Factory Yamaha Superbike rider Tommy Hayden won the rain-postponed Illinois Motorcycle Dealers Association TT race Monday, May 28 in Springfield, Illinois. The win marks the eldest Hayden brother’s first AMA Grand National win. Hayden rode his personal, fuel-injected Yamaha YZ426F, which had been modified with flattrack suspension, wheels, and tires to win the inagural Springfield TT.

What made the win particularly interesting was that Fox-sponsored Tommy Hayden beat his Corbin-backed brothers Nicky and Roger Lee in the race. “Yeah, I guess that’s the first time that three brothers have ever raced in the same flattrack race,” said Nicky Hayden Tuesday, May 29.

According to Nicky, he and Tommy broke away from the field and had a race very similar to the races that they regularly have in the backyard of their parent’s Kentucky home. When asked how disappointed he was to coming so close to winning a TT and taking another step closer to completing the legendary “Grand Slam” of motorcycle racing, Nicky Hayden said, “Losing to Tommy wouldn’t have been a big deal if it had been a short track or a half-mile. But I was still able to be happy for him, and our whole family was there to see it. So it was good.” Roger Lee Hayden finished the race in seventh.

Nicky Hayden said that the new TT course was much shorter and man-made where normally TT courses follow natural terrain. The course was constructed inside the Illinois State Fairgrounds Rodeo Arena.

RESULTS:
1. Tommy Hayden, Yamaha
2. Nicky Hayden, Rotax
3. Chris Carr, Rotax
4. Rich King, H-D
5. Joe Kopp, Rotax
6. Glen JR Schnabel, Rotax
7. Roger Lee Hayden, Rotax
8. Will Davis, ATK
9. Brett Landes, CCM
10. Mike Hacker, H-D