Team Byrd Training Facility Race Report from Dayonta ATVSX
- Updated: March 17, 2015
This First ATV SX at Daytona turned out to be a stellar experience. It was so awesome to race at the same venue as several legends have!! Team BTF had admirable results. Joe Byrd, came out of the gates in Heat 1 and got tangled up with Weinen and Upperman in the Holeshot turn, he quickly got untangled and came out 6th then worked himself up to 2nd for the Heat #1 finish. After getting 4th gate pick for the Main Event, Joe Byrd started good with his Dasa powered Honda but got stuffed into the same turn as the first Heat, he then went from mid pack for 4th place finish. Team BTF is happy with a 4th place finish, considering all the bad weather in Tennessee and we scrambled to get the race bike thrown together and dialed in just days before Daytona. Joe is hoping to have his quad all dialed in by Round 1 at Echeconnee MX on March 21st.
Rookie in the Pro Class, Vital Cazanave got a respectable 6th in the first heat and ended up finishing 9th in the Main Event.
Cam Covil raced the ProAm class after being off for 8 months, after a back injury at the Nationals in Ohio… He ended winning his heat, but after his girlfriend wrecked in her heat, he decided to not race the Main Event since it wasn’t for points and went to the hospital with her. We look forward to seeing this young man do great things in the near future.
Kirkland Jack, raced a 450 for the first time in Nationals. He ran Production B and 450B. In the first heat for 450B the track was really muddy and he crashed on the 1st lap passing for 2nd. In the heat for Production B he was 4th on the start and worked his way back up the pack and won. In the Main Event for 450B he had a bad gate pick and tried to work his way up to the very front, but ended up getting 2nd. In the Main Event for Production B he pulled the Holeshot and checked out.
Dylan Messenger raced Pro Sport and Pro Am and got landed on in Pro Sport and his quad was taken out. In Pro Am, Dylan made his debut and ended up finishing in 7th.
Joe Byrd Sponsors:
Dasa, Dynamic Grpahix, BTF, Joe Byrd Quad Riding School, Six 5 design, Golden Motorsports, FourWerx, Scott, Works, WebCam, Hinson, Powermadd, SIDI, ProArmor, Streamline, Precision, Renthal, Lonestar, Fly, Leatt, DWT, Josh Fulcher for wrenching for the weekend, and Chris Williams of Williams Performance for working late hours to get this quad thrown together and wrenching at Daytona.
