News 18 May 2011

Burgess reflects on difficult weekend at Infineon AMA round

A string of misfortune including a bizarre snapped chain and a multi-bike crash ruled Jordan Burgess out from completing either of the two races at last weekends second round of the AMA Pro National Guard Superbike series at Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, California.

After a promising first race at Daytona only to be followed by a mechanical DNF in the second, the Rookie AMA Superbike rider from Australia was keen to redeem himself at the challenging Infineon circuit.

Gaining momentum through the qualifying sessions, the Team ADR FLY Racing rider was inside the top 15 before suffering a lowside through turn seven, effectively ending the session and placing him 16th on the grid.

Saturday afternoon’s race one was over within three laps when he suffered a snapped chain on the Suzuki GSXR1000, rendering the end of his race.

Burgess regrouped for Sunday’s race two, only to be caught up in a collision between Kawasaki’s J.D. Beach and T.Kasper’s BMW at Turn Two on the opening lap, which saw Jordy running straight over the Kawasaki superbike and losing control of his ADR machine.

”What more can you say than this is just one of those weekends you would rather forget,” commented Burgess after the race.

“The chain snap in race one was unfortunate and I just had to cop that one on the chin. The incident in race two was yet another disastrous mishap, in which i am glad we all walked away from.”

Burgess will now seek some redemption at round three of the series at Miller Park on 28-30 May.

“We just have to put this weekend behind us and focus on round three at Miller and try and get a favorable result to repay the team for their hard work thus far.”

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