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Conboy ended up carding a pair of third-place finishes in the two races. Suzuki GSX-R600 to the front. then pulling away in the latter stages to win by 6.667 seconds. The second race was designated as the feature of the 80th Loudon Classic. with the away." Greenwood said. recalling last purse slightly higher. giving Greenwood a victory in the premier race at his home track for the first time. "I was just trying not to make any year's F-USA Sportbike race where he led every lap. only to throw it away in the final corner of the race. "It feels good." he added, "Last mistakes and get through the slower traffic clean and not throw the race year was a real unfortunate day for me. To lead every lap of the Sport- BRIEFLY••• Daytona Harley-Davidson's Richie Morris will miss the next Thunderbike round of the Formula USA National Road Race Series after breaking his right clavicle and fracturing two ribs in a first lap highside at NHIS. "I won't make VIR for sure." Morris said. "I'll be ready for Kansas." Morris accepted blame for the crash, which caused a chain reaction that took out two other Thunderbikes. It came as he was transitioning from turn 2 to 2A at the front of the pack on the first lap. "The tires were a little colder than I thought." he said. "We came out and got on the gas. It spit me off." The collarbone has about a two-inch separation between the broken bones, so Morris speculated that a plate and screws would be necessary. Kneedraggers.com's Matt Wait ran into a speed bump in defense of his Grand National Championship when he was taken out by a slower rider during Sportbike qualifying on Saturday. Wait broke his right scapula and fractured a few ribs. He said he'll return to his home in northern California on Monday and will visit Dr. Arthur Ting before knowing whether he'll miss the next round of the series at Virginia International Raceway in two weeks. "I was on a flyer, and 1was coming up on a slower rider, and I was halfway past him going through the bowl, and he was already turned in, and he collected the back of my bike," Wait said of the turn-six accident that brought an end to the qualifying session. "I was already looking out of the corner and on my way out. and his front end caught on the rear of my bike and sent me off the track. I wasn't even thinking that nothing was going to happen because I was halfway past the guy. I was fine until the impact. I hit his bike. Then his bike landed on top of me." Arclight Suzuki's Scott Harwell imitated teammate Dave Stanton from the previous round at Mid-America Motorplex: like Stanton, Harwell highsided while in fourth place in the early going of the Sportbike race. Stanton was unhurt, but Harwell didn't get away unscathed. He banged up his right hand so badly that he ruled himself out of the second Sportbike leg. He wanted to collect some points in the Superbike race, the last event of the day, but didn't have the hand strength. "I hit it pretty bad, and it needs to be X-rayed," Harwell said, showing off the puffed up hand. "I tried to put the glove on it and try to just ride around and get some Superbike points. I got on the bike. I just couldn't squeeze the brakes hard enough to ride safe out there, so I didn't do it." As to how it happened, Harwell said, "I just got on the gas too hard exiting one, and it highsided me. It was all my fault. The bike was working perfectly." Harwell said he was going to return to his home lincolnton, North Carolina, to get it checked out on Monday. "If it ain't broke. we'll be at Virginia. n Mike Himmelsbach (81 holds off Mike Niksa (361 and Nate Wait (3511 in the second race. bike race last year and just had a mental lapse in turn 12 and ended up on my helmet instead of on my tires and they thought it looked broken in there, but I said I had to get ready for another race. It was bothering me, but it wasn't something that I thought was going to be a big issue." Lester thought the injury the doctors were seeing was a broken left ulna, the evidence of a Sportbike crash three weeks earlier. Lester missed the second Sportbike leg but tried to go out in Superbike. He made it through six laps when he realized he had to retire, the pain from the heavy downhill braking bringing tears to his eyes. Midcities Motorsports won the Team GTO class of the Loudon Team Challenge, the Suzuki GSX-R750-mounted team of Calvin Martinez, Dave Ebben and Mike Ciccotto completing 100 laps of the 1.6-mile New Hampshire Intemational Speedway to win by more than two laps. New England Motorsports' Mark Reynolds and Chad Healy finished second on an Aprilia RSV- 1ODD, with Performance Cycle's Arthur Wagner Jr.. Ray Bowman and Michael Wingen third, another three laps back. The GTU class went to Hooters Northeast. the Suzuki GSX-R600-equipped team beating Crowbar Racing (Yam) by 28 seconds. Team Lady Luck (Hon) was third. 3K9 Racing beat fellow Suzuki SV650 runners Hooters New Hampshire by four laps in the GTL class. Jerry Wood added to the Wood family bounty by taking the Rising Sun Cycles 250GP on a Yamaha TZ-250. Wood beat a pair of fellow New Englanders, Ridgefield, Connecticut's Chris Reynolds (Hon) and Chester. New Hampshire's Jason Routhier (Yam). The win came in the day's sixth race, after Jerry's sons had won twice earlier. Eric Wood got the ball rolling with a win in the Unlimited GP, aboard his Barden Precision Bearings/Bettencourt Cycles Suzuki GSX-R750. Then Jeff Wood took the first Sportbike race. beating Bettencourt Cycles/Argo Cycles teammate Scott Greenwood. The Greenwood family was also well represented, with Scott adding the Sportbike win to his resume and Dale Greenwood Jr. winning the Diablo 125 GP. Mike Ciccotto ended a string of 26 consecutive races without a mechanical problem on his Hal's H-D/Buell mount when a pushrod tube seal failed on the eighth lap of the first F-USA leg, sending oil up through the cockpit and causing F-USA officials to black flag him. He'd made it up to sixth place when the problem struck. Ciccotto had a spirited discussion with a comer worker outside of tum two then walked back to the pits to prepare for the second leg. Ciccotto had an undiagnosed problem in the second leg but was able to finish 10th. Bettencourt Cycles/Argo Cycle's Scott Greenwood was the big money winner in the Sportbike class. He eamed S1500 for winning the second race, $750 for taking second in the first race, plus another S300 first leg bonus and another $250 by collecting the Traxxion Dynamics Holeshot Award in the second leg, the total running to S2800. Greenwood also earned S1250 for winning the Superbike race. Teammate Jeff Wood came second at $2550. $ 1000 for winning the first leg and a $500 first leg bonus, and $ 1050 for taking second in the second, and another S900 for finishing behind Greenwood in Superbike. Team Celtic Racing's Des Conboy eamed $2200 for his trio of thirds. he said. Dave Stanton found the ground again in New Hampshire, though this time it wasn't his fault. Stanton was chasing the pack on the third lap of the Sportbike race when he unavoidably hit a downed rider exiting the turn six bowl. "He highsided in front of me out of the bowl. I had nowhere to go," Stanton said. "I ran him over." Stanton, who'd started the first race from the ninth row, was back there for the second race after having to start on his backup bike. The second race went better, Stanton, who hadn't raced at Loudon since 1996, finishing 12th. Jim Lester thought he might have aggravated an old injury with his late-race spill in the first Sportbike leg. Instead he found it was a new one. "I thought maybe just really banged the muscle because I fell really hard in the [turn sixl bowl," the Connecticut rider said. "Obviously I did break it." Lester was in a three-way battle with Team Celtic's Des Conboy and Carlo Gagliardo, a first year expert whom Lester's helping, when he missed a shift, losing ground. "Came around the next lap and thought I could make it up to get up with Carlo [Gagliardo] and Des [Conboyl, and I fell in the bowl, The Unlimited GP Amateur race went to local rider Kevin Ruopp (Yam) of New Fallfield, Connecticut. Steam Mortor Cycle Clinic's Hector Jimenez (Hon) was second in front of Yamaha-mounted Bruce Ullerup. Jimenez leads the championship by five points over William Myers and Henry Chin, both absent today, 31-26. Canadian Andrew Nelson had a short day on the Racerhouse.com Honda CBR-600RR. He was out with a mechanical on the fifth lap of the first Sportbike leg. "I lost a cylinder coming over the crest" heading for turn six, Nelson said after pushing the bike back to the pits through the infield tunnel. "There was a big puff of smoke, and I just pulled in." Nelson was hoping to find someone with a spare motorcycle for the second leg but was unsuccessful. The original" Easy Rider," Peter Fonda, led the annual parade of bikes from Weirs Beach in Laconia to the speedway. Fonda and Dennis Hopper created the archetypal biker buddies Captain America and Billy in the 1969 classic Easy Rider. Ie Y Ie e n e vv s JUNE 25. 2003 39