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Formula USAILockhar't-Phillips Unlimited Superbike Series Final Round: Daytona International Speedway partially putting it to racing three different classes, and three different motorcycles, in the same weekend. "It was an oversight, really. Finally the three bikes bit me as far as that's concerned. I didn't have the fastest 600 like I do a lot of the time." "Barney [Barnes] and I had our own little battle. It just worked out that it separated us from the lead pack," Acree said. "Without the draft, we couldn't get back up there to them. We just couldn't keep chugging along." Behind Wood came Wait, having made his way through the field to take the GNe. "Of course, there's a lot of things that can happen when you come from the back row," Wait said. "You're' dealing with riders that aren't as fast. So it's a matter of getting clean laps at the beginning so I could focus on the rest of it - the middle and the end - to get closer to the lead pack, which I think I did." lIQtDu IntematioaaJ S,eedway 1IlIyt8U Such. florida 1leslI/ls: Ilct8ber 20, 2002 [llolInd 8 lit 8) HONDA PRO OILS SPORTBIKE: I. Jason DiSalvo (Vern); 2. Craig Connell (Suz); 3. LlIrry Pegrom (Suz): 4. Lee Acree (Suz); 5. Michael Barnes (Suz); 6. Jeflrey Wood (Kaw); 7. Malt Wa~ (Vam); 8. Cory West (Hon); 9. Danny Eslick (Suz); 10. Scott Greenwood (Suz); II. Michael Luke (Vam); 12. Matt Furtek (Suz); 13. Chris Peris (Hon); 14. Raymond Bowman (Hon); 15. Robert Jensen (Suz); 16. Jeff Williems (Suz); 17. Eion Smith (Yam); 18. Mark Ledesma (Hon); 19. Nathan Weit (Vern): 20. Kevin Gordon (Vam); 21. James Johnston (Suz); 22. Jeff Binford (Vam); 23. Michael Leon (Suz); 24. Shawn Scott (Kaw); 25. Richard Kjar (Vam); 26. Bill Sheridan (Yam): 27. John Lounsbury (Suz); 28. Mereu' Winfree (Suz); 29. Brian Lee (Suz); 30. Cllrlos Fabian (Kew): 31. Martin Milanese (Yam); 32. Jason Curtis CHon); 33. Shawn Hill (Yam); 34. Eric Wood (Bue). TIme: 23 mins, 13.858 sees. Distance: 12 laps. 42.72 miles. Average speed: I 10.335 mph. Margin of victory: 0.534 sees. HONDA PRO OILS SPORTBIKE C'SHIP POINTS STANDINGS (Alter 8 of 8 rounds): I. Croig Connell (136); 2. u.rry Pegram (106); 3. Michael Barnes (100); 4. Lee Acree (87): 5. Matt Wait (74); 6. Jeffrey Wood (61); 7. Scott Greenwood (48); 8. Andrew Nelson (37); 9. Raymond Bowman (36); 10. Cory West (34); 11. Eric Wood (30); 12. Jason DiSalvo (25); 13. Jim Lester (22); 14. John Lounsbury (21); 15. Paolo Mariano (20); (TIE) Clint McBllin/Timothy Bemisderfer/Owen Weichel/Anthony Cammack/John Dempsey/Jemes Kerker/D8le Dandrea/Sam Rozynski/Bryl!ln Bemlsdelfer (16). Championship Cup Series Race of Champions: Daytona International Speedway BUCKV'S BIKE WINS WITHOUT BUCKV and won again, topping the Expert ranks with three wins at Daytona International Speedway. Most impressive was his final win in Sunday's Formula USA Honda Pro Oils Sportbike race. "I was new to the bike and just trying to learn everything, and that's the whole reason that we came here just to get used to the Yamahas for next year," DiSalvo said. Kane Lasky came from Idaho to top the Amateur ranks, winning five races, and taking a second and a third. Backed by PerfectSingles.com, Lasky chose from either a Suzuki GSX-R750 or 600 to rack up his wins. The winning began on Friday in the 30-minute Amateur GTU and STORV AND PHOTOS BV HENNV RAV ABRAMS DAYTONA BEACH, FL, OCT 18-20 D amon Buckmaster's Yamaha R6 won more races this weekend than in all the time he rode it. Granted, they weren't AMA Supersport wins, but they were wins nonetheless and they served a purpose, to get Yamaha's newest recruit Jason DiSalvo comfortable on his new mount. The New York teenager picked Bucky's R6 up in California, put in a few laps at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, then headed east. In his first race of the Championship Cup Series Race of Champions, DiSalvo finished second. Then he won, and won again, ended on Sunday afternoon in the National Road Race Series Open Supersport Amateur. In between came victories in the Amateur Middleweight superbike, Amateur Heavyweight Superbike, and Amateur Heavyweight Supersport classes, with a second in Middleweight Grand Prix and a third and in Amateur Grand Prix. Fellow Amateur Alex Ferreira nearly equaled Lasky's success, winning four races on the 2wf.com Suzuki SV650. Ferreira won four of the five-lap sprints, the Amateur GT Lights, the Amateur Lightweight Supersport, the Amateur Ughtweight Grand Prix, and the Amateur lightweight Superbike. Ed Key, of Motorcycle Performance, was another Expert with multiple wins on the weekend. Also Suzuki SV650-mounted, Key won the Expert GT Lights, Expert Lightweight Superbike, and Thunderbike races, finishing second in Expert lightweight Supersport. Team Embry/RoadracingWorld.com's Geoff May took three wins, topping the Expert GTO, Expert Heavyweight Superbike and Expert Unlimited Grand Prix fields aboard his Suzuki Ed Key (5) leads Eric Fait (311) en route to beating him In the Expert Lightweight Superblke class. 26 OCTOBER 30. 2002' cue I • n e _ s Jason DiSalvo (40ll) beat Andrew Nelson (hidden) to win the Expert Middleweight Grand Prill class In CCS action at Daytona. GSX-RI000. The Aprilia Cup Challenge race went to NESBA.com's Brian Kcraget in something of a runaway over James Monson. Kcraget won the eight lap race by 5.339 seconds, with Monson holding over 21 seconds on third placed Aaron Risinger. Former Daytona 200 winner John Ashmead won a pair of races on Fuel restaurant-backed Suzukis, though he had to give one up. Having not pre-entered the CCS event, DiSalvo was put at or near the back of the grid every time. A pattern emerged early on: DiSalvo would slice through the field, take over late, and then speed to the win. It first happened in Saturday's first race, the Expert Middleweight Supersport. By the third of five laps he was in fifth, then up to second on the fourth lap. It wasn't until the final lap that he was able to run down the leaders and make his move with a draft pass at the line. In the Expert Middleweight Superbike race, DiSalvo was up to third on the third lap, up to second on the next lap, and running down Penguin