All the big to do – Video – Daytona SportBike race 2 | AMA Pro
- From: TRS Media | Published: March 23rd, 2009 - 1:03 am
Eslick, Hacking and DiSalvo – Jamie’s not doing so good…after this he was suspended indefinitely. The specific remarks are not on tape (unfortunately)…more to come
Post Race Press Conference Transcript – Daytona SportBike:
Danny Eslick (#9 Bruce Rossmeyer’s RMR Buell, winner):
Q. Danny, it looked a little bit rougher today, but still a good run. When did you feel Jamie coming up to you?
A. I don’t even know exactly when it was, but he was there for a good few laps. I think I had maybe two seconds at one point. I’m not real sure. And then it just kept getting smaller. I tried to put my head down. I made a lot more mistakes today than I did yesterday, and he was right there. I was waiting – waiting for something. I was waiting for him to make a move and try to figure out what I could do, and I haven’t – fortunately, I haven’t been behind these guys all weekend, so it’s been – It would’ve been a different ball game if he would’ve snuck in there on me, because I wouldn’t have known where to try to make a move on him. I just want to thank the Bruce Rossmeyer RMR Buell, Geico Powersports, and everybody with the team. Thank you.
Q. Great weekend. You went two for two and kind of recovered from a Daytona result that puts you back in the points, which is good as we head into the balance of the season.
Jamie Hacking (#88 Attack Kawasaki, second place):
Q. Jamie, outstanding run today. In one lap, you were getting as much as four-tenths, half a second catching him, but maybe not enough time left in the race. Talk a little bit about your run.
A. For us, it’s a win in our eyes. We made some improvements overnight with the bike. I had to start the race there with a completely new setup I hadn’t even ridden yet. So it took me a while. That’s why I kind of fell back amongst those guys, and trying to figure out the machine, the new handling package that I had. It definitely was a little bit better than yesterday, and I managed to settle in and put some good hard laps in. I didn’t think I was going to really reel him in, but I guess my laps were about consistent, and I saw him coming back to me, and I just started pushing hard, hard. The whole way I’m coming up on him, I’m trying to figure out what I want to do when I got to him. I knew I could get to him, but getting by him was going to be another task. I put everything I could in that last lap there. Coming off the last corner, I knew that was going to be my only bid. I knew there wasn’t no point in trying to pass him anywhere else. He probably would’ve just passed me every little straightaway. So I thought I’d best give him a long shot there on the last lap coming out of the last corner, and I gave it all she had. The Monster Energy Kawasaki ZX-6R just didn’t have it today. Maybe we’ll make some more improvements and go to Atlanta and see if we can’t pick up that few little more tenths that we need.
[Brief inaudible conversation between DiSalvo and Eslick. DISALVO CLAIMS HE DID NOT SAY ANYTHING IN THIS BRIEF INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION]
Q. You took the points lead this weekend, extended it a little bit today, and you also set the fastest race lap at 1:28.059 on that Kawasaki. So outstanding run today.
A. That’s all that counts. Set fast lap and lead points.
Q. It definitely counts for something.
Jason DiSalvo (#40 M4 Suzuki, third place):
Q. Jason, we saw you quite a bit in Daytona. Now you’re joining us on the last session here for the weekend. Great run. You pulled out some fireworks there. Talk about your run on your teammate, as you came down to the finish.
A. Both the M4 Suzukis were really strong today. Both me and MartÃn were making our way through that pack of guys. I had – I just really couldn’t get going on the start of the race, and fell back behind, I think, one of the Aprilias. I was way back there. Those guys, I was back behind them, and they had a gap, and I had to get through and chase them down and then work through them. By the time I got there and got to the back of the pack, I saw I had three laps – three laps to go.
[Inaudible conversation between Hacking and Eslick]
DISALVO: Hey, I’m doing a little interview here.
[Laughter from the audience.]
By the time I got to the back of those guys, there was three laps to go, and I had three guys in front of me. So I said, “Three laps, three guys. I gotta get one guy each lap.”
[Inaudible conversation between Eslick and Hacking]
DISALVO: Hey. [Laughter from the audience] Did I talk during your thing? Answer my question. Did I talk during your thing?
MODERATOR: All right, guys.
HACKING: Do you have a microphone? They can hear you. Continue, son
MODERATOR: Let’s finish up the interview. Let’s be respectful.
DISALVO: Let’s get a little respect here. So anyway -
HACKING: I lost all respect for you a long time ago.
DISALVO: I never had any for you.
[and they drop to the floor and started throwing punches...OK not really but that would have been cool]
MODERATOR: Hey, we’re not going to get into it here. Let Jason finish his interview and then we’re going to have questions. Thank you.
DISALVO: So. Got me all fired up here.
MODERATOR: You were talking about the pass and how you came up on Martin.
DISALVO: Yeah. Me and Martin came off the last corner. It was M4 Suzuki versus M4 Suzuki. I just tried to set him up and get as good a drive as I could off the last turn. We made the draft work today. That was it. We got it done. The M4 Suzuki had what it took coming to the line.
MODERATOR: Thank you. Questions, please?
Q. What about the track conditions from yesterday to today, with the rains overnight? How did that affect your setup for today?
ESLICK: We ran the same exact setup from yesterday. The track was just a little bit greener than yesterday. That’s really about it. Not too much different. Little lower track temperature. That’s probably all.
Q. Jamie, how much, if any, could you use the draft off his Buell when you were getting up that close?
HACKING: Zero. (nice!)
March 24th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
disalvo did not say anything during hacking’s interview. eslick said something and disalvo just smiled. he didn’t say a word.
at the same time, he was a bit of a punk to hacking. he should watch his mouth cause hacking would stomp a mud hole in his dwarf ass if called upon