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American Honda officials announced Thursday night that Nicky Hayden will be racing a Honda RC211V in the 2003 MotoGP World Championship and that Ben Bostrom will be racing a Honda RC51 in the 2003 AMA Superbike Championship.

That’s the word from Tony Bell of Spectrum Motorsports, a Honda dealership in Lake Forest, California, reporting from American Honda’s dealer show in Chicago.