ROUND 1 / MARCH 5-7, 2026
DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY / DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA
ROAD RACE I MOTOAMERICA AMA/FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
P86
can't be angry now."
When Herrin is at his mad-
dest, that's when the magic hap-
pens. But this time, his Daytona
pace appeared to
desert him
right when he needed it most.
Over the next five laps, Jacob-
sen went on a charge. A series
of
1:49-second laps seemingly
broke Herrin's resolve, the gap
ballooning from 2.6 seconds af-
ter the stop to over six seconds.
With race
officials getting
ready to carve PJ Jacobsen's
name on the trophy as the win-
ner of the 84th Daytona 200,
Jacobsen leisurely passed
a
After a clean stop for both rid-
ers, Jacobsen got away first, but
an errant
MotoAmerica camera-
man, still focusing on Jacobsen,
was right in Herrin's
way, and
the number two ran straight into
him, stalling the bike and losing
valuable seconds to Jacobsen.
"The first pit stop, I feel like
I was five to seven seconds
behind those guys coming out
of the pits because my bike
wouldn't start," Herrin said.
"They pushed me probably 50
yards down the pit lane. Then
I'm sure everybody saw what
happened on pit lane in the last
pit stop. The camera guy was
filming PJ leaving the pit, and I
ran him over. I was so angry. I
31 HANK VOSSBERG
1ST/3RD TWINS CUP
"We got a much better start yester-
day, and we were up with the group,"
Vossberg said after race two. "I made
a pass for the lead and just decided
to try and break away and was able to
have the pace in the infield to do it. It
was really good, and I tried to do the
same thing again today, but with that
red flag, we had three extra pounds in
our rear tire, so it was sliding around
and everything, and especially later
in the race, they were able to catch
back up. I [just] passed them too early
coming to the line, and that's Day-
tona. We got good points, and that's
all that matters."
MYOWNRACE
(Above) Herrin (2) dictated the
early pace, with Darryn Binder
(red), Richie Escalante (54), Tyler
Scott (70), PJ Jacobsen (15) and
Kayla Yaakov (green) giving chase.
(Right) Chaos at the restart as
Wristin Grigg (red) and Danny Webb
(199) go crashing out at turn one.
