Coyright 2004, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

By Lisa Theobald

Marco Martinez won the Unlimited Grand Prix race at Moroso Motorsports Park during the CCS Florida Region event Sunday, and took home a total of four first-place trophies along with three seconds, a third and a fifth.

The Sunday race schedule had to be adjusted due to an unusually high number of red-flag incidents and one extended oil-clean-up situation. Several of the afternoon races were shortened to five laps in an effort to complete the event before sunset.

After an unusually long, incident-filled day, the final race, Unlimited Grand Prix, finally got underway about two-and-a-half hours behind schedule. Ed Lis made it to turn one ahead of the pack and led the first lap on his GSX-R750 with Martinez and Jim Pihokken in hot pursuit. By the end of the lap one, the race had broken into a three-rider battle for the lead. Martinez made the winning pass halfway through lap two on his GSX-R1000, outpowering Lis down the back straight and taking over first place. And then he started to step away from the rest of the field. By the end of lap five, he was running all alone up front and took the checkered flag without further challenge. Pihokken, Lis, John-o Bowman and Dave McEnery rounded off the top five.

Martinez also won the Unlimited Supersport, Heavyweight Supersport and Middleweight Grand Prix races. He finished second in Middleweight Supersport, Middleweight Superbike and Heavyweight Superbike. Pihokken won the GTO race, and Lis won the Formula 40 and Heavyweight Superbike events.