by Chase Stallo
Sign Of The Lap Times: Daytona
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 | 10:55 AM
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PrintRound 9 of Monster Energy Supercross from Daytona definitely lived up to the billing of being the gnarliest track on the circuit. The track was by far the roughest and toughest track that we will see this season. And it showed in the lap times, with every rider averaging a fast lap over the one-minute mark--the first time that has happened this season. So let's get over the lap charts, brought to you by Motion Pro, to see how it all broke down.
AMA Supercross
| Lap Rank | Finish | Best Lap | In Lap | Avg Lap Time | Rider |
| 1 | 9 | 1:15.556 |
2 |
1:24.881 |
James Stewart |
| 2 |
1 |
1:17.306 |
2 |
1:19.993 |
Ryan Villopoto |
| 3 | 2 |
1:18.128 |
3 | 1:20.067 | Chad Reed |
| 4 | 3 |
1:18.277 |
6 |
1:20.088 |
Ryan Dungey |
| 5 | 5 |
1:18.354 |
7 | 1:22.634 |
Davi Millsaps |
| 6 | 4 |
1:18.698 |
2 |
1:22.310 |
Andrew Short |
| 7 | 7 | 1:18.940 | 3 | 1:23.111 | Kevin Windham |
| 8 |
6 | 1:19.252 | 6 | 1:22.740 | Justin Brayton |
| 9 | 13 | 1:19.319 | 7 | 1:24.333 | Trey Canard |
| 10 | 18 | 1:20.441 | 6 | 1:29.359 | Brett Metcalfe |
| 11 | 11 | 1:20.843 | 3 | 1:23.228 | Ivan Tedesco |
| 12 | 8 | 1:21.213 | 5 | 1:23.568 | Ken Roczen |
| 13 | 19 | 1:21.619 | 2 | 1:25.055 | Chris Blose |
| 14 | 10 | 1:21.651 | 3 | 1:24.094 | Mike Alessi |
| 15 | 12 | 1:21.878 | 3 | 1:24.987 | Matt Boni |
| 16 | 20 | 1:22.633 | 3 | 1:23.915 | Matt Goerke |
| 17 |
14 | 1:22.651 | 4 | 1:25.701 | Michael Byrne |
| 18 | 16 | 1:22.791 | 4 | 1:26.716 | Fabian Izoird |
| 19 | 15 | 1:23.380 | 6 | 1:25.853 | Nick Wey |
| 20 | 17 | 1:23.479 | 4 | 1:25.701 | Tye Simmonds |
James Stewart was a man on a mission at Daytona. The San Manuel Yamaha rider absolutely laid the wood down at Daytona, setting a fast lap of 1:15.556--almost a full two seconds faster than any other rider. Before you get all worked up and start sputtering about how Stewart crashed his way out of the win...take a deep breath and realize this is Sign of the Laps. We are talking lap times here folks, nothing more.
Two in a row for Poto.
Photo: Simon Cudby
An interesting fact from Daytona--other than all the fast laps being over the one-minute mark--was that a majority of the fast laps were set within the first few laps, with the latest fastest lap coming on lap seven by Davi Millsaps. The track definitely got rougher as the night progressed making it essential to get on it early or get out at Daytona this year.
AMA Supercross Lites
| Lap Rank | Finish | Best Lap | In Lap | Avg Lap Time | Rider |
| 1 | 1 | 1:18.455 | 3 | 1:19.842 | Blake Baggett |
| 2 | 2 | 1:18.939 | 3 | 1:20.865 | Justin Barcia |
| 3 | 3 | 1:19.219 | 2 | 1:21.720 | Ryan Sipes |
| 4 | 4 | 1:19.809 | 3 | 1:22.151 | Blake Wharton |
| 5 |
9 | 1:20.058 | 3 | 1:24.243 | Matt Lemoine |
| 6 | 8 | 1:20.177 | 14 | 1:23.030 | Dean Wilson |
| 7 | 7 | 1:20.410 | 5 | 1:23.018 | Malcolm Stewart |
| 8 | 6 | 1:20.523 | 5 | 1:22.757 | Jason Anderson |
| 9 | 5 | 1:20.842 | 3 | 1:22.703 | PJ Larsen |
| 10 | 17 | 1:21.154 | 3 | 1:34.015 | Nico Izzi |
| 11 | 10 | 1:22.569 | 3 | 1:24.695 | Les Smith |
| 12 | 13 | 1:22.727 | 3 | 1:24.957 | Alex Martin |
| 13 | 19 | 1:23.262 | 3 | 1:34.299 | Hunter Hewitt |
| 14 | 12 | 1:23.444 | 2 | 1:25.426 | Taylor Futrell |
| 15 | 11 | 1:23.510 | 8 | 1:24.764 | Lance Vincent |
| 16 | 16 | 1:24.850 | 2 | 1:31.458 | Hunter Clements |
| 17 | 14 | 1:24.884 | 4 | 1:27.363 | Levi Kilbarger |
| 18 | 15 | 1:25.323 | 2 | 1:28.272 | AJ Catanzaro |
| 19 | 18 | 1:27.262 | 2 | 1:34.770 | Kyle Keylon |
| 20 | 20 | 1:27.365 | 5 | 1:27.365 | Ryan Zimmer |
Blake Baggett capped off the Kawasaki sweep of Daytona by notching his second career win (his first came in Dallas last year.) Baggett was in perfect form Saturday as he gapped the field en route to the fastest lap of the night with a 1:18.455.
Baggett set the fastest lap of the night en route to his first win of 2011.
Photo: Simon Cudby
It was a tough night for privateer Matt Lemoine. Lemoine had a great start to the night and was closing in on fourth when he stalled his bike and dropped back to ninth. Although Lemoine suffered a tough break in Florida, the Texan has shown the speed to contend this year. Lemoine managed to set the fifth fastest lap of the night with a 1:20.058...just in case you were wondering.
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Considering this track is a little outdoorsy, I think this can be a sign of what will happen this summer. No one will be able to match the 7 or 2.
too bad stewart crashed, I would have loved to see him gap everyone by 30+ seconds.
That wall jump he was hitting was crazy, I bet his butt puckered up so tight every time he came over that . . I know mine did.
313!!! You are Hilarious BRO!!
Last week Andy Bowyer wrote an article touting the "outdoor prowess" of the "two Ryans"
How does that toe jam taste andy??
to clarify...I mean that he forgot to mention the grizzly old veterans..if you can call a 28 and 26 year old that...
BD 200 I KNOW YOU ARE ABOUT TO POST!!! IF YOU HIT ENTER YOU ARE FIRED!!!
Take a look at Baggetts lap time average...that kid was haulin...ok ok the track was smoother but still!
And gutsy ride by Barcia!! Broken bones in the right wrist? Ouch...
Cant wait to see what the haters say about Stewart!
Cant wait to see what the lovers say about Stewart!
Brayton!! look at his times...very well done man
to your boss,LOL.BS200 wow he all over you.
You can't fire me because I QUIT!!!
Hey 313 when you finish the day of racing and your but muscles are sore from puckering up? You know you were pushing, I just have a problem with you saying your but was puckering just whatching?????? LOL.........
1:15......like him or not , crash or not ,........WOW That's f#^*@ing HAULING
Yeah, Brayton was on it. Even had the best avg time, to bad he didn't start better
How about Deano's fastest lap coming on the 14th. That's gnarly!
BD200 needs to find a new job
Bubba will always be known as the fastest practice rider and the guy who has the fastest lap in any given race. Unfortunately for him that doesn't equal race wins or championships.
i just shat myself hucking that triple!! Couldn't keep her puckered up...that's why I endoed cause I couldn't concentrate with the squishyness!!!!!
what can I say, I guess I get into the racing
@tomktm
thanks for your brilliance, very insightful...do you have masters degree in the obvious?
bs200 do you know anything about H.V.A.C.
What's more impressive? JS7 fastest lap being 2 seconds faster than RV2 or RV2 average lap being 5 seconds faster than JS7?
Sorry, had to change the subject from puckering bungholes.
How is Brayton's fastest lap time and his average lap time the same? That means that every lap he ran was the exact same time, or really close to his fastest.
I'd like to know how much time James shaved by clearing that wall jump. It could have been a bit more impressive if he were blindfolded for the take off as well.
Braytons avg lap time was 122.740. It's a typo.
Stewart spent AT LEAST 30 seconds getting remounted SA1 so i'd have to say that RV2's five second better average is nothing to cheer about IMO.
Not a 7 fan just trying to demonstrate how numbers cam be manipulated to siut whatever your argument is...
Fact of the matter is that he went down lost the race and POSSIBLY the C'Ship.
On to next week at INDY!! If my memory serves me correctly he crashed twice in the main the last time he was there!!
Reed was happy about that.
Here is a question relating to Reed...other than one moto at Millville years back in the 125 class (Reed was on a YZ250F) has he ever beat Stewart in straight up in the Premier Class?
"Stewart spent AT LEAST 30 seconds getting remounted SA1 so i'd have to say that RV2's five second better average is nothing to cheer about IMO."
Not taking a side (in fact i have always enjoyed JS7's warp speed riding going back to the 125's) except fastest average wins, which is all that matters.
I cannot think of Reed beating him straight up in the premier unless you count 2 weeks ago :)
Stewarts average lap time definately went up with that crash considering by the time he got going again it was well over a 2 minute lap.
here are the fastest laps and where they finished for each race so far.
Race Rider Finish
A1 JS 3
Phx RV 2
LA RV 1
Oak RV 4
A2 JS 1
Hou Davi 4
SD TC 4
Atl JS 4
Day JS 9
so only twice this year has the rider with the fastest lap won and the most common finish is 4th (the average finish is 3.5, getting 3rd is easy, the .5 is the tough part)
JS... WOW and RV was a lot faster then the rest too.
You guys see the Where will 2010 SX Champ Ryan Dungey get his first win thread?
.52% say he wont win this year... WOW thats a Lot of people.
Malcolm and Jason Anderson had the EXACT same fast lap (1:20.523) down to the thousandths of a second???!!!! That's crazy, or a typo.
How lucky is JS7 for not getting seriously injured or at a minimum not wadding up his bike? That was a very high speed crash that could have been a season ender.
Dungey could still win one since he's always somewhere up front but the stars will have align perfectly for that to happen, meaning he holeshots and the others fall or get buried. He has the ability to fend off all but stewart on a good day but his passing truly sucks balls.
SA1 you call that move in Atlanta beating him straight up??
What is your number and what type of bike do you ride? I need to watch out for you man!!
@ acejas, Dungey went from 10th to 3rd at Daytona. I would say he passed pretty well.
Sorry, what I meant pertained to the top 5. He's too timid with the big players even though he's physically bigger than all of them.
@ acejas, I do have to agree. Dungey needs to shed a little of that good boy image with the top guys. He is always wanting to pass cleanly on the top guys, but that's not always possible since the top guys are running close to the same pace. Maybe he will figure it out soon?
I like that they include the average lap yimes its pretty good to compare. Stewie was off the track at least a minute after his crash. And I know someone wrote it on one of these threads but was called a liar. But I read over at Transworld that Millsaps also hit the wall jump that Stewie was saving so much time on. But Millsaps didnt do it every lap.
@The What?-- every time Reed has beaten Stewie, its a straight up win. I dont remember Reed ever cheating, they always start at the same time, run the same track. And the same number of laps, its a straight up win. Reed cant help it if Stewie falls down.
@ ride4ever,, I think he meant everywhere else but Daytona.. Daytona is clearly not like all the other SX tracks.. You can actually pass on that track.. He is right, RD does need to pass poeple alot quicker than he has.
@ bd200, when stewie got back on the track he was 70 sec. behind, and he had a 7 sec lead I believe. So yes he was off the track for almost a whole lap.
BD 200 I hear you man..I mean It would be cool to see him beat him without a stall like in San Diego (Stewart admitted he had nothing for him there), without a crash (who ever's fault it was) like in ATL or with out multiple crashes like at INDY in 2009..
I just want to see him out run the guy to the line that is all. Like Millville back in the day when they filmed in black and white?!!
A win like that would just quiet a lot of the if's ands and buts that's all...
Dungey needs to take a ride in the Mystery Mobile with Justin Barcia and me after the races!!!
We might have a little something for him... to help work on his passes....
How many brilliant minds are going to or already have posted that the average lap time is more important than the fastest lap? You guys are truly a credit to the sport.
Indy Preview Layout. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKdhLVRj-vQ
Exactly my thoughts, Whoops Blitzer. James "Jiminy Cricket" Stewart's average lap times were 5 seconds slower than the RACE WINNER, Ryan Villopoto's. Wow! Amazing that Villopoto is 5 seconds a lap faster than "the fastest Jiminy Cricket on the planet!" LOL
Js ran 2 laps in 1:15 his lap 4 was 2:29 rv had alot of 1:18s
While we complained that the fastest lap didn't tell us much, the average lap (mean) doesn't tell much more than how riders finished. Hey racerx how about showing us the median time for each rider? I seriously hope you were joking about rv being 5 seconds faster. What does Jiminy Cricket mean? Is that an inside joke?
Or maybe show a column of who had the # of fastest laps. Dungey had 7 of the fastest laps, and 6 out of the last 8 laps. He just couldn't make up for a bad start. I bet Dungey would be a great enduro racer too. He gets better as the race goes on.
Dungey has yet to holeshot this year! If he got a start without Poto and James breathing down his throat He could hold off reed n Treynard for the WIN. Look at deano, charging on the whiteflag lap, awesome. Still Cant believe the asterisk guys let Stew on the bike when he couldn't even stand up. what a joke! congrats to alessi w/ that 14th fastest lap. He definately diserves that factory ride. Now we've got to see him battling for top 15's in "the MOTO" series. Shrug it off DEAn, next race is yours souldier
im pretty sure raplh sheheen would've pee'd a little bit when he saw his golden boy stewart do that crazy section! props to js7 though.... that would take serious kahunas.
Im sure stewie 1:15 lap time was because he was doing the wall jump which no other attempted.
Whoa ride4ever! I like that idea. A breakdown of who was the fastest on each lap.
I've benn watchn supercross since 89' and i dont ever remember seeing a more gutsy ride! I think RV has this in the bag and i honestly don't think RD will win one race in sx or mx! WHERE IS D-BAG that use to say DUNGEY RULESSSSSSS lol
This is why i read the comment section, to be entertained,
"That wall jump he was hitting was crazy, I bet his butt puckered up so tight every time he came over that . . I know mine did"
mine did too ima.
i have to say bagget looked smooth as silk out there !
"Here is a question relating to Reed...other than one moto at Millville years back in the 125 class (Reed was on a YZ250F) has he ever beat Stewart in straight up in the Premier Class?"
In that reed moto-win at millville, stewart crashed hard in practice, and hurt his knee. he finished 6th in moto one, and pulled off in moto two, after tangling with mike brown, and hurting it some more.
always be very careful with that term 'straight up' when posting on these message boards.
very nice stats SA1 !
I thought that dungeys daytona ride, was and indication that he is turning it up, as the season progresses. you cant say that he doesn't pass aggressively anymore, 17th to 3rd.
It is still a learning curve, i think. Last year he won without the top guys, now he has to figure out how, with all of them there. I am very impressed with him, considering that less than 5 years ago, he was racing in the B class at loretta's, and i read that he finished ninth.
Same for trey canard. daytona was cruel to him this time, but i wont ever forget him hucking that finish line double in the mud, and beating rv straight up, in his third pro race.
dungey and canard = fast learners
The What?
The little smiley face at the end of my comment meant it was a joke.
OrganDoner, RD had the lead a few weeks back, RV came from 10th and won it, JS passed RD fell, Got up and re passed RD for 2nd. RD had a fight with TC over 3rd. Cores I think RD is riding better now but he did have the lead and that is what happen that night.
@SA1 oh ok! I get it. I am all for hard racing but that type of riding gets under my skin.