"I got the holeshot and proceeded to run off my fastest laps of the day in the first five laps of the main event. I wanted to go out hard early in the race because the track had been pretty soft all day. They had wheel-packed the thing before the main event, and I figured if I was going to make a break, then early was the best time to do it - on a smooth track. I knew as the race wore on, the track would get a lot rougher and it would get a lot harder for the guys to pick their way through the bumps and gain on me. Nicky Hayden, however, was riding really well and kept me honest up until the point at which he wrapped his rear brake pedal around his footpeg through the right-hander. When he had dropped out, I looked back, and second-place was quite a ways back, and it happened to be Toby Jorgensen. It was really neat to see Toby running in that position, because I knew the kid when he was in diapers, and I've watched him race for many years, and I've even raced against him on the little 100s. That kid running second brought back memories of my rookie year at Peoria in 1985. It was pretty cool to have him on the podium with me.

"When I noticed that Hayden had dropped out, in fact I came around and noticed that he was pushing his bike off to the side of the track to get it started, I had looked back coming off of turn four and noticed that Toby was exiting the right-hander. We maintained that gap for about six or seven laps.

"Fortunately for Scotty (Parker), he was able to come back to the track as we were lining up for the main event. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't down there on the race track with me. He had crashed his bike on the last lap of his four-lap scratch heat trying to beat Joe Kopp. He high-sided the thing pretty bad. The initial analysis was that we thought he was beat up and bruised a little bit, but I guess cooler heads prevailed and they took him on into the hospital and got him checked out. He found out he had stretched ligaments in his shoulder and two broken bones in his hand. According to him that day, he feels that he'll be out for two weeks and be ready to go for Springfield. I think a lot depends on whether he'll have to have an operation on his shoulder or not. I would expect, knowing Scotty, and knowing that the Hall of Fame Race is coming up and the fact that that Springfield is one of his favorite tracks, that, come Hell or high water he'll be there."

Hagerstown, Maryland awaits the Grand National teams for the second time this season.