From a press release issued by Troll Honda BQR:

Report on yesterday’s final round of the Spanish Bancaja Fórmula de Campeones Motociclismo Superseries held on Sunday, November 9, 2003 at the Circuito Ricardo Tormo de la Community of Valencia

Noyes Wins Final Race and Spanish Superstock Championship

It all went down to the final race, the final lap and the final corner, but in the end the winner of the last round and the title in the Bancaja Motociclismo Superseries Championship, Spain’s top Superstock series, was American Kenny Noyes (Troll Honda CBR954RR) over José Manual Hurtado (MIR Suzuki GSX-R 1000).

The two started the race with Noyes leading by four points, but with Hurtado on the pole and Noyes second. Whoever won between them would take the title.

“I got the holeshot and worked real hard to build up a little lead,” said Noyes. “After about eight laps I had .6 of a second and that felt comfortable, but then I made a couple of little mistakes and my board showed that Hurtado was .3 back. I didn’t want him too close on the last lap because that’s how he beat me back in the spring at the first race of the season. I led into the last corner and was a little too defensive thinking he would go inside and low, but he ran high and got better drive and just made a draft pass at the line.”

As the leaders started the final lap the gap was still .3, but on the approach to chicane before the final corner Noyes was balked by a back marker allowing Hurtado to close right up.

Hurtado made a desperate attempt to ride around the outside on the long decreasing radius left-hander that funnels down to a second gear exit onto the straight, but Noyes had him covered this time and held off the Suzuki rider to win the race. In addition to the 25 points for the win he also picked up the two bonus points for setting the fastest lap, taking him to a 117-108 final score in the points table.

Noyes won the 2000 Formula USA Pro Singles Dirt Track National Championship in 2000 riding a Lineaweaver Husaberg before traveling overseas to Spain, the country of his birth, and joining the BQR racing team based near Barcelona Spain.

“It was real tough the first season on the 600. Then last year BQR put me on the big bike and I started getting the hang of it. I had some good results at the end of last season and this year our goals were to finish top ten in the Spanish Formula Extreme and win the Superstock. We have achieved one of our objectives. The other one may be harder. I’ve got two Spanish Formula Extreme races left and we are sitting 15th in points, ten back of tenth,” he said.

Noyes, who turned 24 at mid-season, has been confirmed as BQR’s lead rider in the Spanish Formula Extreme Championship next year and will ride the new CBR1000RR Fireblade with support from Montesa Honda (the company name of Spanish Honda) Showa and Dunlop. Spain does not have a Superbike series and, therefore the nationally televised Formula Extreme is the country’s most prestigious championship.