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Hal’s Performance Advantage, the speed shop located within Hal’s Harley-Davidson/Buell near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has plans to test and race a Formula Xtreme Buell XB12R with Mike Ciccotto at Daytona International Speedway.

“We’ve definitely got plans,” Hal’s Performance Advantage Team Manager Jim Winters told Roadracingworld.com Wednesday. “We will test at the tire test next week, and we will race in the Daytona 200. From there, we will have to see what happens with money and stuff as to whether or not we will be able to do the rest of the season.”

Erik Buell, founder and Chief Technical Officer of Buell Motorcycle Company, recently told Roadracingworld.com that his company would not be able to support its Buell dealer-based AMA Formula Xtreme race teams as it had in past years.

Winters said his crew intends to do durability testing on its Buell and evaluate Pirelli tires at Daytona next week. The team’s XB12R is close to the same specification as it ended the 2004 AMA season (including the new V-Force air intake system introduced at the Road Atlanta round), according to Winters, except for a few “internal modifications” to increase reliability.

Hal’s Performance Advantage’s Formula USA Thunderbike rider Dan Bilansky will also attend the test at Daytona.

Innovative Motorcycle Research’s Rich Cronrath, which ran Michael Barnes on a Buell XB12R in the 2004 AMA Formula Xtreme series, did not have any solid plans to announce at post time but said he may race Formula Xtreme with Barnes on a dealer-supported Buell in 2005.