Copyright 2002, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

By David Swarts

Road racers Matt Wait, Larry Pegram and Cory West rode in the Formula USA Pro Singles event at the State Fair Speedway in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma June 22.

Racing in the “MotoTT” event as part of the Formula USA Grand National Championship series, which includes both road race and dirt track events, Wait took home the best finish of the three riders with seventh in the 25-lap main after winning his heat race on his Synergy Honda CRF450F.

Wait’s 17-year-old teammate West, finished 15th in the main, one position better than Suzuki-mounted Pegram.

Rich King won the race on a Harley-Davidson while Glen Schnabel. Jr. took second on a Honda. With a second in Oklahoma and a win at the last dirt round of the GNC series in New Hampshire, Schnabel now leads the GNC point standings without riding in the road race round at Loudon. Schnabel’s 38 points lead Wait’s 33. Pegram is third with 30 points ahead of dirt trackers Terry Poovey and Joe Kopp, who are tied with 26 points. West is sixth with 23 points.

Another road racer/dirt tracker who rode in the latest F-USA dirt track is Danny Eslick, age 16; Eslick finished sixth in the Oklahoma MotoTT on a Yamaha. More recently, Eslick rode his Yamaha to third in the Pro Sport 505cc class of the 2002 AMA Dirt Track Championships, held July 1 in Springfield, Illinois. Eslick is the 2001 CMRA/CCS South Central Region GP Singles Champion.

Nicky Cummings, 15, of Mount Morris, Michigan had an even more successful day at the AMA Dirt Track Grand Championships. Riding a Rotax and a Honda, Cummings won the 505cc Modified race and placed second in both the 250cc Modified Premier and the 600cc Modified Premier events.

Cummings is the son of dirt track team owner Tom Cummings, who once fielded a very young Nicky Hayden on his machines. Nicky Cummings has begun road racing a Honda RS125 and in April raced for the lead before crashing out of the USGPRU 125cc Grand Prix race at Road America.