Daytona, FL (October 16, 2009)– Joey Pascarella qualified on the front row for the AMA Pro SuperSport National Championship Shootout at the Daytona International Speedway and his three LTD Racing teammates joined him inside the top eleven qualifiers. Tomas Puerta and Huntley Nash will start on the second row for LTD Racing, with Jake Gagne qualifying on the third row.

The season finale, which will determine 2010's AMA Pro SuperSport champion, is a 12-lap shootout at the “World Center of Racing.”

Pascarella, who finished second at the spring race at the Speedway, was quick from the beginning of the weekend and showed his aggressive style early on. He was able to lap at 1:52.952 on the 3.51-mile configuration of the circuit. “The top two guys, (Josh) Day and (Leandro) Mercado, are really fast but we made it on the front row and we're looking to stick with them and make it a race on Sunday,” said Pacarella. “I had to miss New Jersey due to a Supermoto commitment, but it feels great to be back on my bike again. Tomas and I rode around in the qualifying session and we were both riding hard and getting some drafts, not really worrying about anything other than getting faster. It should be a good race on Sunday.”

"Tomy" Puerta has raced well at Daytona in the past and earned another second-row start with his performance on Friday. He was just 0.004 behind Joey to take fifth place with a time of 1:52.956. “It was a hard qualifying," said the Colombian racer. "I needed a draft to better my time and I didn't take it ... so, second row for us. We'll see how it goes on Sunday," he added. "We will work with the setup tomorrow and look to get even faster.”

Huntley Nash qualified eighth with a mark of 1:54.257 as “Hunt” set his best time in the closing moments of the session after he improved his lap times throughout the first day of official practice at DIS. “The second row is a pretty good place to be here if you can stick with the draft," said Nash. "Joey and I seem to qualify fourth and eighth all the time and that's what we were at the last race here. I felt good [today] and my last lap was the best one. I rode most of the time by myself and I was working on my riding. On my fastest lap, I tried a few things and it worked, so I need to be doing that all the time.”

Jake Gagne set the eleventh-fastest time in qualifying, the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup racer making his Daytona debut on the LTD Racing Yamaha R6. Gagne performed very respectably in his second-ever race weekend on a 600cc machine, posting his lap of 1:55.106 on Friday. “It's getting better every time out but I have just struggled with the track and the bike my first time here,” said Jake. “The team and I are continuing to work hard and we have tomorrow to keep getting better for the race.”

On Saturday, the LTD Racing team will have one practice session in the morning. The race is scheduled for 12:00 PM Sunday.