PIRELLI WINS AND SWEEPS DAYTONA 200 FROM FIRST TO SIXTH

Pirelli pulled off an absolutely perfect, totally dominating finish in the 67th Daytona 200 by winning, sweeping the podium, and taking all of the top-six places.
By supplying the best tyres to the best teams with the best riders and equipment, Pirelli bested the rest in the Daytona 200 with four different brands of motorcycles: Kawasaki, Ducati, Suzuki and BMW.
TRACK CONDITION Dry 
TRACK TEMPERATURE 39°

Attack Kawasaki defended it's Daytona 200 crown with Chaz Davies riding his ZX-6R to first place while teammate, and last year's winner of the Daytona 200, Steve Rapp took second place. Next in line in the AMA Formula Xtreme class of the 200 were Pegram Racing's Larry Pegram on a Ducati 848 in third, rounding out the podium, and Martin Cardenas in fourth on an M4 EMGO Suzuki GSX-R600.
Completing Pirelli's top-six sweep were the two BMW HP2 Sports of Richard Cooper and Brian Parriott. While the top four finishers started the race from the front rows, both BMW HP2 Sport riders came up from the middle of the grid for their top-six finishes. Richard Cooper, from the United Kingdom, finished fifth after qualifying 26 out of the field of 69 riders on his BMW Motorrad prepared bike. Brian Parriott's stunning ride to sixth place for the BMW AG/Mersoleil Wine/San Jose BMW team was achieved from his 33rd starting position on the inside of row nine of the grid. Both of these BMW factory efforts were overseen by team manager Bertie Hauser.
Davies said, "One thing I tried working on this year was exiting the pits. I watched video of last year's race and saw that I wasn't being aggressive enough there so I made sure to run faster through the long pit exit. During the race it's hard to figure out exactly where you are with the other riders around you."
Rapp, second-place finisher in the 2007 FX championship, said, "We had a new team but everything went quite well, except for a miscue with one of our pit stops when I was sent back out. I still got on the podium again so that's the main thing. The tyres are even better than last year so the season looks good."
Pegram said, "We considered whether or not we could do the race in one stop. Fortunately, the team called me in and the bike was running out so I'm glad we did that or we wouldn't have made it."

Pirelli's historic sweep of first through sixth in the Daytona 200, with the Diablo Superbike Slicks, follows on the heels of last year's sweep of the podium.

Race Standings

	Rider	Bike	Team	Tyres	Race time
1	C. Davies	Kawasaki ZX-6R	Attack Performance	Pirelli	122'04.105
2	S. Rapp	Kawasaki ZX-6R	Attack Performance	Pirelli	18.921
3	L. Pegram	Ducati 848	Pegram Racing	Pirelli	1 lap
4	M. Cardenas	GSX-R600	M4 EMGO	Pirelli	1 lap
5	R. Cooper	BMW HP2	BMW AG	Pirelli	2 lap
6	B. Parriott	BMW HP3	San Jose BMW	Pirelli	2 lap
7	B. Fong	GSX-R600	Safety First		2 lap
8	B. Skubic	Yamaha YZF R6	Inotherm		2 lap
9	S. Atlas	CBR 600RR	Corona		3 lap
10	F. Amantini	Kawasaki ZX-6R			3 lap