Q: The Big Kahuna comes to an end, great weekend. Mat takes his seventh championship and Josh, you get the title of Big Kahuna. Talk about a race today, again, a perfect weekend. How did you shut out Melissa's injury from earlier today, what did she tell you?

Hayes: That's never easy, no one likes seeing someone they love get hurt. Melissa's a racer and she's tough too. When I saw her in the medical center she hadn't shed a tear yet. I heard she cussed everybody a little bit. She's tough, you know. When I got into this I knew part of being a motorcycle racer is sometimes you fall down, you break bones, things like that happen. Had she hit her head, something like that, it might have been a tougher story today but a broken leg is, is terrible, but it's part of this sport. As soon as we're done here I'm going to go check on my wife and see what we've got to do to make her comfortable. Had I not won today, it would have been really tough to show my face to her again after yesterday and I'm really glad I could do this, and do it for her. All of these guys have been riding great this weekend. Today's race was considerably faster than yesterday. Everybody was just riding good, the R1 was definitely the bike to have this weekend. Congratulations to these guys. Congratulations to Mat, he's a deserving champion. He's won all of these races and he deserves and I hate that he's going away because he's definitely someone that we learn from on the racetrack. Congratulations to him.

Q: Mat, again congratulations on a seventh championship, outstanding run. Talk about the race and what's going through your head as you win this title and head on to the next chapter in your life.

Mladin: It's nice to get it done and tie it up. That's about it really, we've done a lot of hard work at the start of the year and then, the last couple of months, been going through the motions. I realized a few weeks ago it's time to move on and I struggle to bring it to the table these days like I used to. These guys will battle it out from now on and into the future. It's been a great career and I'm really looking forward to being able to go for a run every day because I want to, not because I have to.

Q: Talk about this team that's given you a great bike, not just this season but all these years.

Mladin: These guys are fantastic. It's been a pretty amazing run. We've obviously won a lot of championships as a team over the last ten years. It's been pretty amazing from the first one in 1999 all the way through to this year with Ben winning a few, three in the last few years. It's hard to believe that that many will ever be won in 10 years again by one manufacturer. It's been nice to be part of it and part of building it. It's been good fun.

Q: Tommy, talk about some great battles you had with Ben and also how you feel about the champion teammate who you've raced alongside for a couple years.

Hayden: Definitely today was a lot better for me. Started from the beginning with a lot better start, got myself in a lot better position. My crew did a really good job overnight and definitely the biggest improvement we made all year from Saturday to Sunday. My hat's off to them. Definitely got me a bike I was a lot more comfortable on today, I was able to push and ride the way I wanted to. I was able to make some moves early and get into second and just had a second maybe at one time. I knew someone was right there and then I could start hearing Ben when he closed up on me. He got by and I was following him for a few laps and I thought I could get back by him and maybe I could run a better pace the last five or six laps and it kinda worked out. I was able to get by, stepped it up a little bit and got through traffic good. Then I was pretty smooth after that. Congratulations to Josh, wow, what an awesome weekend. Ben pushed the whole way and definitely to Mat. What an awesome career. He's been a great teammate, I've learned a lot. I've got big shoes to fill now, with him and Ben gone but I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully I can keep the tradition up and the standards that those guys have set in the future. Congratulations to him, what an awesome accomplishment and a great champion.

Q: Ben, you missed Superpole, rare, maybe the first time this season, but you gave us kind of a highlight reel in both races, charging through. How fun was that, or how aggravating was that knowing you had to pass so many guys to get up there?

Bostrom: Both. I didn't think I had much for Josh today, he was really, really unstoppable this weekend. Mat and Josh are pretty incredible here, and Tommy's had a lot of wins as well. I did enjoy the race actually, it was pretty hairball the first turn. The Yamaha was great, it went through the guys and by the time I got back up to second I had either used up myself or my tire. I don't usually get to race Tommy, that was enjoyable. Josh set sail. Mat was chillin out, like ?I've got this thing worked out and I've won the war.' I don't know, there's a lot going on in this series right now and I wish everyone would realize that everyone's got to be positive. It's a positive thing that brings the series together. If there are a lot of negative comments, it brings the series down and it turns away spectators. I've got a lot of people commenting ?I'm not going to the race to support this or that,' but the racing is fantastic. The worst thing about it is losing Mat Mladin, he's the greatest champion we've had in this sport and the benchmark for every one of us. It's the reason I'm riding this class, this year, and not the 600. I came to race him. That's the biggest loss to the sport. Everything else is great and I just wish that everyone would be more positive in the press and let it go. Congratulations to these guys, they all ran fantastic and I look forward to a good race with Mat in New Jersey.

Q: Mat, what's next for you. You said you want to spend a lot of time with your family, you've got the businesses, but what's next? What are you going to fill your time with?

Mladin: Honestly, I'm not thinking about it right now. It's important for me to spend some time with the family. As I've said before, I won my first national championship 28 years ago and I've since then either raced for a team in Motocross or Dirt Track or then Road Racing after a year off in '90. That's been a lot of time with expectations of getting out there and having to win races and it's going to be nice to get up in the morning and not have that expectation on your shoulders. For now, I don't care to think about the too distant future. Definitely spend a lot of time with the family and have a bit of fun for a little while.

Q: Do you consider this retiring, going out on your terms?

Mladin: I won the championship and as much as you'd like to keep winning races and try to go out with a bang and all the rest of it that, I guess, would be the fairy tale, as I've said before, the way I've conducted myself in the past, I've brought a lot to it, a lot of focus and determination and these days it's hard to bring. You're not going to win lots of races if mentally you're not in it, and your heart's not in it 100%. I've had my day and it's time for someone else.

Q: You've won the championship now and you've got two races left. Will you be able to bring it those last two races?

Mladin: I don't know, I'll tell you in couple of weeks.

Q: Mat, Janine was commenting to me that for the last 14 years now you've had pretty much endless summers. You've had summers in Australia and summers in America. Are you looking forward to winter?

Mladin: I am. In the end we're looking forward to getting home, both of us, and getting home to our family. We've missed, as much as a lot of people don't realize, we both have mothers and fathers and you don't see them that often. It's going to be nice, in a couple of weeks in New Jersey, my mom's going to come over and my sister. They were obviously a big part of my career in my early days and it's going to be nice to get home, and the kids to have their grandparents around and for Janine and I to dump the kids with the grandparents every now and then and go catch a movie.