"Most all of these dirt trackers here want to be road racers.
For some reason, I'm a road racer and I want to be a dirt tracker."
– Nicky Hayden, August 21, 1999.
Nicky Hayden
won the first of
six-career AMA
Grand National
Flat Track races
on the Hager-
stown Half Mile
in Maryland in
1999.
Nicky (69) fires off the line at the
start of the Springfield Mile in
front of a packed house.
PHOTOS
BY
BERT
SHEPARD
