Event No. 6 / K & N SuperNationals / June, 16 - 19 / Englishtown, N.J.

Mike Berry took his MB Precision Machining Pro Stock Motorcycle into eliminations at the K & N Filters SuperNationals, laying down the fastest run by a Suzuki in the opening round, only to be stopped by Ryan Schnitz who was busy setting low elapsed time of the weekend.

 “We finally work hard enough to be the best Suzuki of the session, only to run into someone who is close to re-setting the track record,” said Berry. “We had a pretty good weekend going until we ran into Schnitz on the Harley.”

 Berry started off great in Englishtown, using qualifying runs of 7.212/183.15 and 7.167/186.51 to land in the No. 7 spot after Friday qualifying was finished.

 “We ran real well right away and then just kept at it by slowly changing the set-up to match the weather conditions,” said Berry.

 A better 7.150 / 185.43 pass Saturday morning verified the Englishtown tune-up before a final 7.175/186.69 lap Saturday afternoon. At the end of qualifying, the MB Precision Machining Suzuki sat in the No. 10 slot in the 16 bike field.

 But it was the Sunday round one elimination run that Berry will remember from Old Bridge Township Raceway Park.

 Even with a great .018 to .078 reaction time advantage from the Berry machine, it would be Schnitz who reached the finishline first, by a slight .052 of-a-second.

 “Our 7.131 was best of session and third best of eliminations for the Suzuki’s, and I am pretty happy about that. I am a bit surprised this motor is working so well considering it was thrown together at the track, but when it runs like it did this weekend it gets us pretty excited for the next race.”