Is it true? $175,000 Payout for Daytona 200

Wait what?
The track will be down for a few hours?
Ya, nothing gets me properly ready to race like sitting around doing nothing for 3 extra hours. I predict a ton of red flags from all the brain farts brought on by wasting away a third of the day.
People are driving from the west coast to do this, I'm driving 13hrs, why are we going to sit around not using the race track again?

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if the air show is close enough then i could see it becoming a huge distraction for alot of people. including cornerworkers and maybe even some riders so it might be a good idea to wait it out.

i dunno if it will have military aircraft but if i could hear a jet engine over my own bikes engine, that would totally throw my concentration. that may not be an issue at all but having others not completely focused on the racing for any reason, would be IMO

 

I think Geoff May has a pretty good game plan.

he runs a professional level operation, but it's as lean as he can get away with.

Were there any green-flag pit stops last year? i wonder how much time it would really cost a team to not run the quick-change stuff... I get that it could cost them the race, but it could also keep them off the grid.

 

Of course there were green flag pit stops. And even if there somehow wasn't, I believe you are required to take one.

No one is going to win (or be competitive) in the 200 without a QC setup and a quick fill tank. Efficient pit stops take 20 seconds or less for tires and fuel. If your pit stop takes a minute, you're going to lose a lap in the pits.

 

Even a little mom and pop team like Tyler and I wouldn't show up there without spending the extra coin on the tank and QC stuff. Diesel to get back and forth would probably cost me the same amount, so if I can afford to get there, I'm surely going to spend the extra to be competitive as possible.

 

Some smaller privateer teams might go without a quick change front wheel and run one front tire the whole race. It reduces the possibility of mistakes in pit lane and the size of the required pit crew as well. I would think that is about as far as you can take it unless someone really wants to gamble on a harder endurance compound lasting the whole 200 miles and run the same rear for the whole race.

With MotoAmerica's spec tires the above might not be possible, but this is ASRA so run whatever tire you want.

 

OK, well an announcement like that deserves to be put somewhere where people planning to travel from all over the country can easily notice it, not buried in a silly thread about non WERA race payouts.
And this doesn't seem to be an answer as to why the track will sit empty but whatevs.

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I assume most teams start the 200 knowing that their odds of winning aren't good.

With that said, a top 30 or top 20 finish is a more realistic goal. For those folks, I think quick change stuff is less necessary. I'll have to find last year's time sheets and see how much of a gap there is between 10th, 20th, 30th etc.

If it's tighter than I think, then I'm way off.

 

Cool. I'm not upset bro, I'm just asking questions so I can understand wassup. I just don't understand why we can't use the track but it ain't no biggie

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I do agree, you may be able to get away with one front, didn't someone win it in the past few years with only one front? But I would still want the quick fuel system and quick change stuff on the rear at least.

I remember getting to play with a quick change setup a friend of mine, Armen had on his GSXR 1000. It was really cool how quickly you can roll that front wheel in and out and zip it up with the impact gun.

 

[QUOTE="MELK-MAN, post: 5032003, member: 3965". Disalvo doing a full motor swap and still winning, comes to mind.[/QUOTE]
So,Your saying Disalvo changed his own motor during the race and won? If...You remember correctly?
Is that what your saying you needling hack?
Really? Disalvo took his daddys money,and as a trained mechanic changed his motor,and won the race?
This is about as fun as listening to you argue about someone getting screwed on a bike purchase.
I'm waiting..Im tapping my foot this time.

 

Sometimes the beeb is like a wife. You say one thing, they hear whatever the fuck it is they feel like hearing and then spin it and sensationalize it and wind up getting really upset about nothing. But I love my wife

 

OK, I love the beeb too, when it helps me procrastinate and not write my dissertation, which is always

 

ToofPic:
So now we are arguing semantics in the General section of the BBS? A new low...

DiSalvo was riding for George Latus' team, not his dad. They changed an engine during an extended red flag.

 

learn to use the quote feature correctly.. i'll consider wasting more time debating with you.

 

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Operative word being, "wasting"...