ASRA celebrated its annual season-ending trip to the Daytona International Speedway with a 2.5-hour Team Challenge/Endurance race and 36 additional races throughout last weekend.
Gabriel da Silva, who had several MotoAmerica Supersport outings in 2025 on a Cano Jarritos Motorsports Suzuki GSX-R750, won the Team Challenge GTU event. Da Silva covered 44 laps in 1:30:21.993 in the red flag-interrupted event, with a best lap of 1:51.799. Da Silva was running strongly but found himself in the right place when the first red flag dropped, and as a result took the restart with a one-lap lead on the field. MotoAmerica Supersport racer Tyler Scott from Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki was scored as second, one lap down, with a best lap of 1:49.992. Teammate and MotoAmerica Superbike racer Sean Dylan Kelly rode a stint for the team, which used the event to test and practice pit stops in preparation for next year’s Daytona 200. MotoAmerica Twins Cup race winner Matthew Chapin and Talent Cup competitor Solly Mervis were classified as third overall on a GSX-R600.
Wristin Grigg on a Ducati Panigale V2, Dominic Doyle on a Yamaha YZF-R9 and Ryder Davis on a Yamaha YZF-R6 were scored as the top three finishers in the Endurance GTU class.
ASRA’s Team Challenge races are “Pony Express”-style races where teams use multiple motorcycles and swap transponders during pit stops, while in the Endurance races teams use a single motorcycle and swap riders, refuel and change tires as needed during the stops. Many riders did the entire race on their own.
In his first trip to Daytona, MotoAmerica Talent Cup competitor Bodie Paige took a Team Hammer GSX-R750 to the win in the Heavyweight Supersport Expert sprint race, his first race on a 750cc-class machine. Shane Narbonne, listed as racing on a Yamaha YZF-R6, and Eric Wood on a Ducati Panigale V2 were second and third. Later in the day, Paige, on a GSX-R750, finished third in the Unlimited Supersport race, behind Tony Storniolo on a Kawasaki ZX-10R and Frank Babuska on a BMW M 1000 RR. Paige had shown up at Daytona to ride a Suzuki GSX-8R racebike. But Team Hammer had on hand the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR GSX-R750 that former Supersport National Champion Martin Cardenas had ridden at Circuit of The Americas earlier this year. The team re-sprung the machine for Paige and let him try it out, then entered him in several races over the weekend. On his first weekend on a 750, Paige’s best time was a 1:49.904, according to the official ASRA timing and scoring website. That lap time would have qualified him ninth for the 2025 Daytona 200, ahead of multi-time Daytona 200 winner Danny Eslick and Michael Dunlop, the all-time Isle of Man TT winner with 33 victories on the island to his name.
On Saturday, Scott won the Supersport Expert race, with Joseph LiMandri Jr. second on a Yamaha YZF-R6 and Paige third. Babuska won the Superstock 1000 race over Storniolo and Ian Graham on a Yamaha YZF-R1. Chapin won the Thunderbike race over Isaac Woodworth and Levi Badie, all on GSX-8R machines, and Doyle won the GTU race over LiMandri Jr. and Paige. Danny Webb won the Middleweight GP race on a Suzuki GSX-R750 ahead of Doyle and da Silva, and Storniolo won the Unlimited GP race over Babusak and David Loikits on a Suzuki GSX-R1000.
On Sunday, Davis won the AMA 600 Supersport race over da Silva and Paige, Storniolo won the AMA 1000 Superstock race ahead of Bryan Peine and Antal Halasz, both on Yamaha YZF-R1s, and Robertino Pietri won the AMA Thunderbike race on a Yamaha YZF-R9 over Jaden McKellar on a Kawasaki Ninja 400R and Edward Sullivan on a Yamaha YZF-R7. Da Silva won Supersport Race Two ahead of Davis and Doyle, Storniolo took the Superstock 1000 Race Two win over Babuska and Bryan Peine, and the trio took the same three spots in the Unlimited Superbike race.
Roadracing World is still waiting on finalized results.
