Cycle News Staff | March 4, 2010
LTD Racing’s Joey Pascarella (Yam) will start the season-opening SuperSport race from the pole position after setting fast time, then crashing in Thursday morning qualifying at a sunny, but chilly Daytona International Speedway.”The lap that I did, I didn’t think was that fast,” Pascarella said. “I was just riding around to be honest with you.” He added that had he not crashed after his fast lap, “For sure I could faster.”Pascarella said that the “lap that I crashed I was going to pull in.””I know I have quite a bit more speed in me. Hopefully it warms up so I can show it. The track’s so cold and everybody’s having a hard time going fast.”Pascarella lapped the 3.51-mile road course with a time of 1:43.728 mins. The lap was nearly .7 secs. better than second fastest J.D. Beach of Rockwall Yamaha Performance.Beach was less than a tenth of a second in front of his teammate, and fellow former Red Bull Rookie, Cameron Beaubier, in only his third ride on a 600. Last year Beaubier raced the 125cc World Championship for the Red Bull KTM team.LTD Racing’s Jake Gagne (Yam) and Tomas Puerta (Yam) round out the top five.
Supersport Qualifying:
1. Joey Pascarella (Yamaha) 1:43.728
2. J.D. Beach (Yamaha) 1:44.067
3. Cameron Beaubier (Yamaha) 1:44.165
4. Jake Gagne (Yamaha) 1:44.510
5. Tomas Puerta (Yamaha) 1:44.621
6. Huntley Nash (Yamaha) 1:45.398
7. Elena Myers (Suzuki) 1:56.036
8. Daniel Guevara (Yamaha) 1:56.286
9. Charlie Long (Suzuki) 1:56.626
10. San Nash (Yamaha) 1:57.897
