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This weekend was a good one to be a Don Schumacher Motorcycle rider. Craig Treble knows that what he  lacks, teammate Chip Ellis makes up for and vice versa. In the final round at Memphis, Treble lacked for nothing as he scored his first win of the season and 26th overall by defeating Eddie Krawiec, whose Screamin’ Eagle Harley-Davidson broke in the final round. “It’s a privilege to be a part of this team,” Treble said in a post-press conference. “Chip Ellis is an awesome rider but struggled on the tree today. He’s a great rider and pretty darned good racer. “I’m not as good of a rider as he is, but maybe on Sunday I may be a better racer. If we combine our efforts, I think we can be some tough guys out here.” Ellis drew blood with an untouchable 6.910 elapsed time on Friday and Treble scored the knockout punch in the money run bringing his points ranking up to 8th, one spot behind Ellis who fouled in the first round. “A racer focuses and does his job,” Treble explained. “You have to hit the tree, your shift points and do everything right. Some of the smoothness I could work on. Chip is awesome in that department. I’m pretty good on the tree and he’s hurting there a little bit. If we combine our efforts, maybe we can come up with a dynamic duo.”  Treble admitted that much of the day he was in awe of the performance attributed to crew chief Steve Tartaglia’s tune-up. “That 6.91 pass shocked a lot of people,” Treble admitted. “He turned around and backed it up with a 6.92 that left me wondering where that came from. Chip is ultra smooth and a contributing factor to some of that elapsed time. I’m trying to do my part and that 6.98 … I don’t know where Steve Tartaglia pulled that one out from.” Treble said he established a personal best sixty-foot clocking four times over the course of the day in ending with a 1.052. His previous best was a 1.059. The Memphis triumph marked Treble’s third final round appearance of the season with runner-ups in Chicago and Norwalk. His victory in Memphis upped his career win total to 26.
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