With the start of the 2011 AMA Pro Road Racing season just one month away race team preparations are picking up and the silly season is winding down, making it a good time to recap who will be riding what during the coming season. In this second part of our team and rider roll call, we cover the AMA Pro Daytona SportBike class. For starters, there will be a new Champion in 2011, as last year’s AMA Pro Daytona SportBike Champion Martin Cardenas is moving up to the Superbike class on a Team M4 Suzuki GSX-R1000. Team M4 Suzuki has reloaded, however, with Dane Westby, who placed fifth in the 2010 Daytona SportBike Championship with five podium appearances and 11 top-five finishes on a Yamaha. Westby, a second generation Pro racer, will ride a new, 2011 GSX-R600 this season and will be teamed with multi-time Colombian National Champion and multi-time CCS Regional Champion Santiago Villa, who will compete under the Team Roadracingworld.com Suzuki banner. Danny Eslick, the runner-up in the 2010 DSB title hunt and the 2009 DSB Champion, will return for his third year with the GEICO Powersports RMR Suzuki team, but he will be working with a new Crew Chief this season, Frank Aragaki, who served as M4 Suzuki Superbike Crew Chief for John Hopkins and Jake Holden in 2010. Vesrah Suzuki has retained the services of Cory West for the new year. West, a former AMA Pro Superbike Rookie of the Year, finished sixth in the 2010 Daytona SportBike point standings with two visits to the podium. West will be partnered with Taylor Knapp, who finished seventh in the 2010 AMA Pro Superbike Championship (including three top-five finishes) while riding an ex-Mat Mladin Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000. Privateer rider/team owner Mike Morgan also plans to ride his Autolite RIM Racing Suzuki GSX-R600 in six to seven rounds of the Daytona SportBike Championship, in addition to competing in the entire Vance & Hines XR1200 series. Josh Herrin, a five-race winner and Championship contender last year, will return with Graves Yamaha. The team will also work with 2010 WERA National Challenge Series 600cc Superstock Champion Benny Solis, Jr. this season, but it is undecided as to whether Solis will race in SuperSport or Daytona Sportbike, according to Solis’ father, Ben Solis. Yamaha will also field Tommy Aquino in Daytona SportBike. Aquino, the seventh-place finisher in the 2010 Daytona SportBike Championship, will operate out of the same yet-to-be-named team as Superbike rider Chris Clark. AMA Pro SuperSport East Championship runner-up Huntley Nash will step up to the DSB class in 2011 thanks to support from Yamaha Extended Service (YES). Cameron Beaubier, a former Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup Champion and a contender for the 2010 AMA Pro SuperSport East Championship, will also move up to Daytona SportBike on a Crozier Motorsports Yamaha put together by Mark Crozier, who formerly was the co-owner of the DNA Energy Drink/CnR Motorsports team in 2010. Also riding Yamahas this season will be Paul Allison, Melissa Paris and Jake Zemke. Allison, a former ASRA SportBike National Champion, will ride for the same team he rode for last season, but the team’s name has changed from Chronic Motor Sports to Triple Crown Industries. Paris, the wife of 2010 AMA Pro Superbike Champion Josh Hayes, will race for her own team, MPH Racing, with HT Moto as the title sponsor. Zemke, a former Daytona 200 winner and AMA Formula Xtreme Champion, has been signed to ride Project 1 Atlanta’s Yamaha in the Daytona 200, but the team’s plans beyond that race are dependent on finding more sponsorship. There will be at least four Ducati 848EVOs entered in the class, including Celtic Racing/Fast By Ferracci’s P.J. Jacobsen, who led a Daytona SportBike race last season (his rookie season) and was fastest during the weather-shortened Dunlop tire test at Daytona International Speedway in January. DNA Energy Drink/Roberson Motorsports is scaling back to a single rider, Jake Holden, this year, leaving Daytona SportBike race winner Bobby Fong and 2010 AMA Pro SuperSport West Champion Joey Pascarella without rides in AMA Pro Racing. Veteran Jason DiSalvo has joined the Latus Motors Racing team. DiSalvo rode for teams in the FIM Supersport World Championship and the WERA National Endurance Championship and took a top-10 finish in a one-off wild card appearance in the Moto2 World Championship last season. Regular AMA privateer Barrett Long and his long-time supporter Desmomaniacs/Ducati Miami will run a Ducati 848EVO all season long in DSB. Cycle World Attack Performance Kawasaki has entered 2010 AMA Pro SuperSport East Champion J.D. Beach in the Daytona 200, but the team currently has no plans to enter additional rounds unless additional sponsorship materializes. As this is written, Michael Beck, Bobby Fong, Steve Rapp and Clinton Seller do not have rides in Daytona SportBike–or any AMA Pro class–for 2011. Beck collected five top-10 finishes on his DNA Energy Drink/CNR Motorsports Ducati last year. Fong won the closest road race in AMA Pro history last season at VIR, finished on the podium three other times, led at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca but was not re-signed by the DNA Energy Drink/Roberson Motorsports team. Rapp finished on the podium seven times (including four runner-up finishes) and placed fourth in the 2010 DSB Championship standings, but that was not enough for him to keep his ride at Latus Motors Racing. Series rookie Seller reached the AMA Pro DSB podium two times on his Project 1 Atlanta Yamaha YZF-R6 and co-rode to the WERA National Endurance Mediumweight Superbike Championship for Team Zyvax R6, but he was unable to secure a ride in either series for 2011 and has returned to his home country of South Africa.