AMA Racing News
American Motorcyclist Association
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October 1, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Ben
Bostrom wins 2008 AMA
Supersport Championship
DAYTONA
BEACH, Florida - Ben
Bostrom wrapped up the
2008 AMA Pro Honda Oils
Supersport Championship
presented by Shoei with
a solid second-place
finish in the last race
of the season.
The 34-year-old
Californian carried a
24-point championship
lead coming into Mazda
Raceway Laguna Seca. All
he needed was 12
points-17th position-to
put the title out of
newly crowned Formula
Xtreme champion Jake
Zemke's grasp.
Starting from pole
position, Bostrom's plan
was to watch the battle
up front
from a
safe distance. Sitting
in third, he had a
front-row seat for a
torrid battle for the
lead between teammates
Martin Cardenas and
Blake Young. When
Cardenas went off the
track on the last lap,
Bostrom inherited
second, within striking
distance of Young, but
couldn't make the pass.
Bostrom's path from dirt
track to professional
road racing was a smooth
transition via the AMA
Supertwins series, where
he won a race in 1995.
He secured the AMA
Superbike title in
1998.
Following a runner-up
AMA Superbike
performance in '99, he
went on to compete in
the Superbike World
Championship. In three
seasons and 107 races,
Bostrom took seven wins,
stood on the podium
another 14 times and
placed as high as third
in the World Superbike
Championship.
Returning
to AMA competition,
Bostrom combined his
dirt and tarmac skills
and prevailed in the
winner-take-all final
round of the 2004 AMA
Supermoto championship.
The new Supersport
champion wrapped up this
11-race series with six
poles, six wins and 10
podium finishes. Bostrom
now has 16 AMA
professional road racing
victories in the record
books.
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AMA Pro Racing series include the AMA Toyota
Motocross Championship presented by FMF, the
AMA Superbike Championship presented by
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and the AMA Pro ATV Championship.
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