Josh Herrin wins fourth straight Daytona 200 cycle race, 5th overall

The Josh Herrin era isn’t even close to being over at Daytona International Speedway.

The 35-year-old California native rewrote Daytona’s two-wheel record book yet again Saturday, capturing his fourth straight Daytona 200, North America’s most historic motorcycle race, dating back to the 1930s on the old beach-and-road course.

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And this time, Herrin was almost literally in a class of his own. He jockeyed his No. 2 Ducati to a 38-second margin of victory over Tyler Scott, on the No. 70 Suzuki.

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The Daytona 200 is, by far, the longest race in big-league cycle racing. While “normal” motorcycle races are sprints of 30-45 minutes, without pit stops, the 200 consists of 57 laps around Daytona’s 3.51-mile course, and three pit stops.

A year ago, Herrin became the first rider to win Daytona three straight times, and not only increases that record, but also becomes just the third rider to win five total Daytona 200s, joining Scott Russell and Miguel Duhamel.

Rounding out Saturday’s top five, each on a Ducati: Kayla Yaakov, Darryn Binder and Alessandro Di Mario. Yaakov, 18, became the first woman to make the Daytona 200 podium. She got there with a last-lap pass of Binder and finished just a tenth of a second ahead of him.

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Forty-two riders started the race, 33 finished it, and six finished on the lead lap.

The Daytona 200 serves as the season opener for the MotoAmerica Championship’s Supersport Class.

Other Daytona Bike Week winners

Baggers: Hayden Gillim and Troy Herfoss were winners in the pair of Mission King of the Baggers races this past Friday and Saturday. Both were riding an Indian Challenger.

Flat Track: Some of the Bike Week action is also outside of the Speedway, on the dirt flat-track on the west side of Speedway property, where the American Flat Track series visits annually.

Kody Kopp surprised many by winning his debut race in the premier SuperTwins event. He turned around the next night and did it again.

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Tom Drane and Bradon Pfanders were each night’s winners in the AFT Singles, while Emma Gottsch won the women’s developmental series race.

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Daytona 200 winner: Four straight, five overall for Josh Herrin