AMA GO PRO DAYTONA SPORTBIKE SERIES
VOL. 51 ISSUE 11 MARCH 18, 2014 P61
Eslick and Gagne were the
two survivors set to scuffle for
the win, but Eslick managed to
open a gap after the second stop
and turned consistent 1:51s, oc-
casionally dipping into the 50s
to pull away from Gagne, who in
turn was running mainly mid-to-
high 51s and even slowing some
laps into the 52s. In the end the
margin of victory for Eslick was
10.975 seconds.
Jake Lewis was third on the
MotoSport.com/Meen Motors-
ports Yamaha - 37.230 seconds
behind Eslick at the flag. Bobby
Fong was another 11 seconds
behind Lewis and then came
Gerloff, charging back after his
crash. Kyle Wyman, in sixth on
his privately entered Yamaha,
was the final rider on the lead lap.
Support Yamaha
Teams Shine
Eslick was joined on the Daytona
200 podium by runner up Jake
Gagne on the RoadRace Fac-
tory/Red Bull Yamaha with Lewis
third for Motosport.com/Meen
Yamaha. Yamaha has strength
in numbers and that helped Big
Blue dull the pain after both the
factory-backed Yamaha Extend-
ed Service/Monster Energy/
Graves/Yamaha riders Garrett
Gerloff and JD Beach crashed.
On this day it was the support
teams who held up Yamaha hon-
ors. Kyle Wyman looked great
on his own Yamaha in sixth and
Slovenia's Bostjan Skubic took
ninth, giving Yamaha five riders
inside the top 10.
Gagne, the 20-year-old San
Diegan who was second to Cam-
eron Beaubier in last year's Day-
tona SportBike Championship,
was thrilled with his second-
place finish. It marked his best
result in the 200.
"To start off on the podium, es-
pecially at the Daytona 200… I'm
stoked for the whole RoadRace
Briefly...
all-nighter to put a new motor in for
qualifying. Ashmead just missed the
109 percent cutoff in qualifying time
for making the race, but as a former
winner he was given a provisional
start.
Dane Westby and 2011 Daytona
200 winner Jason DiSalvo crashed
out of the lead pack of the Daytona
200 going through turn one on the
38th lap of the 57-lap race. Westby
lost traction on his Yamalube/West-
by Racing Yamaha about mid-way
through. He fought to try to save it.
The bike flicked back and forth a few
times before throwing him off; DiSal-
vo was right behind Westby and real-
ly had nowhere to go. DiSalvo nailed
the brakes on his Castrol Triumph,
got sideways and was highsided.
Westby escaped with nothing more
than bruises, but DiSalvo suffered
a separated left shoulder and a se-
verely bruised right foot. According
to his father Jim DiSalvo, Jason was
Garrett Gerloff (8) took a few turns at the front before he crashed.
The Texan, shown here leading Dane Westby (hidden), Tomas
Puerta (12) and Eslick (69), crashed but remounted to finish fifth.
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