From a press release issued by Troll Honda BQR:

Report on fourth round of the Spanish Bancaja Fórmula de Campeones Motociclismo Superseries held on Sunday, September, 21, 2003 at Albacete, Spain.

Kenny Noyes Wins Again in Spain, Now Just Two Points Back of Superstock Leader

“It’s the first time I ever won a race without leading a single lap,” said Californian Kenny Noyes (Honda CBR954RR) when informed two hours after finishing second by a bike’s length to Jeronimo Castillejo, also on a Honda Fire Blade, at round four of the Spanish Superseries (Superstock) Championship at Albacete, that the Race Direction Committee had applied a 30 second penalty to Castillejo for overtaking Noyes under yellow flags.

The win, the second in a row for the American in the Spanish Superstock series for machines up to 1000cc, moved him to within only two points of championship leader José Manual Hurtado (Suzuki GSX-R 1000) whose crash, when battling for fourth, brought out the yellow flags that altered the race result.

Only a week earlier Noyes had destroyed his best Honda in a 120 mph crash at Jerez in the fourth round of the Spanish Formula Extreme series. He uses the same machine in both championship with slight modifications. (Spanish Formula Extreme allows very little engine modification.) To make matters worse all but one member of the twelve member BQR team had flown to Brazil to take care of the Honda 250’s ridden in the World 250 Championship by Álex Debon and Eric Bataille.

“This is the worst time of the year for us. The team is going through a period where we have nine races in eight weeks. Four GP’s, three Spanish Formula Extreme and this two Superseries races including this one on the same weekend as Rio. The crash in Jerez left me with no telemetry and a spare bike that hadn’t been on the track since it caught fire in the 24 Hours of Barcelona. Between the wreck and the endurance bike my mechanic, Alfonso, managed to make me a Honda and I qualified third, but we were having a lot of trouble with chattering because of the stock fork. Our modified fork was trashed at Jerez. Then on lap one of the race I hit a bump and the engine just quit for an instant and then came back on. It kept doing that three or four times a lap right in the middle of the fast bumpy turns. I got into the lead passing Isaac Martin (Yamaha R1) on the start of lap eight but Castillejo was right with me and passed me on the same lap. It looked like he was going to get away but I found a way to catch back up on the last laps. I just came up a few feet short. We were happy anyway, considering everything, and I was talking to our engine guy on the cell phone in Brazil when they came around and said we won,” said Noyes. “We had some luck today and we needed it!”

The BQR “A team” arrives in Barcelona on Monday, September 22, and will immediately start engine building of the two RS250s for the three week fly-a-way to Japan, Australia and Malaysia, and also building the Formula Extreme version of Noyes’ RCB954RR for next week’s Spanish National F-Extreme race in Albacete.

Currently Noyes is 13th in Formula Extreme with three races to go and second in Superseries with two races left.