(NEWS RELEASE)

Daytona Beach, Florida: From the Daytona 200 to the XR1200 class, all seven races on the high banks of Daytona International Speedway, during the 72nd annual races at “The Beach,” were won by motorcycles using one brand of shock: Öhlins. Also, by choice and performance, Öhlins riders made huge use of the advantage of advanced suspension technology by sweeping the podiums in six of the seven road races this year, including a sweep of riders on the lead lap of the Daytona 200. If a rider completed 200 miles in the 72nd Daytona 200, that rider was riding on Öhlins.

Cameron Beaubier rode his Yamaha Extended Service, Graves, Yamaha to a dominating win in the Daytona 200, followed by the Yamahas of teammate Garrett Gerloff, and Triple Crown/RMR’s Bobby Fong, rounding out the podium of the GoPro Daytona Sportbike class. Two more Yamahas finished on the lead lap beneath teammates Jake Gagne and JD Beach from the RoadRace Factory.

In the AMA Pro National Guard Superbike double-header races, the podium sweep of Öhlins riders was a surprise order in Race One of Monster Energy Graves Yamaha rider Josh Herrin taking the win over Yoshimura Suzuki’s Martin Cardenas, with a reinvigorated Larry Pegram on his Pegram Racing Yamaha taking third. In Race Two it was the same three, but in order as Cardenas, Herrin, Pegram.

In the AMA Pro Motorcycle-SuperStore.com SuperSport class, Stefano Mesa won Race One on Friday while David Sadowski Jr. earned second place and Hayden Gillim took a hard-fought third from the six-bike pack crossing the finish line with a scant difference of 0.274 seconds between them. In comparison, the one-second advantage at the finish line in Race Two on Saturday seemed huge for Tomas Puerta, on his RoadRace Factory Yamaha.

The AMA Pro Vance & Hines XR1200 class was classic, with nine riders crossing the finish line within a second of each other. Lead changes happened numerous times each lap but at the end it was Tyler O’Hara earning the win with Öhlins shocks on his bike, hounded by the Öhlins fitted second and third-place finishers of Kyle Wyman and Bobby Fong.

Öhlins congratulates its winners, podium finishers, nearly podium finishers, and all competitors, large and small, for an excellent weekend of racing on The High Banks.

Öhlins USA distributes and services the world’s leading performance suspension components for automobiles, motorcycles, and ATVs. Öhlins develops its proprietary and trend-setting suspension components, steering dampers and oils, at the highest levels of racing from open-wheel car racing, to Moto GP, to off-road competition on two and four wheels. Öhlins USA also provides training for service centers and dealers. Öhlins USA can be contacted at: 828-692-4525; www.Ohlinsusa.com.