2022 MA Daytona 200

Aa I watched "tophyr" start going the wrong way with a racer approaching the chicane... I was envisioning tophyr trying to make a big left hand turn to get back on track just as the other racer was coming through the chicane at speed!!!

 

In my experience (as one, and from dealing with them) a crashed racer, jacked on adrenaline is usually functioning on 1, maybe 2 brain cells. Right up there with a Partridge on the intelligence scale.

 

I think the only reason it looked scary is because at first we weren't sure if the Chris was in full possession of his faculties. The sudden sharp right turn before hitting the hot track confirmed that he was.

 

Out of curiosity, have the Aprilia boys got their reliability issues sorted out?

Admittedly I don't follow the Twins stuff close but it seemed like every time I turned around of those things was blowing up last year.

 

Exactly! I was yelling no no no! Out of the blue Until he turned, my gf looked at me like I was crazy

 

My memory may be a bit fuzzy, but the only one I seem to recall having many issues last year was Jody Barry. He just seemed unfortunately stricken with bad luck a few times last year. But the others seemed ok from what I remember.

 

Gus rodios dad was praising their reliability on Facebook last night, I believe once the connecting rod issue was fixed with the early bikes they have been solid

 

Ah maybe that's what I was thinking of...

 

Jody had issues with overheating, I think other guys had it too.

Didnt seem like an issue at Daytona

 

Did it ever come to light just what happened with the Yamaha R7 that leaked fluid into that right hander and caused all of the carnage? - even after the restart more bikes went down.

 

@tophyr hey atleast all is well and you got a cool sig on the wera bbs "d200 reverse track guy"

 

From my understanding you ONLY got paid if you crossed the line after 57 laps. Even at 56, you don't get paid.

 

Finish on lead lap or just take the checkers?

 

You think Karl was yelling " it ain't got no gas in it " when they were trying to start the Ducaca ?

 

I am calm. But as someone else said, this isn't fun since you owned up to it and recognized the mistake rather than making a bunch of excuses lol I was ready for this to end up in another 20 pages of flaming in typical beeb fashion! lol I've also seen people do some real dumb shit before, like when someone drove a jeep on the track at Summit Point right as a race I was in started because they wanted to take a shortcut or something to get out of the paddock! So nothing really surprises me anymore, but you can imagine how many people watching that race had a big WTF moment when they saw you do that. Glad nothing happened to anyone after that (well besides the DQ). There were enough people this weekend who had their day/weekend ruined in that chicane as it is.

 

It was Ventura's bike. When I was in pit lane I heard one of the grid marshals say something about bike #28 was smoking on the warm-up lap. I'm not sure if Cory ended up starting that race or not, but evidently he spilled something on the warm-up lap and then on the first lap of the race a bunch of people crashed in the chicane.

 

First time racing at Daytona was pretty awesome for me. I was about as competitive as I expected to me (in race 1 anyway), had a really fun 4-way ding dong for 21st ! The lack of good track time wasn’t ideal, but I thought MA did as good of a job as could be expected trying to keep the show running.

One thing I haven't seen anyone mention is the low sun in Twins race 2. NASCAR 4 and the west horseshoe - I was completely blinded by the sun. That was a first for me - 0/10 do not recommend.

 

@tophyr

sorrynotsorry

 

Wait, wasn’t it schultzs bike they originally thought had the leak? He was the first one down right? Announcers made it sound like it was his bike and that they wouldn’t let him restart since his bike caused the issue and it still wasn’t made safe to go. If that’s so, was that a fuck up on MA’s part? Don’t doubt what you’re saying, just curious because it sounds different than what they were saying on the broadcast.