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and it didn't work. I don't know. ·This (Showa suspension) is what's on the production bike and it's all Japanese stuff. This is what they want on it. I talked them into putting the brakes on it from last year because they're a lot better (the APs vs. the Tokicos that come on the bike). I don't know what it's going to take to get the Ohlins back." l:N Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida Results: March 9,1997 (Round 2 of 10) SUPERBIXE QUALIFYING,!. Scott Russell (1:48.999/117.579 mph); 2. Colin &lwards II (1:49.274); 3. Doug Chandler 0:49.409); 4. Miguel DuHamel (1,50.193); S. Pascal Picotte (1:50.256); 6. Tom Kipp (I:SO.757); 7. La"}' Pegram (1:50.921); 8. Steve Crevier (1:51.180); 9. Mat MJadin (I~1281); 10. Gerald Rothman Jr. (1:52.042); 11. Chn. Carr (1:52.246); 12. Tommy Hayden (1:52.579); 13. Aaron Yates (1:53.199); 14. Dave Sadowski (1:53.935); 15. Michael Taylor (1:54.254); 16. Doug Polen (1:54.456); 17. Eric Moe (1:54.635); 18. Paul Harrell (1:55.034); 19. Eric Wood (I :55.665); 20. Tripp Nobles (1:56.245); 21. John Ashmead (I :56.282); 22. Michael Bames (1 :56.305); 23. Kevin Graham (I :56.766); 24. Mark Miller (1:56.982); 25. Quenni King (1:57.046); 26. Richard Alexander Jr. (1:57.264); 27. James Milroy Jr. (1:57.753); 28. james Randolph (1:57.855); 29. Ken Krebs (1:58.059); 30. Mario DuHamel (1:58.264); 31. John Jacobi (1:58.367); 32. Christopher Rankin (1,58.533); 33. Dale Kieffer (1:58550); 34. Dax Snow (1:58.602); 35. Roger Bell n (1:58.766); 36. Ricky Orlando (1:58.833); 37. David McGrath (1:58.854); 38. Mike Krynock (1,58.991); 39. Paul etterstrom (1:59.153); 40. B..... Metzger (1:59.195); 41. David Kieffer (1:59.336); 42. Mike Walsh (1:59.416); 43. James Dickenson (1:59.458); 44. Anthony Faria (1 :59.905); 45. Daniel Bailey (2:00,128); 46. Bill Zearley (2:00.136); 47. Richard Shaw (2:00.227); 48. Brian Gibbs (2:00.306); 49. Stephen Cooke (2:00.369); 50. Calvin Rayborn III (2:00.41S); S1. William Himmelsbach (2:01.121); 52. Seth Hahn (2:01.152); 53. Jimmy Moore (2:01.296); 54. Jeffrey Jennings (2:01.592); 55. James Eberhart (2:01.835); 36. Dean Mizelal (2.-01.976); 57. Steve Patterson (2:02.079); 58. Akiharu Shigeno <2:02.281); 59. Micah Stevenson (2:02.760); 60. luke Yarbrough (2,02.916); 61. Doug Gross (2,03.053); 62. Jeff Kramer (2:03.668); 63. John Blessed (2:03.703); 64. Karim Bab.c (2,04.382); 65. Tom D5eson (2:04.536); 66. Brian' Lehleld. (2:05.230), 67. . her Blackston (2:05284); 68. Scott Landis (2:05.610); 69. eve Vlasblom (2:05.639); 70. Scotl Harwell (2:06.279); 71. John Spitulski (2:06.462); 72. Jose Magallanes (2:06.788); 73. Stephen Tuel (2:07.289); 74. Patrick Scotl Weekley (2:08.082); 75. Scott Vanscolk (2:08.333); 76. Jamie Wells (2:09.542); 77. Joseph Santa Maria (2:10.105); 78. Frank Stroman (2:11.288); 79. Marco Martinez (2:11.324). DAYTONA 200 BY ARM, 1. Scotl Russell (Yam); 2. Doug Chandler (Kaw); 3. Colin Edwards II (Yam); 4. Steve Crevier (Han); S. Pascal Picotte (Suz); 6. Tom Kipp (Yam); 7. Miguel DuHamel (Hon); 8. Larry Pegram (Suz); 9. Aaron Ya'" (Suz); 10. Paul Harrell (Yam); 11. David Sadowski (Suz); 12. Eric Moe (Kaw); 13. John Jacobi (Suz); 14. Ricky Orlando (Suz); 15. David McGrath (Suz); 16. Oax Snow (Suz); 17. Brett Metzger (Suz); 18. Stephen Cooke (Duc); 19. James Eberhart (Suz); 20. Chris Rankin, (Suz); 21. Mike Walsh (Yam); 22, Mario DuHamel (5uz); 23. Anthony Faria Jr. (502); 24. Kevin Graham (Kaw); 25. Roger Bell U (5uz); 26, Seth Hahn (Suz); 27. Karim Babic (Suz); 28. Mike Krynock (Kaw); 29. James Randolph (Suz); 30. Jeff Kramer (Suz); 31. Micah Stevenson (Suz); 32, Scott Harwell (Suz); 33. Richard Shaw (Yam); 34. Ken Krebs (Suz); 35. Doug Gross (Due); 36. Christopher Blockston (Suz); 37. Stephen Tuel (Suz); 38. Seotty Vanscoik (Suz); 39. Joseph Santa Maria (Yam); 40. Steve VlasbJom (Yam); 41. Chris Carr (H-D); 42. Patrick Scott Weeldey (Suz); 43. Dale Kieffer (Suz); 44. Akiharu Shigeno (S!>z); 45. Dean Mizdal' (Suz), 46. Paul Netterstrom (Kaw); 47. John Spitulski (Kaw); 48. Frank Stroman (Kaw); 49. Scotl Landis (Suz); SO. Brian Lehleldl (Suz); 51. James Milroy Jr. (Kaw); 52. John Ashmead (Kaw); 53. Marco Martinez (Kaw); 54. Jeff Jennings (Due): 55. Jimmy Moore (Suz); 56. Luke Yarbrough (Yam); 57. Tom Dyreson (Suz); 58. Michael Taylor (Kaw); 59. Tripp Nobles (H-D); 60. Brian Gibbs (Suz); 61. Eric Wood (Kaw); 62. Jamie Wells (Suz); 63. Gerald Rothman Jr. (Duc); 64. Michael Barnes (H-D); 65. John Blessed (Suz); 66. Mat MJacfin (Due); 67. James Dickenson (Suz); 68. Daniel Bailey (Suz); 69. Mark Miller (Suz); 70. Bill Zearley (Kaw); 71. Cal Rayborn ill (H-D); Quenni King (Suz). Time: 1 hour,55 min., 0.130 sec. Di>tance, 57 laps, 200 miles. Average Speed: 105.870 mph. Margin of Victory: 45 sec. AMA/MBNA SUPERB IKE NATIONAL C'SHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 2 of 10 rounds): I. Doug Chandler (62); 2. Miguel DuHamel (36); 3. Pascal Picotte (54); 4. Steve Crevier (53); 5. Larry Pegram (47); 6, Aaron Yates (45); 7. Paul Harrell (38); 8. (TIEl Mat MJadin/Scotl Russell <37/1 win each); 10. Eric Moe (31); 11. Colin Edwards n (30); 12. John Jacobi (29); 13. (TIE) Tom Kipp/Thomas Wilson Jr. (26); 15, Chris Rankin (24); 16. Tripp Nobles (22); 17. Tommy Hayden (21); 18. (TIE) Gerald Rothman Jr./David Sadowsk; (20); 21 (TIE) Dale K;effer /0.. Snow (19). n. Upcoming Rounds Round 3 - Monterey, California, April 20 Round 4 • Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, June 8 Russell's third watch R (Above) The pace car came out late In the race, driven by Randy Renfrow. (Below) Tom K1pp comes In for tires and fuel from the Yamaha crew. Klpp finished slJrth, despite having problems with second geer. olex, smolex... Scott Russell didn't particularly care if he came out of qualifying at Daytona International Speedway with his third Rolex Daytona cltronograph. Not 90 for his factory Yamaha teammate Colin Edwards n. Edwards wanted it 90 badly he could envision it on his ann. his name engraved on the back. But when push came to shove, it was Russell who came away with both the watch and pole position for the 56th running of the Daytona 200 by Arai - barely. Both of the Yamaha n:ten were scintillating 01\ IIhe 3.56-mile Daytona International Speedway, lapping under the lap record set a year ago by Troy Corser and the Promotor Ducati 955. Given the 1ess-than-ideal weather conditions, Caner's record was one that many felt would stand for a while. But it was shattered by the World Superbike palrlng on a cool and windy Thursday afternoon - first by Edwards and then at the last p0ssible second by Russell as the top men spent their session shredding ultra-soft qualifying tires in an effort to find that perfect lap. With the normally Jarge field attempting to qua1ify for the 80 available spots in the Daytona 200 split into two groups based on their racing numbers (odd and even), Edwards struck first and he figured his record-breaking 1:49.274 would be good enough to give him his first Daytona pole. It wasn't. Although he was able to hold off the advances of Muzzy Kawasaki's Doug Chandler late in the session, he couldn't do anything about his teammate, who retaliated about an hour later with another record breaker - a 1:48.999. "I wanted Colin (Edwards) to win the watch, to be honest with you/ Russell said. "I had one tire to go and my best time up to that point was a 50.2 (1:50.2). I was almost. like 0, let's not even go bad: out' and I'd be real happy for him. We made a little bit of adjustment on the bike and, God, it was just right. That's what happens when they're right, it makes it euy. You don't even know how you did it. As far as Sunclay goes, 1 think that we're looking pretty good - one and two right now. 1 think the Yamaha crew is unbelievable. I'm happy to be there, it's great. We just hope that we do everything right on Sunday and I think that we'll be aU right." Russell described his late-session dash for the pole after stumbling upon a good setup when the team softened things upa bit. "l had three qualifying tires," he explained. "I'd go out scuff a front, have two laps on it, put the rear in and go. Do it again. go. And then the last time, we were oat of it. I was a second off and it was like, 1t's not going to happen today: 1 said, 'Please Anders (Andersson - the suspension specialist), just fix this thing: And then it was click, click, click, gone. Tluire it was. But that's just two laps. (On Sunday) I've got to do that shit aU day. "We need to reaDy work tomorrow on the race setup. And I really haven't focused on this watch (winning ~ Rolex by getting pole position) happening at aU. 1 didn't care. I've got two of them. I don't care about the watches. But 1 wanted it to be known that I'm up front - here we are. I'm back, so look out. That was more my point than the watch, which dOl!&l\'t mean that much. So it wasn't revolving around this one clay, II's like Sunday's where we want to be. We'll just Iceep dicking until Sunday. 1 think we've done a hell of a job. We didn't do any of the testing they did down here, and here we ~ enetwo.'" At the end of the session. Russell was able to celebrate with wheelies through the infield section of the Speedway, though he was still a bit worried because his only indication that he'd pulled it off came from his on-board timer, "l was standing up and going =y," Russell said. "I saw it on my board, but I'd look like a real idiot if 1came in and I was second. I saw everybody standing up and going off in the infield and said, 'Well, I hope that I did it:" Edwards, meanwhile, could only watch in agony, though. he took it weD and playfully abused Russell when he entered the press room for the post-qualifying press conference. "'Yeah, I'd rather not talk about it, but we might as well Iceep it in the team," Edwards said. "We were aU talking about the wind and stuff and we were expecting mid-495, maybe high 495 being the best. And then once I did the time, 1 thought that was as fast as you can go around here. Then 1 saw the lap sheet and 1 saw Doug (Chandler) was really close to me. Let me say one thing. next year when r come here I'm (number) 44. I'm not going to be 45 again. I want to be in the right group." An already-confident Chandler was even more so after getting his Kawasaki on the front row with a 1:49.409, just behind the two World SupeJbike slats. He likely coukI have gone even better if not for running out of gas on his 6nal attempt at outdueling Edwards in the first session. "We had a bit of trouble on having enough gas in it," Chandler explained. "That's just the way it goes. You just never know. I'm happy with what we did, We're on the front row and that's what 1 wanted. You always want to win Daytona it's the biggest race. Fortunately for us, it's early enough in the season that you can put a bit more risk into it. If it was toward the end of the season, I think it'd be a lot tougher for us, the AMA guys. It's definitely a relief to have our starting positions locked in. Tomorrow, in both sessions, we're going to just work on raoe setup to see if we can get a bit more out of our bike," Defending Daytona 200 Champion Miguel DuHamel and his Smokin' Joe's Honda filled the front row from Thursday's pole day, the final rider to lock in as the rest of the field would continue to jockey for grid positions on Friday. DuHamel lapped at 1:50.193, jovial as always and quick with a response as to whether he could do those laps consistently. "I can run those type of laps aU day long if we pit stop every three laps," DuHamel said, before getting more serious. "Our bike is getting better. We did some modification change in the suspension. We're having a little bit of spinnage going on. We changed the suspension around a little bit and got a bit better and I didn't quite have the drafting idea down quite pat. Doug (Chandler) was in front of me and I was trying to chase him down and it took forevl!l'. And then when I got close enough that I thought 1 could get a good draft coming on the front straight, Mike Taylor pulled out in &ont of me, because he didn't see me aDd he just bied to get behind Dou8- 1 ielt a lot of confidence being where I'm at right now. I'm on the front row. I think since 1991 II's the second time. So I'm reaDy happy and excited that I'm locked in. It gives us sOme more testing time for tomorrow." The other man wbo appeared to have the best shot st unseating one of those on the front row was Yoshimura Suzuki's Pascal PIcotte, PIcotte, however, crashed in the international Horseshoe right at the end of his session and couldn't better his 1:50.256. Picotte said the setup of the GSXR750 Is getting doser, though he was having front-brake problems that he hoped could be reaoMd come race day. "It was right at the end," Picotte said. "I was on a hot lap. Tommy Hayden was in front of me so 1 didn't want to waste time, it was the last two minutes. So I went a little bit wide to square the corner a little bit more. It was my fault. "The bike is going in the right direction, but we can still improve. And we should be able to. We have two sessions tomorrow morning, then qualifying. In quaJifying, I'm not really going to try hard. I'm mean I'm going to try hard, but only on race setup. I was trying to do reaDy a good lap time the last time and I just screwed up. It was my fault. It would have been a 49, a really low 49. 1 was really trying. The thing's flying on the banking." Picotte would be joined on the second row on Friday afternoon by Yamaha's Tom Kipp (1:50.757), Yoshimura Suzuki's Larry Pegram (1:50.921) and Smokin' Joe's Honda's Steve Crevier (1:51.180). Surprisingly, Phoenix winner Mat Mladin could do no better than a 1:51.281 on the Fast by Ferraro Ducati, an improvement over Thursday but still only the ninth-quickest of the superbike men. He was suffering from rear suspension woes, having trouble getting the Ducati to track properly from the Infield section to the high banks of the Speedway, though it was better after the FerTacci crew worked long into the night on Thursday to correct it. Ferracci was also worried about reliability and said the Ducati would be detuned some 8 percent in an effort to easure that it 6Dished the race.

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