Sign of the (Lap) Times: Daytona

March 10, 2009, 4:25pm

Obviously, the big news this past weekend involved Boost Mobile/ampm/Monster Yamaha’s Jason Lawrence and his incredible ride in his first-ever AMA Supercross main event, so let’s begin with that class. Prior to the main event, J-Law shocked the paddock when he went out and laid down the fastest time in practice, thus becoming the first rider besides Stewart or Reed to do so. That practice time of a 1:06.998 held up as the fastest time of the entire day, giving Lawrence the first gate pick in Heat 2.

In the main event, it was Chad Reed logging the fastest lap time, with his 1:08.732 coming on lap 14 as he hunted down the leader, Lawrence. James Stewart, sans helmet visor after the first-turn crash, had the second fastest time, his 1:08.850 coming on lap four. Lawrence rounded out the top three with a 1:09.313, followed by Honda Red Bull Racing’s Davi Millsaps and Rockstar/Makita Suzuki’s Mike Alessi. Check out the rest of the field’s fastest main-event lap times below.

Finish	Best Lap	Rider	Bike
1	1:08.732	Chad Reed	Suzuki
7	1:08.850	James Stewart	Yamaha
2	1:09.313	Jason Lawrence	Yamaha
3	1:09.319	Davi Millsaps	Honda
4	1:09.984	Mike Alessi	Suzuki
8	1:10.034	Andrew Short	Honda
6	1:10.148	Ryan Villopoto	Kawasaki
9	1:10.200	Ryan Sipes	KTM
5	1:10.214	Kevin Windham	Honda
11	1:10.358	Josh Hill	Yamaha
12	1:11.189	Broc Hepler	Yamaha
10	1:11.465	Tommy Hahn	Kawasaki
14	1:11.855	Tyler Bowers	Honda
13	1:11.882	Ivan Tedesco	Honda
17	1:12.623	Ben Coisy	Honda
15	1:12.927	Heath Voss	Honda
18	1:13.051	Matt Boni	Honda
16	1:13.231	Kyle Chisholm	Yamaha

Boost Mobile/ampm/Monster Yamaha's Jason Lawrence
photo: Steve Cox

AMA Supercross Lites

In the Lites class, it looked like Muscle Milk/MDK KTM’s Martin Davalos had his first major win in the bag, as he passed both Matt Lemoine and Christophe Pourcel and started to open up a gap. He recorded the fastest lap time of the main event (1:09.918) on the third lap, and even began to pull away. Unfortunately, Davalos tightened up on lap 12 and relinquished the lead to the second-fastest rider in the class, Pourcel.

The third- and fourth-fastest lap times of the main event came from the Division 7/Star Racing Yamaha’s pilots Lemoine (fourth) and Darryn Durham (seventh). Podium finisher Nico Izzi had the fifth-fastest time en route to a third-place. Check out the rest of the field below.

Finish	Best Lap	Rider	Bike
2	1:09.918	Martin Davalos	KTM
1	1:10.579	Christophe Pourcel	Kawasaki
4	1:10.603	Matt Lemoine	Yamaha
7	1:10.662	Darryn Durham	Yamaha
3	1:10.735	Nico Izzi	Suzuki
13	1:11.197	Branden Jesseman	Kawasaki
5	1:11.216	Wil Hahn	KTM
6	1:11.469	Matt Goerke	Suzuki
9	1:11.633	Blake Wharton	Honda
8	1:12.431	Broc Tickle	Yamaha
10	1:13.089	Kyle Keylon	Honda
16	1:13.121	Steven Clarke	Suzuki
17	1:13.383	Josh Lichtle	Honda
15	1:13.638	Shane Sewell	Yamaha
11	1:13.775	Daniel Blair	Honda
12	1:14.294	Levi Kilbarger	Honda
14	1:14.585	Vince Friese	Honda
18	1:15.596	Brad Ripple	Honda

Muscle Milk/MDK KTM's Martin Davalos
photo: Steve Cox