The Los Angeles Times has declared Mat Mladin the winner of the 2005 Daytona 200. According to Shav Glick’s Motor Racing column in the March 18 edition of the Los Angeles Times daily newspaper, “Aussie Mat Mladin took a big step toward winning his sixth AMA superbike championship by winning the Daytona 200 for the fourth time. Mladin…rode a Yoshimura Suzuki to a 3.4-second win over England’s Neil Hodgson.”