DNA Shred Stix/Star Racing/Yamaha - Daytona Supercross Race Report

Daytona
Beach, FLA. (March 5,
2011) The AMA Supercross series visited Daytona Motor Speedway and
massive crowd last Saturday for round three of East coast Lites
championship. DNA Shred Stix/Star Racing /Yamaha fielded a squad of
two riders, #25 Ryan Sipes, and rookie #533 Gannon Audette. Like
every year, conditions at this race are extremely challenging and
everything needs to lineup just right for a great finish. Preliminary
action got underway in good fashion as Sipes stood high up in the
charts at 5^th
and Audette clocked the 14^th
fastest Timed-qualifying lap.

Slated
into Heat #1; Audette reeled off a fair start only to go down hard in
the first lap. Once back up again, Audette was far from qualifying
unfortunately and prepared for the LCQ. Next in line would be Sipes,
starting Heat #2 in the front of the field, the contender showed good
speed and raced on to a transfer position of 2^nd.
So in the dreaded LCQ, Audette played it cool in the opening laps
holding 4^th,
but again his luck would run out as just when Gannon put his Yamaha
in place to possibly move into the top two, he took yet another soil
sample which left him unable to qualify.

When
the Main Event took to the track, Sipes and his #25 bike were in the
mix sitting in 3rd. Finding his grove, Sipes quickly broke away with
the leaders, and found himself in the hunt for a win. At the halfway
mark, Ryan began to show his cards as he applied pressure to the
second place competitor, and seemed to be adapting well to the ever
changing track conditions. Just when the race was coming to the Scott
gear backed rider, Sipes lost his wheels in the soft surface, and
went down only momentarily. However, he still held onto the 3^rd
spot, but now had pressure from behind. From there, Sipes put
together consistent laps and got back into being in race mode, which
carried him to the finish of 3^rd
comfortably, giving the entire team a well deserved podium finish.

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