Updated Post: Hacking Sets Fast Time In AMA Supersport Practice At Daytona

Updated Post: Hacking Sets Fast Time In AMA Supersport Practice At Daytona

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Jamie Hacking, Yamaha’s sole factory team entry in the AMA Supersport class, led Wednesday morning’s AMA Supersport practice at Daytona International Speedway with a time of 1:41.757, which is well below the existing lap record for the class, Tommy Hayden’s 1:43.510. Armed with set-up knowledge gained during the CCS/ASRA race weekend at Daytona, Hacking did his fast lap within his first nine laps of practice on his all-new YZF-R6 and told his crew that he was only riding at 60% of his limit. Hacking, however, stopped riding halfway through Supersport practice and considered leaving the track to get X-rays taken of his neck, which was sore from a crash he had during AMA Superstock practice moments earlier. Hacking did not leave the track or get X-rays, according to his Team Manager Tom Halverson. Second and third on the timing and scoring monitors at the end of the Supersport practice session were Safety First Racing’s Tony “The Tiger” Meiring and Matsushima Performance Suzuki’s Danny Eslick, respectively. The low-1:42 lap times shown for Meiring and Eslick, however, were not legitimate lap times, according to each rider. The second-fastest rider in Supersport practice was actually Roger Hayden, with a 1:42.643 on his factory Kawasaki ZX-6RR, followed by Team M4 EMGO Suzuki’s Geoff May, with a 1:42.977 on his new GSX-R600, and Yoshimura Suzuki’s Ben Spies, with a 1:43.173 on his new GSX-R600. Provisional Wednesday Morning AMA Supersport Practice Times: 1. Jamie Hacking (Yam YZF-R6), 1:41.758 2. Danny Eslick (Suz GSX-R600), 1:42.248* 3. Roger Hayden (Kaw ZX-6RR), 1:42.643 4. Geoff May (Suz GSX-R600), 1:42.977 5. Ben Spies (Suz GSX-R600), 1:43.173 6. Tommy Hayden (Kaw ZX-6RR), 1:43.212 7. Michael Barnes (Suz GSX-R600), 1:43.666 8. Ben Attard (Kaw ZX-6RR), 1:43.792 9. Damon Buckmaster (Kaw ZX-6RR), 1:44.111 10. Pascal Picotte (Yam YZF-R6), 1:44.119 11. Alastair Seeley (Yam YZF-R6), 1:44.594 12. Barrett Long (Yam YZF-R6), 1:45.766 13. Ryan Elleby (Hon CBR600RR), 1:46.213 14. Tyler McDonald (Yam YZF-R6), 1:46.320 15. Darren Luck (Suz GSX-R600), 1:46.395 16. Rob Frost (Kaw ZX-6RR), 1:46.698 17. Shea Fouchek (Suz GSX-R600), 1:46.765 18. Blake Young (Suz GSX-R600), 1:47.112 19. Tristan Schoenewald (Hon CBR600RR), 1:47.378 20. Nathan Hester (Yam YZF-R6), 1:47.746 21. Michael Beck (Yam YZF-R6), 1:47.757 22. Brian Hall (Kaw ZX-6RR), 1:47.993 23. Joshua Day (Yam YZF-R6), 1:48.184 24. Chris “Opie” Caylor (Suz GSX-R600), 1:48.312 25. Justin Filice (Hon CBR600RR), 1:48.390 26. Greg Gildenhuys (Yam YZF-R6), 1:48.434 27. Tony Meiring (Suz GSX-R600), 1:48.694 28. Jeff Tigert (Hon CBR600RR), 1:48.710 29. Aaron Eldridge (Kaw ZX-6RR), 1:48.788 30. Jean Paul Tache (Yam YZF-R6), 1:48.969 31. David McPherson (Yam YZF-R6), 1:49.074 32. Keith Marshall (Suz GSX-R600), 1:49.601 33. Mark McCormick (Yam YZF-R6), 1:50.288 34. Dan Ortega (Suz GSX-R600), 1:50.351 35. Joseph Ford (Yam YZF-R6), 1:50.701 36. Santiago Villa Venegas (Yam YZF-R6), 1:51.034 37. Dr. Jeffrey Purk, DDS (Yam YZF-R6), 1:51.499 38. Spencer Stuart (Yam YZF-R6), 1:51.501 39. Bill Card (Yam YZF-R6), 1:51.560 40. Johnny Rock Page (Yam YZF-R6), 1:51.863 41. Kenny Carlotta (Suz GSX-R600), 1:51.902 42. Bostjan Pintar (Yam YZF-R6), 1:51.970 43. Lance Yeager (Kaw ZX-6RR), 1:52.234 44. Bostjan Skubic (Hon CBR600RR), 1:52.367 45. Will Gruy (Yam YZF-R6), 1:52.776 46. David Sadowski, Jr. (Yam YZF-R6), 1:53.078 47. Dafan Zhang (Kaw ZX-6RR), 1:53.682 48. Scotty Van Scoik (Kaw ZX-6RR), 1:54.258 49. Dejan Senk (Hon CBR600RR), 2:05.149 *Danny Eslick indicated to Roadracingworld.com that this lap time was obtained by cutting the course. His second-best lap time, according to AMA Pro Racing timing & scoring, is a 1:44.454, which would put him 11th-fastest.

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