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Zlock Racing and Synergy Honda are both missing in action at Daytona, Zlock missing the Formula USA finale for the first time in at least six years.

Zlock had a disastrous weekend at the Portland, Oregon round in August, with riders Ty Howard and John Haner both crashing and unable to compete.

Howard is at Daytona, riding a Shogun YZF-R6 in the Sportbike class.

Both Synergy Honda riders are injured, according to Formula USA’s Kenny Abbott, with Matt Wait still recovering from serious injuries suffered at Daytona last March and Wait having recently broken a wrist.

Wait rode in practice at Portland but was unable to race; Wait said at the time that his left arm–badly broken in his crash last March–was still too sore and too weak.