All AMA Pro Road Racing on-track activities are currently on hold at Auto Club Speedway due to severe winds. Sustained winds of 20 to 30 mph and gusts of over 50 mph dislodged soft safety barriers around the 2.36-mile infield road course Saturday morning, causing the first session of the day Daytona SportBike Final Qualifying to be stopped shortly after it started at 9:00 a.m. local time. GEICO Powersports Suzuki’s Danny Eslick, the provisional pole-sitter in the Daytona SportBike class, said the wind was blowing so hard across the back straightaway that he had to lean into the wind as if he were turning just to continue going straight. As of 10:25 a.m. local time AMA Pro Racing had not made any official announcements. Speculation among the teams on pit lane, however, was that Saturday’s morning’s final qualifying sessions would be canceled, the provisional qualifying results from Friday’s sessions would become final and short warm-up sessions would be run Saturday afternoon, prior to the start of the races. Saturday’s first event, the National Guard American Superbike race, is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. The National Weather Service as issued a High Wind Advisory until 5:00 p.m. local time for the Inland Empire area of Southern California. Update: According to McGrath, Saturday morning’s Daytona SportBike Final Qualifying session was abandoned based “100% on rider feedback. The riders who went out for a few laps told me it was too dangerous to ride, so we shut it down.” Second Update: At a rider’s meeting at 11:30 a.m. local time, AMA Pro Racing officials brought the paddock up to speed on how Saturday’s schedule would be handled in light of the severe wind situation. McGrath told the assembled group that Saturday’s Final Qualifying sessions had been canceled and that the grids for all three classes would be formed using lap times recorded during Friday’s morning practice and afternoon qualifying sessions. The 107% qualifying cut-off for the American Superbike class was relaxed to 110% because the “extraordinary circumstances” prohibited riders from getting a second shot at reaching the 107% cut-off, according to McGrath. AMA Pro Racing’s priorities are to hold the American Superbike then Daytona SportBike and then SuperSport finals, in that order, Saturday, but only after the wind gusts settle down to slower speeds. Once the winds subside, the American Superbike class will be given a 10-minute warm-up. During and after that warm-up officials will collect feedback from riders on the conditions and if they feel it is safe enough to race. If that feedback is positive, officials will then give teams a short break to prepare and the American Superbike race will be run. This process will then repeat for the Daytona SportBike and Supersport classes.