Daytona Supercross

The day started early around 6 a.m driving to pick up my father to embark on our 5 hour drive to Daytona. My father Larry and I benched raced a bit until he fell asleep due to his sugar induced coma from consuming his large birthday cake(happy b-day dad). We got to the track just in time to see the first 450 practice. First out of the gate was Grant clearing the triples with ease on his first lap, so much for taking it easy. The tracked looked really fun with your basic two triples and the long back rhythm section that attacked Stewart back in 06 sending him and his long lost kawi over the berm. Daytona has not been kind to Stewart in the past( unless you count 04 when he painted 3 on the infield) and tonight would be no exception. J-law made the treck down to Florida and boy did he look good posting the fastest lap time in practice, although he didn't ride to many laps. The 250 class looked good with the main three being Nico, Pourcel, and Stroupe. Practice(or time qualifying) was over and it was time to make it the stands to find our seats. 45$ got us as far from the track as possible, well passed the starting gate and closer to team Hondas semi than the track. Luckily we moved closer about midway and weasled into some elses comfy seats. The thing I love about daytona is it's nothing like the other 16 rounds, the rider intros are different and obviously the track is leap and bounds like the other cookie cutter tracks. Carmicheal made it out to the race to lend his voice for the Speed broadcast thanks to Jimmy Johnson flying him out on a private jet. The gate fell for the heat races and it was Nico and Stroupe wining the first two races of the night. Josh Lichtle lead for a bit until his Michigan friend caught and passed him. Stewart one his heat with a very nice lead, but Chad could not get around Hill who was riding an amazing race. The 45o LCQ was stacked with Millsaps, Tedesco, Wey and Josh Grant all going for that golden top two spots. Luckily for team Honda both Davi and Tedesco got out and stayed up to take the top two spots, Grant was coming through the packed but got some nasty head shake shortly after the finish line and went down hard ending his top 5 streak. Will Hann and Blake Wharton hit during the parade lap before the 250 main, Hann was pissed and had a good right to be. The 250 class had a good clean start with Stroupe in about 4th and Davalos in third. They hit collided in the rhythm section in the back and sent stroupe flying to tackle one of the 183 Honda tuff blocks. Davalos took the lead and would of won if his fitness was up to par, Pourcel caught him with only a few laps to go taking home his 3rd win of the season and stretching out that points lead even more. Izzi worked up to third, and sits second in points. Finally it was time for the main event and little did we know what we were in store for. The gate dropped and so did about half the 450 field. Stewart fell first, got ran over by Hill which in turn took out alot more and one of the Hart and Hunington riders( not Josh Hansen). It was a hard fall, so hard the Stewart's visor broke off and he tried to grab Hills bike and make a go of it. As all this carnage is going on Alessi(big surprise) was out front followed by J-law eventually and lead the first 17 laps. (WOW) Reed was held up by the first turn crash and slowly worked his way up to the top spot wining his 3rd Daytona and redeeming himself from last years mudfest. Millsaps took out Allesi for third and Stewart made it up to 7th. Now that's a race!! Jlaw got on the podium and almost won his first race, Chad extends his points lead to 11 and we got 7 more rounds to go!! My dad and I decide to make the 5 hour drive back home that night, we were very awake thanks to about 4 free rockstar energy drinks. The race was great and once again Daytona did not dissapoint.