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Cycle News 2014 Issue 11 March 18 2014

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AMA VANCE & HINES HARLEY-DAVIDSON SERIES VOL. 51 ISSUE 11 MARCH 18, 2014 P85 say safer. It was awesome. Just so much fun. Like Tyler [O'Hara] said, this is what we live for. I was just loving it. It's the third win for me and I just love this place and it's the reason I love coming here and spending all winter thinking about coming here. I couldn't imagine going to the first race at a track I didn't like because it would just make the winter even more miserable. I get to look for- ward to Daytona and I'm just so happy to be up here. It was a long year last year and I just feel like we're off on the right foot." O'Hara didn't win, but he did the next best thing. He followed up last year's win with a second. "It was awesome," O'Hara said. "Everybody wants to win Daytona and I was fortunate to win it last year, but I came up a little bit short this year. Kyle rode awe- some, Danny [Eslick]… every- body rode really clean. It's a little bit of luck, a little bit of something here to get the job done, but the race was a lot of fun. When they are like that they go quick. They are fun when they're like that and you're in the moment and racing hard every lap and that's what we live for." McAllister ran in the lead pack last year, but ended up with the short end of the stick, finishing ninth – but just .792 of a second from the win. This was his first podium finish in the class. "It was a pretty hairy ride," McAllister said of this years' race. "I just tried to stay in the right posi- tion for the last lap. I found myself toward the front and I was looking to be a bit further back, but I still got a good run down the back straightaway and it was a good race. I was super nervous going into it, but as soon as the green flag went, I was ready to go." Aerostar Global's Nick Hansen and Suburban Harley-Davidson's Ben Carlson rounded out the top five, respectively. Defending series champion Steve Rapp failed to finish the race with his XR suffering a bro- ken belt adjuster. CN Harley-Davidson Final 1. Kyle Wyman 2. Tyler O'Hara 3. Gage McAllister 4. Nick Hansen 5. Ben Carlson 6. Eric Stump 7. Danny Eslick 8. Hayden Schultz 9. Michael Barnes 10. Barrett Long (Left) The battle went to the flag with Wyman (33) beating O'Hara (29), McAllister (51), Nick Hansen (97), Carlson (45), Danny Eslick (69), Hayden Schultz (59), Eric Stump (77) and Barnes (34). (Above) The win was Wyman's third at Daytona – out of four tries – in Harley-Davidson racing.

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