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20 Mar 2012, 17:07 (Ref:3045463) | #1 | |||||
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2012 AMA Superbike
no domestic thread as yet but I watched the Daytona races from this past weekend
In the big classes, the first race was dominated by Josh Hayes of the factory Graves Yamaha team, winning by 7 seconds over Blake Young's factory Yoshimura Suzuki. A lot of one-rider crashes behind them. Quote:
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In the Daytona 200, a privateer of all things won, and legitimately too as we was up front all day leading 41 of 57 laps. Carl Pascarella of Project One Atlanta won in a one-off on board a Yamaha. The bike went into victory lane with not a single Yamaha or Graves sticker on it (if you want to read an amusing press release catch Yamaha's post-Daytona one, they acknowledge Pascarella and that he was on a Yamaha, but then give the next two paragraphs on their factory riders a lot more ink and those riders talk about how their races went). Two guys to feel bad for here are defending champ Jason DiSalvo and Dane Westby. Westby's last pit stop the front tire change did not go well and put him 30 seconds back after running with the leaders the whole time. DiSalvo's Triumph had some issue on lap 14 that led him to pit early after travelling around the track slow, once back on track there was no issue but he was some 40 seconds back. He caught up to the leaders on the final lap of the race and looked like he would slingshot by Pascarella to win but Pascarella drafted off a lapper to remain in the lead at the line. The four there at the finish were these two along with Beaubier (factory Graves Yamaha) and Cardenas. 12 finished on the lead lap out of 44 starters. Quote:
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23 Mar 2012, 17:25 (Ref:3047184) | #2 | ||
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No shout out for Elena Myers winning supersport Race 2?
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23 Mar 2012, 21:17 (Ref:3047271) | #3 | ||
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Not really, AMA leaves me cold dude sorry. Good result, but over here noone cares sadly.
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No Honda's in 2012 either...
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26 Mar 2012, 05:44 (Ref:3048473) | #5 |
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Just saw the Daytona 200 finish. That was unbelievable.
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26 Mar 2012, 08:59 (Ref:3048539) | #6 | ||
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Kinda weird, I ahve seen so many close finishes at Daytona now, on the line etc, but the rest of the race is so very American, pitstops, tons of slow traffic! lol
Shame they ruined it by not allowing Superbikes, was a great time in the 90's when you had factory bikes being tested there and then entries into the race. |
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