January 3-5, 2005
AMA SUPERBIKE
"I just feel so comfortable on the bikes
right now, and for sure Mat Mladln and
Ben Spies feel just as comfortable:' he
said. "I'm having fun; that's the thing, too.
It's not like I'm going out there and I'm
pushing so hard I'm almost crashing in
every comer. I'm just out there riding
around and trying to stay relaxed, and It
works. It's like golf. If you try to crush the
ball, you hit it ISO yards; you take a nice
easy swing, and you get close to a 300yard drive."
Yet another surprise was the secondfastest Supersport rider, Michael Barnes.
The veteran Floridian was thrashing about
on a Pirelli-shod R-6 and proving that he
can run with the best of him. Barnes was
one of the few riders who had Input in the
track design.
Jumpman23.com's Jason Pridmore was
second-fastest Superstock, despite sharing
the team's long Suzuki GSX-RIOOO with
teammate Steve Rapp and, to a much lesser extent, teammate Montez Stewart.
Not surprisingly, Duhamel was the
fastest Formula Xtreme rider and favorite
to win his fifth Daytona 200 in the inaugural running of the race as an FX event.
Vincent Haskovec was second on the M4
Exhaust Suzuki with Pirelli tires.
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Daytona TIre Test
DAYTONA INnRNA11ONA1 Sl'uDwAY
RlIOLTS: JANUARY
3·5, 2005
SUI'ERBIKE LAP 11MES: I. Ben Spies (Suzuki)
1,39.701; 2. Mat Mladin (Suzuki); 1,40.30'/; 3. Nell Hodgson
(Ducati) "40.711; 4. Aaron Yates (Suzuki) 1,40.820; 5.
Miguel Duhamel (Honda) 1:40.987; 6. Eric Bostrom
(Ducatl) "4"018; 1. J>l<. Zemke (Honda) 1,41.295; 8. Josh
Hayos(KawuakJ) 1,42.311.
SUPERSTOCK: "jason DiSalvo ~) 1,40.816;
2. Damon 8ud
