DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — At the end of the 30-minute Q2, Tyler Scott and his D3O M4 ECSTAR Suzuki GSXR-750 stood atop the time sheets with a 1:49.134 fastest lap during qualifying for the Daytona 200 at Daytona Int’l Speedway.
Scott led Celtic/Economy Lube + Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati rider Darryn Binder’s time of 1:49.344 and Rahal Ducati Moto with XPEL rider P.J. Jacobsen’s third-fastest time of 1:49.891.
Mission Foods M4 ECSTAR Suzuki rider Richie Escalante remains in fourth at 1:50.119 followed by Daytona 200 rookie, Rahal Ducati Moto with Roller Die + Forming’s Alessandro Di Mario. Di Mario has kept solid pace with the experienced Supersport riders around him all weekend and locked himself into the Supersport Time Attack in his first Supersport appearance.
However, the bigger stories here are the riders who came from outside the top 12 to put themselves into the Supersport Time Attack.
Celtic/Economy Lube + Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati rider Wristin Grigg was 15th after Q1 and was able to better his time to a 1:50.860 for ninth, and a spot in the Supersport Time Attack.
BPR Racing Yamaha’s Josh Hayes sat 17th after Q1 and was able to move into 11th at a 1:51.278. Liberty Yamaha’s Dominic Doyle rounded out the top 12, and the field was set for the 15-minute Supersport Time Attack.
As the 15-minute Supersport Time Attack began, all previous lap times for the top 12 riders were reset. The battle for a front-row start intensified as riders broke into the 1:48s for the first time at the event.
Tyler Scott secured pole position for the third year in a row at the Daytona 200. The 20-year-old Pennsylvanian has a knack for qualifying here at the “World Center of Racing” and dropped the pace to 1:48.908 in the Time Attack.
The only other rider to drop into the 1:48s was Rahal Ducati Moto with XPEL rider PJ Jacobsen at 1:48.944 with his teammate Rahal Ducati Moto with Desnuda Organic Tequila rider Josh Herrin completing the front row in third with a 1:49.455.
Darryn Binder has been near the front of qualifying all weekend and will start fourth for the Daytona 200. The Celtic/Economy Lube + Tire/Warhorse HSBK rider laid down a 1:49.598 on his Ducati Panigale V2. He is followed by Mission Foods M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante in fifth and Rahal Ducati Moto with Roller Die + Forming’s Alessandro Di Mario in sixth with a 1:50.211.
The third row is led by veteran BPR Racing Yamaha rider Josh Hayes in seventh, followed by Rahal Ducati Moto with Droplight’s Kayla Yaakov in eighth and Celtic/Economy Lube + Tire/Warhorse HSBK’s Wristin Grigg in ninth.
Rounding out the Supersport Time Attack is an all-international fourth row of Team Classic Suzuki’s Danny Webb from the UK in 10th, Liberty Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle from South Africa in 11th, and PHR Performance Triumph’s Peter Hickman from the UK in 12th.
