March 6th 2008, Daytona International Speedway - Canadian roadracer and California Superbike School coach Misti Hurst enjoyed an outstanding debut race at Daytona International Speedway last Thursday during the AMA 600 Supersport race.

According to all available sources, Hurst made history during qualifying on Wednesday when aboard her Slednecks Racing, Etechphoto supported Kawasaki ZX6R, she became the first and only woman to ever make an AMA 600 Supersport Grid at the famous Daytona International Speedway. After only an hour of practice on the track she qualified 44th out of 51 riders with a time of 1:48.93. "I'm so stoked that I qualified!" said an excited Hurst, "With all that has gone wrong this week, this is amazing! Thank you to EVERYONE that helped out."

Hurst arrived at Daytona Feb 26th in order to get some practice time on the unfamiliar Daytona speedway during the local CCS races. Unfortunately, after only three sessions her connecting rod broke, pierced the starter, and destroyed her motor. She was on the banking doing approximately 160 mph.

With her spare bike still in Portland, Hurst called motor builder EDR Performance. "Within 4 hours they had the motor dropped, drained, wrapped, secured, delivered to Forward Air and en route to Daytona for me, complete with a "GO MISTI GO" note attached. Those guys rock!" said Hurst.

Her spare EDR motor arrived Tuesday morning and fiancée/mechanic John Parker and Slednecks Racing teammate Josh Galster worked all day to prepare the bike and have it ready for Wednesday's qualifying session.

The 22-lap AMA 600 Supersport race on Thursday saw her move up from 44th position to finish a strong 41st.