Yamaha Prepping For 200
30
yEARS
AEO.-.
MarEh 16, t976
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ZD YEARS AEtI...
March 19, t986
who
battled with Cecotto
for
much of the
race before falling back after
his
tire went
flaL
Gary
Nircn
(Kaw)
finished second.
Pat
Hennen
(Suz)
was third...
The day before
the 200, Roberts won the
lnternatronal
USntwd8ht feature for 250cc
machines...
Tony DiStefano
($,rz)
went
2-l-l in the
three-moto
Daytona Supercro6s, chimirg
the overall victory.. Bultaco
took
out
a two-
page
ad spread
in
this issue, touting
its
Pursang 250 and 370 Mk.
9 machines :s
"The
Privateer's Answen"
Yamaha didnt win any ra.er during the
ASRy'y'CCS
weekend.
but. then again, they
didn't try lnstead, they used the weekend
prior
to the stan of $e
AMA Superbike
Championship to dial
in the new R6 for
rheir rerurn to the Daytona 200 after a
four-yeaa hiatus. The results were record
lap times and inareaaed confidence when
the raaing starts for real.
ln his llrst-ever 200 start,
Yamaha's
Jason
Disaho has emerged as the
front-
runner.
The
New
Yorker was fastest dur-
ing rhe Dunlop lire
aest and again this
weekend,
clocking
his best-ever lap, a
l:41,55 for
the 2.95-mile
road
course.
The
lap was not only his best, but under the
pole
time
set by Miguel Duhamel for last
year's
200. That he did
it
on
race
tires,
not
qualifiers,
and
with
a
lower-spec motor
than
he'll run next
weekend,
was a huge
confidence booster.
"l
dare
to say it's almost
perfect,"
Disalvo said of the FX R6.
"lt
was pretty
close when
we
brought it
here. We
iust
fine-tuned a
little
bit.
We
re
learning all
the
tire compounds inside and out so we
know which ones to use
for the race."
Disafuo shared the track with a number
of 1000s
in
one
of
the CCS
races. Though
he gave away displacement, he didn't sac-
overall
package.
We race the day after we
Eet
here, I
