Minutes after claiming the Superstock crown, Hacking threw his leg over his soon-to-be #1-plated YZF R6 and ran away with the Supersport final as well.

Furthering his remarkable season record, it was Hacking’s 13th combined win of the year in only 19 attempts. The other six results were runner-up finishes.

Hacking fought an early duel with Team Kawasaki’s Roger Hayden, who was extremely strong coming down the hill and setting up his entrance into Turn 1. Every time Hayden would make his way into first, however, Hacking would simply blow past him on the back straight as Hayden’s ZX-6RR was showing early signs of problems to come.

On lap five Hacking ended Hayden’s challenge for the lead, opening up a big enough of a gap to prevent the Kentuckian from mounting any additional Turn 1 heroics. ‘The Bulldog’ then cleared off and left his Kawasaki-mounted rival to worry about the fast approaching Team M4 EMGO Suzuki duo of Geoff May and Michael Barnes.

“That Superstock championship was a big weight on my shoulders and once we got that situated with I was able to go into the Supersport race totally relaxed,” Hacking said. “This is getting a little crazy. I’m going to have to sit back and take it all in. To have a season like this is incredible. It’s almost like a dream. It’s so unreal, but it’s real.”

The fading Hayden was dropped by local hero May on lap 9 and then dispatched to fourth after a minor tussle with Barnes two laps later.

Hayden’s day would get worse, however, as he slowed coming down the hill at the conclusion of lap 12 and retired a short time later.

May and Barnes’ 2-3 was the second consecutive double-podium Supersport finish for the M4 EMGO Suzuki team.

May’s runner-up finish moves him into second in the championship standing. “It feels real good. I feel like my guys deserve it. We had a little problem at Miller where the handlebar came off on the first lap. To get only 24th after having to come in for a pitstop really hurt us. We’ve been struggling back since then, just trying to scratch and get as many points as we can. It feels good and hopefully that’s where we end up at the end of the year. That’s the gameplan. If you can’t win it, you might as well get second.”

The quick-starting Barnes, who actually led the opening lap, said, “I had to pick it up once Roger and Geoff had passed me. I thought, ‘I can’t let this happen.’ So I picked it up and it was kind of easy to get by Roger because his bike was kind of going south. And then I was just trying to get with Geoff and he was putting together some real good laps. I had a couple moments and after trying so hard I kind of used up what we had. It was just a matter of trying to put together some real good laps at the end which I did.

“I can’t just thank these guys enough for putting together such a solid team. These bikes are incredible. I’m looking forward to going back to Ohio because it’s kind of like we’ve tested there. We’re going back there with some data and I’m planning on getting the holeshot again.”

The remainder of the top ten was filled with mini-battles for position outside of Danny Eslick’s lonely ride to fourth on Ben Spies’ factory Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R600.

Attack Kawasaki’s Ben Attard and Damon Buckmaster finished close together in fifth and sixth, respectively, after getting the better of MPT Racing’s Blake Young, who ran off in 10 on the final lap.

Young got back on track quickly enough to salvage seventh, while Michael Beck finished just fractions of a second in front of fellow Graves Yamaha-backed teenager, Josh Herrin, to claim eighth.

Safety First Suzuki’s Tony Meiring overcame a stiff challenge from Arclight’s Jeff Wood to grab the final spot in the top ten.

The entire pack will attempt to prevent Hacking from tying Miguel DuHamel’s single-season Supersport consecutive wins record (eight) at the Mid-Ohio finale.