as Kawasaki ever swept a Pro Honda Oils
Supersport podium? Maybe, but no one
could remember when. And certainly
never when one of the podium trio
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had a broken hand.
Kawasaki's Roger Lee Hayden won his second Supersport race of the year. But it was his
older brother Tommy who had the best day.
Two weeks after breaking a bone in his right
hand in the Superstock race at Mazda Raceway
Laguna Seca, and days after thinking he couldn't
ride, Tommy hounded his little brother to second
on a sultry afternoon at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car
Course. The result meant he lost minimal points
in the chase for what he hopes to be a second
consecutive Supersport championship.
"For me, it was as good as a win," Tommy
Hayden said.
Two days before he left Owensboro, Kentucky,
Tommy wasn't sure he could ride.
'" couldn't do anything with it [his hand]," he said.
Tommy rode his ZX-6RR as little as possible early in the
weekend and opted out of the Superstock class. Top 10 was
the best he was hoping for on Saturday. But as the weekend
progressed, so did the hand. And in the race, he found him-
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