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before Johnson was able to
pass him back, but Fisher was
still nipping at Johnson' heels at
the checkered flag.
"With about 10 laps to go I
was able to get back by Davis,
even after all my mistakes. He
clipped a Tuff Block and ripped
it right out in front of me. I ran it
over and about crashed," said
Johnson. "He ripped his brake
pedal off, so I got back by him.
Once I got back by him and got
a little gap I thought, all right,
just bring her home on two
wheels."
Kenny Coolbeth's Indian
debut went relatively well, as
he brought his Nila Racing/Co-
lumbia Avionics-backed Indian
Scout FTR750 home eighth in
from of fellow Indian pilots
ful. "I felt like for a little bit there
that I was putting in some good
laps. It seemed like I was going
to be able to get back up in the
mix," Johnson said. "I hit neu-
tral a few times landing off the
jump. I about went through the
hay bales three times, I cut the
track about five times. Luckily,
I didn't get a 10-second penalty
because I never gained any
time. I was hitting tough blocks
and about getting ripped off the
bike. I was going for it early and
got many, many warnings that
I was going to end up on the
ground."
Davis Fisher (Bob Lanphere
Beaverton Motorcycles/Parkin-
son Brothers Racing, Kawasaki
Ninja 650) worked his way up
from an 11
th
-place start to sixth
preparation we put in is really show-
ing," Bromley said of his small team.
His main sponsor of Big Momma &
Daddy Deep Pockets Racing says it
all.
"NEW TRACK"
Since it is a "temporary" racetrack,
the Daytona TT will always be a "new"
track, but this year's version was
quite different from last year's premier
event. "It was pretty cool," Baker said.
"I was a little bit disappointed because
I like it when the TT tracks are a little
bit more technical. That track seemed
like it was a little bit more like a half
mile with a jump. Last year the chicane
was really tight so the guys that were
better on a technical track had more of
an advantage. As far as safety, I under-
stand that they didn't want as tight of
corners. With a top five I can't com-
plain about anything. The track was
faster this year. It is not very often that
being bigger is an advantage in flat
track, but with the tight chicane that
we had last year it slowed thing down
so much. I had a little advantage being
bigger throwing the bike around. This
year was high speed or high paced.
The times were a lot closer than last
year. All together it was still good."
AIR TIME
Jared Mees and Shayna Texter both
started wearing Alpinestars suits
equipped with airbags. This is the first
time the technology has been used in
flat track racing. It is similar to the sys-
tems pioneered in MotoGP but uses
different algorithms to detect what
is a crash versus a near crash. They
collected data with Flat Track racers
last year.
Briefly...
