Millennium Aprilia's Chaz Davies suffered electrical problems which ruled him out of a podium finish in a re-started AMA Daytona Sportbike race at the controversial Heartland Park, Topeka last weekend.

Paired with Aaron Gobert, Davies put his Aprilia in Superpole with the second fastest time of the session, only a few hundredths of a second from provisional pole. Gobert struggled in the beginning of the session, but put in a great lap at the end and only missed putting the 97 Aprilia RSV in Superpole for the first time this year by a fraction of the a second. In the Superpole competition, Davies turned a lap of 1:39.702 for sixth place on the outside of the third row.

Race one was going very well when Davies slotted into the second position on lap two. Unfortunately the race was stopped for a crash and the race was completely restarted. The second restart didn’t go as well for the Millennium Technologies sponsored team when Davies was pushed wide and fell back to seventh. Davies put his head down and fought his way back to fourth place. This was his  sixth top-five finish of the year.

Race two started very similarly to Race one, in that both Aprilia riders got great starts with Chaz moving up to fourth place only to have the race stopped due to a crash by another rider. After the re-start Davies once again went to the front only to retire a few laps later with an electrical problem.

“It was nice to get another top five result, but I am very disappointed with the result from Sunday’s race. The bike was so much better than the bike we rode on Saturday and I feel that we had a bike to win, but it didn’t work out. We took a gamble with some untested electronic parts and we lost. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. We will get it figured out for VIR. Thanks to Rocky Stargel and Jimmy Le for all their hard work," said Davies.