Daytona SportBike Race One was both positive and negative for the Millennium Technologies sponsored Aprilia team. Chaz Davies finished in the eighth position and turned a lap time of 1:28.585 approximately seven tenths off the fastest lap of the race set by Martin Cardenas. Thompson continued to bear the brunt of the growing pains of a new team, developing a new bike when he suffered a mechanical issue in the race and was forced to retire.

After a late night to repair Thompsons injured motorcycle and with the threat of rain in the morning the LeoVince sponsored KWS Motorsports Aprilia team went into Sunday confident that progress could be made on the previous day’s results. Thompson was going to have to start near the back in the field and knew he had a difficult race to run, but desperately needed the track time. Davies’s crew chief Rocky Stargel made changes to the #57 bike in hopes that a little extra speed would propel the young Englishman to the podium.   

In Race Two both riders got excellent starts. Thompson made up a several positions by going around the outside of many slower riders on the entry to the first chicane. Thompson lowered his best lap time of the weekend by over a half a second to finish in the seventeenth position. Davies also got a good start and rode hard for the first few laps but was unable to hook up with the lead group. Davies led the second group for the entire race to finish in the seventh position.

Chaz Davies – “It was a good weekend and we definitely made progress with the bike. Rocky and Jimmy are brilliant to work with and I can’t thank them enough. We still have a lot of stuff to test, but if we can make a few more small steps forward then we can be really competitive at Atlanta in two weeks.”    

Ben Thompson – “The team is working really hard and we are making progress, but I am suffering from a lack of track time. You are bound to have problems when developing a new motorcycle at this level, we just keep having problems at the wrong time. I have 100% confidence that the KWS Motorsport team will get this sorted and we will be up front at Atlanta.”

Kevin Hunt (Team Owner) – “We are very encouraged by Chaz’s performance with the bike this early in the development cycle. We are still having growing pains with Ben’s bike and we have not given him the tools he needs to be successful, but I have no doubt that Michael and crew will sort these issues and Ben will be up front with Chaz soon.”

The Factory Aprilia Millennium Technologies Team is proudly sponsored by:
Aprilia USA, Millennium Technologies, KWS Motorsports, Pit Bull, LeoVince Exhaust, Motion Pro, Bazzaz Performance, Sebimoto Bodywork, Yoyodyne, Slednecks, EK Chains, Motul, Performance Friction Brakes, Worldwide Bearing, K&N Filters, Zero Gravity Windscreens, Suzuka Tire Warmers, Stomp Grip, Hel Brake Lines, Spider Grips and ASV Inventions.

For Information:  http://www.kwsapriliaracing.com