[spoiler]...and the Lindsey Jacobellis award goes to...
Jason DiSalvo in yesterday's Daytona Superstock race!
Let's hear it for being a flake, showboating in the last laps, getting beat at the line, and trying to act like it's all ok afterwards during press interviews!
Way to go Jason! You've taken a page directly out of the U.S. Women's Snowboard cross playbook, and adapted it to roadracing in your deeply thoughtful, intelligent style. On top of that, you have accomplished another unbelievable feat: You made Jamie Hacking look smart. How do you do it?
yeah, I had no ideer what he was doing or thinking...
makes since that he got sick of the Hacker riding his ass drafting & watching for an open door, but I don't think that squirrly stuff was the way to do it
kid rides the wheels off, just needs to keep his head st8
alot of times last year he had the q times to beat, but in the race Team Green would sail past in the last couple of laps
Oh thats great, thanx for the word SPOILER in the title
Some of us havent yet seen it.
Not my fault, lame ass. It was on TV yesterday. What were you waiting for? Brian Drebber to come recount the whole race to you in person at a tea party?
How long do we have to wait? Is it safe to discuss the 2005 Daytona 200, or haven't you seen that yet either?
Would you like anything else spolied? Superbowl X? The result of the Franco-Prussian war? The battle of Alexander and Darius on the plain of Isus?
Or do you need to be warned before you're told earth-shaking things like... Jason DiSalvo might not be very smart.
Here's my point - If you say something about a race that was televised more than 12 hours previously, it's not really a spoiler, now, is it?
Originally Posted by Superbike Planet reprint of post race press conference
Jason DiSalvo (#40 Yamaha Racing, second place)
Q Jason, you had a chance to win it there. You were leading on the last lap. Were you worried about leading going onto the banking?
A I've just got to say one thing first. (motions up to lights above podium are in media center) Those lights are way too bright. Like, I can't even see anything. I'm blind. It's like when you get pulled over at night and they shine that thing in your eye. "Who's coming out of the car?"
(laughter in pressroom)
But anyway. It was a good race. I don't know if I would've done anything different. It was just kind of a roll of the dice there at the end of the last lap. I blame myself, because I left the door open a little bit at the bottom, and I know all about shutting doors here at Daytona. I did it to Rog in '04 on the 600. But on the big bike, it's a little bit different. You can't sort of like, "I'm going to go here on the banking." The thing'll get a little loose and crazy on you. I was coming onto the Trioval, and I was kind of like, "Well, I don't see Jamie yet, so I think I got this one." And then it was, whoomp. I mean, it was that fast. But it was a good race, and it was cool for Yamaha to go 1-2. We kind of rode our own race. I looked back once, and I was like, "Jamie's behind me." I looked back again for a long time, and I'm like, "Jamie's the only one behind me."
So I was taking it in, and let him by once, put my hand out for him to pass, and he kind of ran a little bit wide when I did that. I was kind of leaving the door open, but he got in there deep, and he ran wide. I went back by him and I was kind of waving, "Sorry, dude, it didn't work out for you." And then I kind of let him by again. I came out of the Horseshoe and did a wheelie. And when he got by me that time, I kind of studied him a little bit. I was looking at him. "Well, Jamie's looking pretty good. I don't know if I want to let him lead, because he might pull a gap," because my tire was starting to go off a little bit.
So at that point I was like, "I'll try to draft him down the front straight." And it didn't really work out like I thought it was going to. It took a long time to get up next to him, and I couldn't get by him by the stripe. So I was like, "Well, I'd better get back in front of him." So I went back by going into Turn 1, and, "Okay, what am I going to do now?" It was the last lap. "I'll just ride hard." We did a 40.4, 40.5 on the last lap. The pace was still there. He just played that draft right. Like really right, Miguel Duhamel right. That draft was like perfect. So congratulations to him. We'll just mark that down in our notebooks and look forward to next year.
Q You were saying something about the trophies?
A Yeah. Jamie's got all these second place Daytona trophies and everything, and I had a first and I had a third from last year in the 600. So well, I'll collect the whole set. Because they're all the same, Daytona trophies, That little thing with the diamond on it. They're pretty cool. So I'm going to put it in my house and get all three of them, going up.
Q What was the hand-waving to Jamie with about three laps to go?
A That was, going into the left-hander, that tight left, I kind of put my hand out. Because I ran it, coming off the thing, and kind of spun a little bit. "Well, that was a bad drive." So I'd stood it up a little bit wider than I normally would. I put my hand out and said, "There you go. Go for it, welcome, please, come on in." And he passed me like really fast, and I was like, "Whoa, he's running a little bit wide." And then I was like, "Oh, I'll go back by him." And then I put my hand out like, "Sorry it didn't work out for you" type of thing. And then the wheelie, I was like, "Well, I should let him by me, but I don't want to make it as blatant," so the wheelie kind of slowed me down a little bit. Was it blatant the second time, too?
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HA HA, backfired on him, good stuff
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