AMAIChevy Trucks U.S. Superbike Series
Miguel DuHamel shows his magic
again to win the Daytona 200
By
PAUL CARRUTHERS
PHOTOS BY HENNY RAY ABRAMS
DAYTONA BEACH, FL, MAR. 10
e may not be Mr. Daytona just
yet, but it would be fair enough to
at least start calling him Mr. Monday.
With the Daytona 200 being run
for just the second time in history on
a Monday afternoon, American
Honda's Miguel DuHamel went out
and won his fourth Daytona 200 and his second on a Monday. He is
now just one victory away from Mr.
Daytona Scott Russell in all-time
Daytona 200 race wins, his fourtb
coming in an absolute thrmer today.
This one was definitely worth the
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resulted in an all-Honda RC51 Victory
Lane. Not bad, considering just three
Hondas started the race. It was the
second time Honda swept Victory
Lane in the 200, the first time coming
in 1985 when Freddie Spencer
topped fellow Honda riders Wes Cooleva~eff1.Ianey.
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Thet1rst non-Honda finisher was
Yoshimt.lfa-S.,uzuki's Aa+Q(l Yat~ the
Georgian in the hunt for the win until
the 4""81'h of >5/'I!ii1>s when he ran
straigiit'in"furn Q
while right on
lead~bert~il.H~encountered
fourth place and stayed there, charging to the very end and finishing just
8.4 seconds behind DuHamel.
A lonely fifth place went to
Kawasaki's Eric Bostrom, the Californian well clear of Yoshimura Suzuki's Mat Mladin, who had lost touch
early on after getting a bad rear tire.
Yoshimura Suzuki's Ben Spies was
also the victim of a bad first tire, and
that put him behind. He would eventually finish seventh - not bad for the
Superbike rookie in his first-ever
Daytona 200.
Preito Priority's Michael Barnes
was the top finishing privateer, ending his day eighth on the team's
Suzuki GSX-R1000. Attack Suzuki's
Jason Pridmore and Millennium Kaufman Racing's Shawn Higbee rounded
another rider on the run to turn one,
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~ was simply carrying tee--gluel;t--spe~''''''''''''''-otIt-tAe-top--l0-finishers.
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