MARCH 10-12, 2022
DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY / DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA
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ROAD RACE I 80TH DAYTONA 200
BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN J NELSON
T
here are two things you want if
you're going to win at Daytona:
the first is not to lead com-
ing out of the last chicane, and the
second is to have a rocket of a race
bike underneath you to draft past
your rivals for the win and the trip to
Victory Lane.
That's just what happened for
TOBC Racing Triumph's Brandon
Paasch, as the 20-year-old from New
Jersey sat behind Syntainics Racing
Yamaha's Sheridan Morais, long-time
leader Cameron Petersen (Attack
Performance Yamaha) and Squid
Hunter Yamaha's Josh Hayes with half
a lap to go, going low in the bank-
ing and then switching to the outside
to pull the pin and unleash the 765
Triumph for the win on a weekend
plagued by bad weather. It was a
Pirelli whitewash on the podium.
In a race that saw one red flag due
to Columbian Jose Lloreda crashing
out of the final chicane on the sev-
enth lap, Morais at one point looked
to have pulled a sufficient gap coming
out of the last chicane, the diminutive
South African squeezing absolutely
everything out of his Yamaha YZF-R6
in a desperate bid to break the draft
of the chasing pack.
BRANDON PAASCH PULLED A
MASTERSTROKE IN FLORIDA, STEALING
THE WIN ON THE LINE TO TAKE A SECOND
SUCCESSIVE DAYTONA 200 VICTORY.
Brandon Paasch (96), once
again, timed the draft to
perfection at Daytona to take
his second straight 200 win.
PAASCH AND THE
PERFECT PASS
