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PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN J. NELSON
VOL. 50 ISSUE 42 OCTOBER 22, 2013
RICK SHAW, ERIC DESY
Killed At Daytona
F
ormer AMA Superbike racer
and Team Hammer Advanced
Riding School instructor Rick
Shaw and student Eric Desy
died on Thursday, October 17 as
a result of injuries suffered after
the two collided in an accident
coming off the East Banking at
Daytona International Speedway.
The 65-year-old Shaw was a
retired Miami/Dade police officer, who raced AMA road race
Nationals for nearly 30 years.
He was perhaps best known for
breaking Warren Sherwood's
longstanding Daytona 200 mileage record in 2003. He also
held the record number of starts
and laps completed in the 200.
In an interview after that 2003
race Shaw talked about his emotions of breaking the mileage record in America's oldest motor-
cycle race.
"I wanted to celebrate [on the
record breaking lap], but I was
trying to keep my head down,"
Shaw said. "I tried to get my
hand up there and I just about
lost it on the second lap trying to
celebrate. Boy was that stupid.
I put my head back down and
went for it. It was an exciting lap.
I felt it. Finally, the weight was
lifted off me after the second lap
and I could go out and race. I put
some more pressure on myself
to get this done."
Shaw's first Daytona 200 start
was in 1981. He retired in 2006.
Shaw fell in love with the heritage of the Daytona International
Speedway, which made the mileage record a special moment in
his life. Shaw amassed 3728.33
miles in three decades of racing
Former Daytona 200 mileage
record holder Rick Shaw was killed
at the Speedway in a crash on
October 17.
the Daytona 200. Ricky Orlando
broke Shaw's mileage record in
2011.
Shaw had been an instructor
for years with not only the Team
Hammer School, but also the
Penguin School and the Track
Day School.
Shaw and Desy were the 38th
and 39th racing-related deaths
at Daytona International Speedway, according the Daytona
Beach News-Journal.
Larry Lawrence
A HONDA 300!
H
onda introduced a CBR300R at the 12th China
International Motorcycle Trade Exhibition last
week - an upgrade over the popular CBR250R
that made its debut in 2011. The CBR300R will
be produced at Honda's factory in Thailand. No
details on the bike have been released.
