woman races Daytona 200 in 2009

 
A woman was slated to race in the 2009 Daytona 200.

I've seen her name listed variously as Melissa Paris, Melissa Hayes,
or Paris Hayes.

She was gonna be riding a Yamaha, number plate 413.

Anyone know if she qualified, and if she did, in what position did she
qualify?

I did see her listed as Melissa Paris in practice, with best practice
lap time of  1:54.581

I'd sure like to know how she qualified, and GOOGLE hasn't produced
the results for me.

               Lee

 On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:06:22 -0800 (PST), "carkenord@juno.com"


Her name is Melissa Paris, but she's actually Josh Hayes' wife.  They
race together quite a bit in various endurance series and whatnot and
she also races in CCS.  She likely qualified for a Pro license by
winning the CCS national championship last year (by winning the single
Race Of Champions event at Daytona).

I have no idea what her qualifying times are this week.  Do they even
have a cutoff percentage for the D200 this year?

 
She qualified 38th (of 75) and finished 22nd. She also beat her
husband.

Not bad, for her first "pro" race.

-jim