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Residents of Independence, MO were treated to a full weekend of Speedway Ice Racing when Extreme International Ice Racing came to the Independence Events Center this past weekend for a two-night double header.

Read the article by The Examiner‘s Jeff Martin HERE.

Full Results from XIIR rounds 6 and 7:

Round 6 Independence, MO
Jan 2, 2010

Position/Rider/Points
Heat 1:
1 Charlie Venegas 3, 2 Anthony Barlow 2, 3 James Mann 1, 4 Kell Kerrigan 0

Heat 2:
1 Shawn McConnell 3, 2 Russell Green 2, 3 Jim Terchila 1, 4 Nathan Siegel 0

Heat 3:
1 Eddie Martinez 3, 2 Alan Rush 2, 3 Rhys Naylor 1, 4 Jim Terchila (R) 0

Heat 4:
1 Charlie Venegas 3, 2 Russell Green 2, 3 Jim Terchila 1, 4 Eddie Martinez (R) 0

Heat 5:
1 Shawn McConnell 3, 2 Anthony Barlow 2, 3 Rhys Naylor 1, 4 Nathan Siegel 0

Heat 6:
1 Kell Kerrigan 3, 2 James Mann 2, 3 Eddie Martinez 1, 4 Alan Rush 0

Last Chance Qualifier: (No points – Top 3 finishers make main event)
1 Anthony Barlow, 2 Kell Kerrigan, 3 Russell Green, 4 James Mann, 5 Alan Rush, 6 Jim Terchila

Main Event:
1 Shawn McConnell 10, 2 Kell Kerrigan 7, 3 Anthony Barlow 5, 4 Russell Green 3, 5 Eddie Martinez 2, 6 Charlie Venegas 1

Points for Night:
Shawn McConnell 16, Kell Kerrigan 10, Anthony Barlow 9, Charlie Venegas 7, Russell Green 7, Eddie Martinez 6, James Mann 3, Rhys Naylor 2, Alan Rush 2, Jim Terchila 2, Nathan Siegel 0

Round 7 Independence, MO.
Jan 3, 2010

Position/Rider/Points
Heat 1:
1 Charlie Venegas 3, 2 Shawn McConnell 2, 3 Kell Kerrigan 1, 4 Anthony Barlow 0

Heat 2:
1 James Mann 3, 2 Russell Green 2, 3 Eddie Martinez 1, 4 Jim Terchila 0

Heat 3:
1 Nathan Siegel 3, 2 Alan Rush 2, 3 Jim Terchila (R) 0, 4 Rhys Naylor DNF

Heat 4:
1 Charlie Venegas 3, 2 Russell Green 2, 3 Eddie Martinez 1, 4 Alan Rush (R) 0

Heat 5:
1 Anthony Barlow 3, 2 James Mann 2, 3 Jim Terchila 1, 4 Rhys Naylor 0

Heat 6:
1 Shawn McConnell 3, 2 Kell Kerrigan 2, 3 Alan Rush 1, 4 Nathan Siegel 0

Last Chance Qualifier: (No points – Top 3 finishers make main event)
1 Anthony Barlow, 2 Russell Green, 3 Kell Kerrigan, 4 Alan Rush, 5 Nathan Siegel, 6 Jim Terchila

Main Event:
1 Charlie Venegas 10, 2 Shawn McConnell 7, 3 Kell Kerrigan 5, 4 Alan Rush 3, 5 Nathan Siegel 2, 6 James Mann 1

Points for Night:
Venegas 16, McConnell 12, Kerrigan 8, Barlow 6, Green 6, Mann 6, Siegel 3, Rush 3, Martinez 2, Terchila 1, Naylor 0

Standings after 7 of 19 rounds:

For more information about Extreme International Ice Racing, visit XIIR.com.

Josh Hayes (No. 4 Yamaha Motor Corp. USA Yamaha R1), Josh Herrin (No. 8 Team Graves Yamaha YZF-R6) and Yamaha doubled up to close out the 2009 AMA Pro Road Racing season with a pair of repeat race wins Sunday in the AMA Pro Superbike Championships on Thunderbolt Raceway at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP).

Hayes won his fourth straight and seventh overall AMA Pro American Superbike presented by Parts Unlimited race of the year while Herrin also went four for four with AMA Pro Daytona SportBike presented by AMSOIL victories.  Both riders moved to second in their respective series’ championships after winning the Saturday finals and then locked the runner-up positions down in Sunday’s season-ending races.

For the second-straight day, Hayes had a classic battle with recently crowned 2009 American Superbike Champion Mat Mladin (No. 1 Rockstar/Makita Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000).  This time Mladin’s teammate Tommy Hayden(No. 22 Rockstar/Makita Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000) was also in the mix with each rider taking turns up front before Hayes took the lead for good on Lap 15.  The race saw seven official at-the-line lead changes between the three riders with the total more than doubling when multiple lead swaps within a lap were taken into account.

“It was one of those deals where I just tried to keep myself close to the front,” Hayes said.  “I rode as hard as I could the whole race.  I had to keep putting together good laps to see if I could keep the pressure on.  The Yamaha was great.  It was a great bike to ride this weekend.  I’m really proud of how the end of the season has come around.  Congratulations to Mat on his career.  Like I said on the podium, I only hope that I can achieve half of what he’s done in his career.”

Mladin was making his final American Superbike start in a record-setting career and raced true to form before gearbox issues emerged in the later part of the race.  Mladin is retiring with an unmatched total of seven AMA Pro American Superbike championships and a record 82 career victories.

“Today was a really good race,” Mladin said.  “I felt pretty good for most of it.  I really didn’t want to be in second place and I was trying to lead and was doing as much as I could from the front.  We put it in as much as we could.  About 10 laps to go, I couldn’t get the thing in fifth gear.  I had to go straight through to sixth and in the end we just couldn’t keep up.”

Hayes crossed the finish line 2.254 seconds ahead Mladin while Aaron Yates (No. 23 Brand Jordan Suzuki GSX-R1000) was third for the second straight day. Mladin passed Yates on the last lap to take second.

“It feels really good to be up here and finish the year out with a few decent finishes,” said Yates, who posted his sixth podium finish of the season.  “Racing with Josh and Mat, it feels good to be up here and running with them.  Mat definitely wasn’t joking about it not getting into fifth gear back there.  It was twice running up through the bridge there that we got pretty close.  I thought I was going to run right over him or into him.  I got by Mat on the front straight and he came by me on that last lap, came up beside me, got on the brakes and I thought he was done, then he just slipped off to the inside.”

Three-time 2009 race winner Larry Pegram (No. 72 Foremost Insurance/Pegram Racing Ducati 1098R) finished fourth to improve on Saturday’s fifth place showing while Neil Hodgson (No. 100 Corona Extra Honda CBR1000RR) had his best result since finishing second in the Daytona opener to round out the top five.

Pegram jumped to fourth in the final American Superbike standings with 347 points, one spot behind Hayden, who locked down third with 373 points.  Hayden stepped up to challenge Hayes in the closing laps of the race but was uninjured when he lowsided after just taking the lead a little under three laps from the finish.

“I really wanted to win a race before the year was over and I wanted to try and get second in the championship, and I knew that one would take care of the other,” Hayden said.  “I just made a little mistake, went in a corner a little too hot and lost the front. It’s a shame. On the one hand, I’m bummed and on the other hand, I left it all out there and that was one thing I wanted to make sure and do today. We learned a lot and we’re looking forward to next year.”

Ben Bostrom (No. 2 Yamaha Motor Corp. USA Yamaha R1) was also uninjured when he lowsided two laps into the race, but he still finished fifth in the final American Superbike championship standings with 333 points.

Sunday’s American Superbike final and other action from the New Jersey AMA Pro Superbike Championships can be seen in late-night coverage tonight on SPEED tonight at 12:30 a.m. ET (9:30 p.m. PT).
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• AMA Pro National Guard American Superbike presented by Parts Unlimited – Race One
• AMA Pro National Guard American Superbike presented by Parts Unlimited – Race Two
• AMA Pro Daytona SportBike presented by AMSOIL – Race One
• AMA Pro Daytona SportBike presented by AMSOIL – Race Two
• AMA Pro SuperSport presented by Shoei
• AMA Pro SunTrust Moto-GT1
• AMA Pro SunTrust Moto-GT2