Copyright 2004, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

Heath Small, Larry Pegram and Bryan Bemisderfer each won a CCS race Sunday morning at Daytona International Speedway.

HAS/Shogun Motorsports’ Small came from row five and led most of the Expert Middleweight Grand Prix, but was passed by Team Valvoline EMGO Suzuki’s Vincent Haskovec, coming from row nine on the the grid, in the late going. Small played his cards well on the last lap and drafted Haskovec to the line to take the win. First-year-Expert William Meyers, III finished third.

Harding Harley-Davidson/Buell’s Bryan Bemisderfer rode his XB9R Firebolt Superbike to narrowly defeat Honda RS250-mounted John France in the Expert Lightweight Grand Prix.

The best race of the morning was Expert Unlimited Grand Prix, which saw Hooter’s Suzuki’s John Haner and Eric Wood, Triangle Cycles Yamaha’s Larry Pegram, Millennium Suzuki’s Shawn Higbee and Team Valvoline EMGO Suzuki’s Steve Rapp racing to the line.

Wood, who was still suffering from injuries sustained in a crash on Friday, dropped out of the lead group, to fifth, on the last lap. Rapp, who started on row nine of the grid, turned the fastest lap of the race, a 1:50.706, to move into fourth on the last lap but couldn’t catch the lead draft.

Haner led Pegram and Higbee into the chicane on the final circuit. The three riders raced elbow-to-elbow through NASCAR Turn Four. Then in the last few hundred yards to the flag, Pegram’s 2004-model YZF-R1 inched forward to cross the line first. Higbee took second with Haner happy in third.

Haner, Higbee, Pegram and Wood started on the front row of the grid.

Pegram rode on Pirelli DOT-labeled tires; Higbee and Haner rode on 17-inch Dunlop slicks; Rapp used “grooved, non-DOT-labeled” Michelins; and Wood used 16.5-inch Dunlop slicks.