Expert side and Jamie Spencer the Novice side. B Superbike Expert went to Chris Opie Caylor with Townsend taking another win in the Novice ranks. William Rhyne took the win in D Superstock Expert and Tim Nolan was the Novice winner. Ricky Ford continued his winning ways in the Lightweight Twins Superbike and Joe Dempsy got another win for the Novices. Taylor Knapp showed everyone around again in A Superbike Expert and Townsend followed suit for the Novices. 125GP saw young Xavier Zayat take his first WERA win and Max Perethian took the Clubman Expert win with Manabu Sato taking the Novice win. A Superstock saw Brian Stokes show Taylor Knapp that miles on Road Atlanta make a difference when he made a great pass in the last turn to take the A Superstock Expert win and Townsend won for the Novices. Bud Lawter came out to claim the Heavyweight Twins Superbike Expert win and John Butler took the Novice win. Joy Higa came out from Patterson, California to take the win in the Women’s Sup0erstock Class. Deidra Slough got the Novice win. Knapp came back to claim C Superstock Expert and James Sehringer got his win in C Superstock Novice. Lawter and Butler repeated their winning ways in Formula Two. Senior Superbike Heavyweight Expert went to Tim Hunt, Novice winner was Chris Steele and in the Mediumweight Van Salt took the Expert win and James Sehringer got his second win of the weekend. The final race of the day was B Superstock and Caylor got his second Expert win and Townsend capitalized his weekend with one more win for the Novices.

All the results are here on the web site and we look forward to seeing everyone again at Road Atlanta in October when the WERA Grand National Finals come in. The show will be on the 8th through the 11th of October.

Link: http://www.wera.com/results/showeventresults.asp?x=1098&rg=746165193