I thought I would shed some light on the Daytona 200 for this year and offer a few folks to watch. Ill edit this a few times before the race starts so refresh some. My hope is that my notes here make it more fun to watch. http://fanschoice.tv/ < here is where you got to watch. a few folks to watch during the race in no particular order.... Mark Rhodes < Mark won in CCS racing a wide variety of championships in his Armature year last year. Usually armature year is your first year racing after doing a bunch of track days. Mark won the FL region, Midwest region Central region. He won a bunch of races. He had to pull some strings to get to race in this race because he didn't have enough expert points to race. I have not fact checked myself but you can see points here http://ccsracing.us/archives.html Florida, Mid-Atlantic, Mid-West, SouthEast < Armature championships. Dude did a bunch of driving back and forth Jason Farrell is another to watch. From Shebogyan Jason helps and coaches many of us expert racers. He is a great guy and offers help to many of us. Many pay him for coaching too. I have and have videos from 2011 with him coaching me. Jason will be up front on a Kawasaki http://www.farrellperformance.com/racing-team/jason-farrell/ Jason just got the Guinness book of world records 2016 for longest wheelie on ice last month. https://www.facebook.com/frank.babuska < watch Frank brake late. I saw Frank ride Black Hawk Farms for the first time and get down into the 1:11's after I tell people that track specifically is hard to break get fast there because it's so technical. https://www.facebook.com/GEOFF-MAY-79637702922/ < Goeff May is from Gainsville GA near Atlanta .... you will see riding STT often and doing special coaching. I crashed one day in T4 at Road Atlanta chasing him LOL broke fifth metacarpal in 2010 at Road Atlanta Geoff has poll position twice in a row this time being the second. http://www.roadracingworld.com/news...a-200-pole-position-for-second-straight-year/ Stefano Mesa is one to watch too. He won the overall points in the FL division CCS racing. He came around me at Daytona onece and I heard his tires skipping. ERR ERR ERR literally hopping into the turn.
Geoffs from Gainesville GA not Atlanta....just a FYI And Fanschoice needs to get this shit going...10 after the start time and still no feed.... Sad
Marc... from the chicaqo perspective Gainsville is Atlanta but I know what you mean. I am from Lilburn/Stone Mountain and went to Parkview HS BTW
That's Jason Farrel in front and Mark Rhodes is not far back. Great for first year in expert. Charley Mavros usually does not ride 600 racebikes. He is not too far back
Well it's it's own city and 4 counties away.... Kinda like saying Chattanooga is Nashville! We will agree its North Ga how about that! He's looking good so far...
I missed that. Will watch again later I suppose. Stefano Mesa had a long pit stop. Barns PIT was fast. Guess it's best statistically to wait as long as possible to pit stop. Forklift is some redneck shit LOL
I forgot about Wyatt Farris on a Yamaha built by TSE. Those guys build/clean/maintain my suspension. http://www.tracksidesuspension.com/
Well I was rooting for Farrell, but it seams Daytona just won't let him compete. Not sure what the early retirement was for, but from the rumblings on FB it appears to be a blown engine
Since Jason has retired, I'll be hopping on the Wyatt bandwagon...my bike is up at their shop right now waiting for them to return from Daytona to get all my suspension done.
Rooting for Geoff all the way! Hats off to Barney, one hell of a performance for anyone, let alone a 48 year old! Job well done!
Nope. A ZX6R in 9th, one in 12th, a Ducati in 16th and another ZX6R in 19th. Aside from that the other 16 bikes in the top 20 were R6's.
Which seems odd to me. In MotoAmerica it's the same, pretty much all R6's...but you look internationally in other countries and especially in World SSP and there are barely any. Mostly everyone is on Hondas or Kawasakis, with some MV's in the mix now in the last few years. Here in the US it's like 70% Yamaha, 20% Triumph, and 10% others.