Round 1: Daytona Municipal Stadium
AMA GRAND NA TlONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
(Left) Will Davis made his
debut with Eaken Racing
a successful one,
scoring his 22nd career
Grand National victory at
the Grand National
season-opening Daytona
Short Track. Davis led all
25 laps In the main event
to grab his second
.Daytona win in four
years.
(Below) There were no
fewer than four former
winners running in the
top five at the end of the
main event. Team Undo's
Brett Landes (41), the '95
winner, battled with twotime winner Chris Carr (4)
bflefly before pulling
away to take second
place. Carr finished third.
By Scott Rousseau
Photos by Flat Trak Fotos and Kinney
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ABEACH, FL, MAR. 6
hen the Daytona Short Track
field scratched and clawed
away from the starting line to
begin the first 25-lap main event of the
'99 AMA Grand ational Championship Series tour, everyone figured
that Chris Carr would be the man to
beat.
By the time it was over, well, Will
Davis ha.d a little 'something to say
about that.
Instead of Carr picking up a third
win at the prestigious series opener at
Daytona Municipal Stadium, it was
Davis, the 34-year-old North Carolinian
and 1996 Daytona Short Track winner,
who grabbed the lead from his starting
spot just outside of low-pole man Carr
and set sail. He led all 25 laps ,of the
main event without so much as a challenge from a stout 16-rider field that
included no less than three other five
former winners, some tough-riding
Grand National veterans, three firsttime Grand National main-event contestants and a future motorcycle-racing
superstar.
