Continual rain showers throughout the day at Virginia International Raceway have forced race to reschedule today’s round of the AMA Chevy Trucks US Superbike Championship to tomorrow morning.

Officials tried desperately to complete the day’s program, but yet another rain shower hit the circuit moments before the scheduled start of the Superbike race. The wet surface, along with remnants of an oil spill left after an incident during the preceding Supersport event prompted officials to make their decision.

The Superbike national, round 16 of the championship, has now been rescheduled to run tomorrow morning and will run over 20 laps instead of the original 28. The remaining FX and 250cc Grand Prix races will run after the Superbike race.

Earlier in the weekend Australian Mat Mladin was his tenth Superbike national of the year after winning yesterday’s 28-lap race by 2.093 seconds from American Honda’s Miguel DuHamel.

Mladin’s win, his 24th career victory in the championship, has seen him extend his points advantage at the top of the table to 43 as second placed Aaron Yates completed yesterday’s race in sixth position.

There is one double-header round of the championship remaining after tomorrow’s rain delayed race is held, with the series heading to Alabama for the first time to take on the new Barber Motorsports Park course on September 20 - 21.