Lee Pounders (132) leads in the AMA/CCS Middleweight Supersport race at Daytona sometime in the early 1990s. Michael Barnes (2) moved through the field to win the race. (Larry Lawrence photo)

Lee Pounders (132) leads other riders in the Middleweight Supersport race during the AMA/CCS event at Daytona during Bike Week in the early 1990s.

Pounders, of Orlando, Fla., didn’t even start road racing until he was 32, but he was quick to make up for lost time. He’d crashed a motorcycle and gotten hurt as a teenager and just stayed away from bikes until some buddies took him to see a race at Road Atlanta and he got excited about the sport.

Pounders broke a record in 1990 when he won four national AMA/CCS novices titles in Oct. of 1990. He moved on and had some respectable results as an expert, but being in your mid-30s as a rookie expert didn’t give Pounders much room to work his way up the ranks. He raced just a few AMA Pro races in the mid-1990s and turned in some respectable results. His best result was 14th in AMA 600 Supersport in the Miami street race in 1991.