Brothers Tommy (No. 9) and Nicky Hayden (No. 29) battle it out in a WERA Regional race at Indianapolis Raceway Park in April of 1992. These two little guys from the Bluegrass State were tough to beat on their Moto Liberty Honda RS125s, as many WERA Clubman and Formula III riders from the era will attest.
The brothers Hayden, Tommy (No. 9) and Nicky (No. 29), battle it out in a WERA race at Indianapolis Raceway Park in April of 1992. (Larry Lawrence photo)
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In 1992 I was noodling around on my Vintage Guzzi in practice at the WERA GNF. In the curvy bits (turns 3/4/5), I was passed by this tiny little blue bike, and it got me motivated, but it was difficult to stay with. It had incredible corner speed, and so I decided to go to school on it, stayed behind (the extra 865cc’s helped), and followed for a number of laps. Learned quite a bit on line selection and corner speed that day. Turns out it was Nicky on the #29 bike. Closest I’ll ever get to a future MotoGP World Champion on the track…
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Little Nicky dove under me in turn six going into the parking lot section at IRP and lost the front end crashing out just clearing my front end! It was pouring rain in an open practice session, I remember locating these kids in the pits cause i,d never seen little kids road race before, not to mention on little Grand Prix bikes. Met Earl and watched him duck tape n saftey wire his kids bike together and send them out for the finals which Hayden brothers dominated. I think the third boy was still in a baby stroller. Had no idea they were a huge future of the sport back then, its amazing what that family accomplished, By the way we were all experts on GSX-R 750,s n 1100,s,
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