About That Poor Privateer Who Tagged Yates In Pikes Peak Supersport…

About That Poor Privateer Who Tagged Yates In Pikes Peak Supersport…

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This just in:

I’ve heard a lot of negative comments about the privateer (Daryl Woodward) who hit Aaron Yates in the Sunday SuperSport race at PPIR.

From what I saw on Speed Channel, it sure looked like Yates was taking an outside line around Woodward, and started to close on the apex. Then lost the rear, losing drive, resulting in no where for Woodward to go.

In my opinion (as an ex-mid-pack amateur road racer), that was just a racing incident, and there should be no blame placed. As a matter of fact, I think that Woodward really got the short end of the stick, and some bad publicity on top of it.

Just wanted to voice my opinion.

Thanks,

Ryan Stefani


(Editor’s note: We confirmed with Yates that he lost the front, nearly fell off the bike, lost momentum, then got hit by the other rider, who, as Stefani points out, had limited options at that point.)

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