1974 Daytona Preview - 6-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article

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1974 Daytona Preview - 6-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article
Original, vintage magazine article
Page Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each page
Condition: Good
Daytona Beach. City of the fast
track. The one race that every dis-
tributor wants to win because a win
here means more, advertising-wise,
than any other. It means more than
anything other than winning the
number one plate the year before.
Whole ad budgets are built around
this race; Yamaha has been doing it
for years with their wins in the
250cc race. What with winning the
200 Miler the last two years they’ve
had more to advertise than ever be-
fore, and they’ve done it.
Daytona. A magic name. And
names' from the past. Resweber,
Hammer, Hailwood, White, Kretz,
Reiman, Andres, Leonard, and the
list could go on. Just about every
top bike racer at one time or
another made it down to the
“Beach” to try their hand at win-
ning the big one, the 200 Miler.
In the beginning the race was
held on the “beach course,” so
named because it was run on the
beach. Never let it be said that the
AMA wasn’t quick on the uptake of
names. Today, however, the course
is the international road racing
course utilizing part of the speed
bowl and portions of the infield of
Daytona International Speedway, a
truly impressive racing plant.
The course itself is fairly simple
from a rider’s standpoint. With the
exception of one corner in the in-
field all the turns are basically
slow-speed hairpins. The one fast...
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