Hodgson second, Hayden third after photo finish...

Rockstar / Makita Suzuki's Mat Mladin has won the AM Pro American Superbike race held as part of Daytona Bike Week. This is his seventh Daytona superbike win.

Second placed Neil Hodgson (Corona Extra Honda) harried Mladin for much of the race before a photo-finish with third placed Tommy Hayden (Rockstar / Makita Suzuki). Larry Pegram (Ducati) was a distant fourth.

Mladin: "Obviously it's nice to get any win. I sort of tried to go at the start, but I just couldn't get down to the sort of lap times that I really thought I may be able to. Obviously the guys were close enough coming out of the chicane to be able to pull past. About half race, there wasn't really anything happening out there, so I just thought I'd try and get back to the front and push as hard as I could, and at least try and have a bit of a gap leading out of the chicane. I think that's what happened."

Hodgson: "Mat had no advantage at all, machinery-wise. He rode a really good race and didn't make any mistakes, and pulled it at the last five laps. But yeah, I'm pleased, pleased with second. It was really close, obviously. It always is here. I was just thinking on the way here, I passed Roger Hayden last year on the last lap, and I beat him by the same amount, like nothing. So I'm sorry to the Hayden family for that."

Hayden: "It's a completely new starting procedure. There's no boards. I guess we go when the light goes off, I didn't know. I specifically read the rulebook last night, because there was stuff yesterday in the riders' meeting, and stuff that I wasn't aware of.  And I thought I'd already read it once, and somehow I keep skipping the starting part, I guess, because I didn't know what we were supposed to do.  I was 10th, I think, in Turn One. So that's something I have to figure out. My fault."

In the AMA Pro Supersport race, victory went to Tyler Odom (Honda CBR600RR), with Joey Pascarella (Suzuki GSX-R600) second and James Wikle (Suzuki GSX-R600) third.