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Article: Suzuki's Spies, Mladin run in different circles.
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- Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2007
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Byline: Curtis Pashelka
May 18--This is what a rivalry is supposed to be like.
One is a clean-cut and soft-spoken all-American boy who is the sport's emerging star. The other is the foreign-born, sometimes politically incorrect veteran, whose longtime dominance was interrupted last year by his younger rival.
Ben Spies and Mat Mladin have been the best riders in AMA Superbike for over two years. But what has made the rivalry, which comes to Infineon Raceway on Saturday and Sunday for the Kawasaki AMA Superbike Showdown, so intriguing to casual fans is the personal story line.
Despite being teammates for Yoshimura Suzuki, Spies and Mladin ...