Ashmead To Be Remembered At 2023 Daytona 200

[oldironnow]

https://www.roadracingworld.com/news/motoamerica-john-ashmead-r-i-p-to-be-honored-at-daytona-200/

https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1989/6/1/daytona-superbike-200

[hacksaw]

not a fan of honda vfr. and cant recall ever hearing of this guy.
but if he won the 200 as a privateer, i am totally impressed.
RIP. cancer sucks, but obviously as a racer Ashmead didn't.

[motogrady]

hacksaw wrote

not a fan of honda vfr. and cant recall ever hearing of this guy.
but if he won the 200 as a privateer, i am totally impressed.
RIP. cancer sucks, but obviously as a racer Ashmead didn't.

Gone at 59.  Holy crap.  

I was there in 2015.  
There wasn’t really any factory entered.
The few top guys, Eslick and the like were basically running
out of small shops and their garages.  

I remember thinking, if there is any silver lining to the sad
effing state of RR in the states right now, is the possibility of almost anyone winning the big ones.

Class C racing defined.