Velocity, Suzuki & Hyperpro Suspension Smother the Field at sweltering Norwalk
For the second time this season, the team wins all three classes entered!!!
Pro Street - Hayabusa - WIN!
Mike Slowe .159 rt 7.552 et 192.91 mph
Super Street - Hayabusa - WIN!
Mike Slowe .128 rt 8.480 et 170.88 mph
1000 Supersport - GSXR-1000 - WIN!
Richard Gadson .112 9.214 et 152.50 mph
Saturday’s qualifying at AMA/Prostar’s VHR Cyclefest at Norwalk Raceway Park in Norwalk, Ohio was brutally hot and humid. The Velocity/Suzuki team’s blue pit canopies held the heat under them like a brick oven. Barry Henson and his team pondered going to the local TSC store for some “really big” fans but developed a better solution: finish their work quickly and spend the rest of the weekend in the air conditioned motor home. That strategy worked, and the team calmly raced to three wins in all three classes entered, a repeat of the feat accomplished at Atlanta in April. Fast Mikey Slowe scored two wins over Phil Stoll in Mickey Thompson Pro Street and Help Me Ride Super Street, and Richard Gadson beat rival Vince Woska Jr. in Lockhart Phillips 1000 Supersport. "We were actually so relaxed that we didn’t even need the fans", said Slowe.
“We smothered it out,” agreed Henson, who might have added that they smothered their opponents as well.
“It’s been a good weekend as far as working on the bikes,” said Slowe. “It was soft. This was the first weekend where all the guys were just sittin’ around lookin’ for something to do. It was cool, man.”
Cool may not be the right word to apply to such a hot weekend, but indeed it was unusual to not see the three team bikes constantly surround by Velocity’s blue shirted crew. At times there was nobody outside working on the Velocity bikes at all. “There was between 7 and 10 in the morning!” said Henson. “But it was a pretty good weekend right from the get-go. We didn’t have any major problems.”
Maintaining Velocity’s Momentum into Indy
“It was an awesome weekend, that’s all you can say,” finished Henson. True enough, the three Velocity Suzukis in the Norwalk winners circle was an awesome display of dominance. Barry, Mike, Richard and the entire team plan to continue that dominance when the AMA/Prostar series next races at Indianapolis Raceway park on August 12-13.
Barry and the boys thanked American Suzuki, Velocity Racing, Ward Performance, Falicon, Micron Exhaust,
Vanson Leathers, APE, J.E. Pistons, Marvic, Catalyst Racing Composites, Motul, 
