Daytona Anderson at Streets Of Willow with WSMC Race Review

WSMC put on a great race weekend 2/20-2/21 at Streets Of Willow, Ca.

Daytona Anderson on his Malcolm Smith Motorsports/Repsol backed Honda RS125 took his first shot at the Streets of Willow with the Willow Springs Motorcycle Club (WSMC) on Sunday February 21^st for his second big bike race of the season. With the weather in the low 50s, wind gusts around 30 mph and rain looking imminent it was a challenging first day at the Streets. Daytona started the day off with breaking in the new top end during his first practice session of the day. All appeared to be good with the bike so when Daytona took off for the second practice session he had his sights on running in the low 1’25”s, but with heavy traffic he could only get into the 1’30”s which is way off the pace. 

For the first race Daytona was on his Honda RS125 in the 500cc Super Sport class. Daytona got off to a good start rounding turn 2 in 4^th place. By turn 3 he had moved up another spot to put himself into 3^rd. Working his way into 2^nd turned out to be a challenge against the bigger bike, but by lap 3 Daytona was into 2^nd and checking out from third place. Daytona crossed the finish line in second place with a 13 second plus advantage on 3^rd. At the end of the race it was obvious that Daytona was fired up and ready for a full day of racing.

Daytona had set the stage for a great day of racing with his performance in the first race. Second race up was the 250cc GP class with Daytona on his Honda RS125. Daytona got a great jump from the middle of the grid to put himself all the way up to 4^th thru turn 1. Never intimidated, Daytona made an incredible dive to the inside in turn 3 to take 3^rd place. By the end of the first lap Daytona had muscled his way into 2^nd and set his sights on the leader. Daytona didn’t have the speed to match the leader, but with lap traffic Daytona made incredible passes to close the gap down, but settled for 2nd. With the second race complete and lap times coming down into the low 1’24”s despite the weather, it was obvious Daytona was in the groove.

The 3^rd race of the day was the 500cc Modified Production class. A large grid meant there should be a lot of passing going on. Daytona came thru turn 2 in 3^rd with one of the big bikes in front of him. It didn’t take but a few turns and Daytona had made short work of the bigger bike. Daytona took second place for the third time in as many races. Apparently the bigger bikes don’t like getting beat by the smaller displacement bikes and they protested the 125 racers. They won their protest and the 125 boys were DQ’d.

The final race of the day was Daytona’s premiere class, that being the 125 GP class. Excited to be racing against the same displacement bikes Daytona knew he had better have his game face on. With another great start Daytona came thru turn 1 in 2^nd following close behind the leader. On the second lap the 125 GP racers caught lap traffic from the other classes. Daytona carved his way thru the other bikes and stretched his gap back to 3^rd. Daytona never challenged, finished 2^nd with an 18 second plus advantage over 3^rd place. This was Daytona’s first 125 GP podium of his career, he was very excited.

Thanks to our sponsors; Malcolm Smith Motorsports, Repsol, Next Moto Champion, YRR, JD Designs, Graphics by Uncle Mike, CM Motorsports, Bridgestone, GoPro, Chicken Hawk Tire Warmers, Fastrack Riders, DeCal Works, and Vortex.