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Article: Mladin: It's early in duel with Spies
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- May 9, 2008
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MAT MLADIN won a single-season record 12 out of 19 AMA Superbike
races in 2007 and finished no worse than fourth after the first
event of the year -- and he still came up just short of winning a
season championship.
But Mladin didn't exactly come into the 2008 season with a
mission to wrest the Superbike season title away from Suzuki
teammate and chief rival Ben Spies, who won the last race of the
year in September at Laguna Seca to capture the season points title
652-651 over the Australian.
"In this day and age, and having a bit of maturity on my side and
probably having a bunch of wins under my belt (66) and championships
(six) and stuff, I just can't get excited thinking about (the end ...