No bike could legally win the way our Z-1 did at Daytona. So they thought.
To run in the open class race at Daytona a bike must look stock, have stock displacement, and be street legal. So when a bike wins that race by performing like a full fledged GP bike, eyebrows are naturally going to be raised. That's what happened with our Dale-Starr equipped Z-1 Kawasaki, when David Aldana won at Daytona with a giant half a lap lead. "Impossible...", said one rider, and contested our bike, even after it had been torn down and certified legal by the AMA officials...
1975 Dale-Starr equipped Z-1 Kawasaki / David Aldana Daytona win Ad available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
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