onds, but it might as
been 2.704 miles.
-second margin of vicn Parriott accrued en
n In this year 's BMW
up final at Daytona
dway was about as
ance as anyone could
ass that is recognized
-lap, blanket finishes
at Daytona Intern't like that, but it
mph slamfest that
attention at the
a clean race, the Pit
acked Parriott left
ing away from a
than four laps to
rst Boxer Cup vicold Parriott, who
crossed the finish line first during the
event's inaugural running at Daytona in
2003, only to be credited with second
after the restarted race was adjusted for
time. It was also sweet revenge , not that
Parriott was looking for any.such thing.
"I didn't really think about it like that, "
Parriott said. "l tend not to let too many
things get to me. I knew that I wanted to
win, and I knew that I had the capability.
"But two point seven seconds?"
Parriott said incredulously when informed
of his margin of victory. "Ididn't think that
I'd be able to break away like that. I rode
as hard as I could on that whole lap [lap
10], and nobody came by me . With two
to go, I looked back and saw that I had
about 15 bikelengths on them, and I knew
that I had done it right there."
The batt le for second place was typical
Boxer Cup action , close and spirited
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among five riders . In the end, former
Spanish Formula Extreme Champion
Oriol Fernandez headed the drafting war
to take second as the pack fanned out.
Polesitter Thomas Hinterreiter of Austria
came home third.
40th Anniversary
As the field began to sort itself on the
first lap, former World Superbike contender Stephane Mertens of Belgium led
the way, followed by Parriott and
Germany's Markus Barth, all three coming from row two on the grid. Belgium's
