ny/OneSpeed Suzuki GSX-R1000.
Szoke rebounded to take his
first win of the 2019 season during
round three of the series at Au-
todrome St-Eustache, in Quebec.
Szoke, the 13-time and defending
Champion, passed Young on the
penultimate lap to win and re-
duced his deficit to Young from 28
to 18 points. Daley took his second
podium appearance with third.
Christof Höfer earned the
maximum points possible during
the BMW Motorrad Boxer Cup
event at the Zolder Circuit while
American teammate Nate Kern
had a tougher outing. In Race One,
Kern suffered a clutch problem on
the grid and then tried to start the
race from behind the field, but in
doing so disobeyed a signal from
race officials and was disqualified.
Höfer, meanwhile, finished third
on track, but because race winner
Arie Vos and runner-up Bram
Lambrechts were wild cards,
Höfer earned 25 points. Race Two
was cancelled due to unsafe race-
track conditions.
Professional Racing
In The U.S.During the 97th running of
the Pikes Peak International Hill
Climb (PPIHC), racer and journal-
ist Rennie Scaysbrook, riding an
Aprilia, won in the Heavyweight cat-
egory and set the fastest time ever
by a motorcycle competitor at the
event, 9:44.963. Chris Fillmore,
who previously held the overall mo-
torcycle course record at 9:49.
and still holds the Middleweight
course record at 10:04.038, won in
the Lightweight category and set a
new record for that division with a
time of 10:20.819 on his KTM 450
SX-F Factory Edition. But all that
was overshadowed by a fatal acci-
dent in the last corner, involving
multi-time winner and motorcycle
record holder Carlin Dunne, who
was running a record-setting pace
until he crashed. Dunne, riding a
Ducati Streetfighter V4 prototype,
was the last motorcycle competitor
to run up the 12.42-mile, 156-turn
course. According to race officials,
Dunne was on pace through the
first timing sectors to complete
the course in an estimated 9:32,
but the four-time class Champion
crashed within sight of the finish
line. Dunne hit a bump, highsided
his Ducati, went off the side of the
mountain, and died from his inju-
ries. He was 36.
Dunne’s crash was the third
fatal accident involving a motorcy-
cle competitor in the last five years,
and race officials are again consid-
ering banning motorcycles from
the historic race. According to an
article appearing at Gazette.com,
the online presence of The Gazette,
Colorado Springs, Colorado's daily
newspaper, PPIHC Executive Di-
rector Megan Leatham wrote an
e-mail to Colorado Springs city of-
ficials and U.S. Forest Service of-
ficials following Dunne's accident
in which she stated that the last
motorcycle had competed in the
event. Two weeks after the inci-
dent, Dunne’s mother Romie Gal-
lardo issued a statement in which
she wrote, “Carlin loved the moun-
tain. She challenged and enticed
him, calling him back again and
again. He gave her due respect.
He was fully aware of her ability to
‘take.’ With that being said, I know
for a fact that he would not want
the motorcycle program to end. He
would want us to learn from this
tragedy. He would encourage the
official accident reconstruction au-
thorities do what they are trained
to do, and for the race officials to
implement additional safety pre-
cautions required.” Stay tuned.
Indian's Bronson Bauman
took the first American Flat Track
(AFT) Twins race win of his career
during the Laconia Short Track,
held on a newly-constructed dirt
track at New Hampshire Motor
Speedway. The race included three
red flags and three restarts. Rog-
er Hayden, riding the Estenson
Racing Yamaha in place of JDBeach, finished eighth in the main
event, after battling with defend-
ing Champion Jared Mees, who
did not finish due to his motorcy-
cle stalling before the final restart.
Honda’s Mikey Rush won the AFTSingles race.
Bauman’s teammate Jared
Mees won at the Lima Half-Mile
over runner-up Jeffrey Carver,
Jr. and third-place Henry Wiles.
Beach returned to flat track ac-
tion in Ohio and took 10th, five
finishing positions ahead of Dan-
ny Eslick on a Harley-Davidson
XR750. KTM’s Shayna Texter
won the AFT Singles race, while
MotoAmerica Junior Cup racer
Dallas Daniels finished 11th in
his professional dirt track debut
with Estenson Racing Yamaha.
James Rispoli rode a Harley-Da-
vidson XG750R to third in the AFT
Production Twins race, which was
won by Chad Cose on a Parkinson
Bros Racing/Ritchie Reynolds Ka-
wasaki Ninja 650.
Beach and Daniels were road
racing at Laguna Seca when the
AFT went racing at the New York
Short Track. Briar Bauman (Bron-
son Bauman’s brother) won on
his Indian in the AFT Twins race.
Carver was the runner-up on his
Indian FTR750, and Wiles took an-
other podium finish with third on
his Indian. Larry Pegram earned
his way into the main event but
DNF due to a mechanical. Hayden
again filled in for Beach, but didn't
qualify for the AFT Twins main
event. Daulton Gauthier won the
AFT Singles race on a Husqvarna
FC450, while Rispoli was 13th on
his Kawasaki.Regional & Club Racing
Scott Greenwood won the
96th Loudon Classic, his fourth
time winning the historic event,
at New Hampshire Motor Speed-
way. Riding his Yamaha YZF-R6,
Greenwood won the 20-lap race
by 8.156 seconds over Yama-
ha-mounted Cole Hall. Green-
wood’s son Sam Greenwood fin-
ished third on another YZF-R6.
Shane Narbonne, the winner of
the last four Loudon Classic rac-
es, went from 18th to second place
but crashed with six laps to go.Milestones
R.I.P.: Mitsuo Ito, who in
1963 became the first Japanese
rider to win a race during the Isle of
Man TT, died July 3 at age 82. Ito
raced from 1959 to 1969, winning
two Grand Prix races and taking
13 podium finishes, before retiring
to work in Suzuki’s racing depart-
ment for decades. He was inducted
into the Motorcycle Federation of
Japan (MFJ) Motorcycle Sport Hall
of Fame in December, 2018.(Above) Rennie Scaysbrook (34) won in the Heavyweight Motorcycle class
and set a new overall motorcycle record in the 97th Pikes Peak Inter-
national Hill Climb, riding an Aprilia Tuono V4 1100. (Below) Start of an
AFT Short Track Twins race on a new dirt track at New Hampshire Mo-
tor Speedway, led by Sammy Halbert (69), Bronson Bauman (37), Henry
Wiles (17), Briar Bauman (14), Robert Pearson (27), Jeffrey Carver (23), Jar-
ed Mees (1) and the rest of the field. Photo by Scott Hunter/courtesy AFT.(Above) Winner Scott Greenwood
on the 96th Loudon Classic podi-
um, with his son, third-place Sam
Greenwood (right), and second-
place Cole Hall (left). (Below) Mit-
suo Ito (8), 1963 Isle of Man winner.RW
14—Roadracing World, August 2019