Pre-race: Albacete, May 8. Round One of Spanish 1000cc Formula Extreme Championship American Kenny Noyes Returns from Injury to Start Spanish FX Series with Folch Yamaha After riding three years for the BQR Honda team in the premier Formula Extreme class of the Spanish National Road Racing Championship, American Kenny Noyes, 25, has signed to ride for Folch Yamaha, based in Reus, near Tarragona on the southern Catalan coast. The Folch team, owned by Josep Folch, has participated in the Spanish Nationals for 25 consecutive years and has won a total of 21 National Titles. Noyes crashed a month ago while testing tires with his new team at Valencia and was struck by his own machine, breaking five ribs and bruising a lung. On Friday, April 29th, he did 20 laps on his Yamaha R1 at Albacete and is will ride his dirt tracker and SuperTT this week as he works his way back up to speed for this weekend’s opener in Albacete. “I´ve still got a lot of pain on the left-handers. We could use another week, but the season starts now and I intend to try and pick up some points, as many as I can. After Albacete we have a month before round two at Valencia,” said Noyes, who is a dual American and Spanish national and was born in Barcelona, and raised near Madrid until moving with his family to rural Southern California at age 14. He became regular competitor at the Lodi Cycle Bowl and went on to win several races in Gene Romero’s West Coast Flat Track Series before teaming up with Dale Lineaweaver to win the 2000 Formula USA Pro Singles National Championship riding a Husaburg. In 2001 he began roadracing, returning to Spain and riding for BQR Honda. After a learning year in Supersport, he switched to the 1000cc Formula Extreme class and began scoring regularly in Spain´s top class. In 2003 he won the Fórmula de Campeones National Superseries (equivalent to AMA Superstock) riding a Honda CBR954RR, but last year, in spite of a strong preseason, his CBR1000RR suffered mechanical problems in four of the seven Nationals and he finished only 12th overall, still riding for BQR Honda. It was a one-off ride on a Suzuki GSX-R1000 in the 24 Hours of Catalunya that got Folch`s attention. Noyes was the fastest of the six riders on the two Catalá Suzuki teams, which included Javier Forés, now riding for the Corona Extra Suzuki team in World Supersport. A long stop to change the clutch dropped Noyes and his team mates to third and the race was won for the sixth time in the last ten years by Folch Yamaha. Noyes will again contest the nationally televised, seven-round Spanish Formula Extreme Championship and will also ride the 24 Hours of Catalunya and the Spanish Round of the FIM World Endurance Championship at Albacete. Noyes’ goal is to move to move to a top Superbike championship in 2006.