From a press release issued by the Penguin Racing School:

Multi-time National MX and SX Champ Doug Henry spent the day last Wednesday at the Penguin Racing School at New Hampshire International Speedway, learning road race skills on his Yamaha Supermoto machine.

Doug rode with instructors Eric and Jeff Wood and went quickly from dragging his foot to dragging his knee. The instructors were impressed with the Champ’s fast progress.

Doug will be riding the AMA Supermoto event at Columbus this weekend and may contest the entire series next season. The word around Bettencourts Honda was that fellow New England MX star, John Dowd, is also looking into the series as well.

Jeff Wood holds the lap record at the NHIS road course for a Supermoto machine at 1:17.70. Jeff won the Supermoto support race held at NHIS during the Loudon Classic last June. A dirt section was added to the 1.5-mile road course between turns five and eight.

NHIS track owners Bob and Gary Bahre were impressed with the crowd’s reaction to the race and want to do more. NHIS is working on hosting a Supermoto National event during next year’s Loudon Classic.