At Daytona, Anthony Gobert and the slimmed-down and revamped Yamaha team have been impressive, with Gobert fast on both his R6 and his R7. Race team manager Keith McCarty believes the decision to put all the team's resources behind Gobert is a good one.

"I think everything has been a positive move," McCarty said from Daytona. "It's expensive to go Superbike racing and the way World Superbike is changing rules in the future and things like that come into play when you're trying to make those decisions and we thought it was the thing to do. We definitely added some resources in terms of people. I think we've accomplished that so far."

McCarty feels Gobert could be the 18th different Daytona 200 winner for the company this spring. "Yamaha's done very, very well here, and I'd certainly like to keep that tradition up."

Longtime Yamaha man Tom Halverson is now the Superbike crewchief/team manager Tony Romo is the lead mechanic and the team is taking delivery of their swank new race trailer next week.