Middleweight Supersport 2nd
Heavyweight Superbike 2nd
Middleweight Grand Prix 1st

Team InkjetMall.com’s Shane Narbonne won his first-ever Loudon Middleweight Grand Prix Dash for Cash at Loudon, NH on Saturday June 2nd, despite being injured earlier while crashing out of the lead in the first race of the day.

The weekend started with great excitement in Race 1 GTO as Shane Narbonne took the hole shot with his Dunlop shod Suzuki GSXR 750, breaking away from the pack with Jeff Wood pulling right behind. After two laps of back and forth between Narbonne and Wood, Shane took the lead only to lowside on the still somewhat "green" racetrack in Turn Ten, giving Jeff Wood the lead and ultimately the win. Narbonne said, “I got the holeshot and I just tried to keep my head straight because Jeff Wood was behind me. The track was a little greasy and I was going probably a little too hard and I was down on the ground before I could do anything to correct it.”

With an injured arm Shane went on to place second in both Middleweight Supersport and Unlimited Supersport later in the afternoon.

The day ended with Shane Narbonne taking his first win ever in the $1,500 Middleweight Grand Prix Dash for Cash. Under extremely hot and humid conditions, Shane took the holeshot on his Dunlop equipped Suzuki GSXR 600 and led every lap ahead of Scott Greenwood and his Team Argo Cycles Kawasaki ZX 600. Shane opened an early lead building a half second advantage per lap until he and Greenwood came into traffic on Lap 8 of the 10 lap contest. The 17-year-old Narbonne showed great maturity as he slipped easily through slower traffic to maintain his advantage over Greenwood, eventually finishing 3.5 seconds ahead for the win. Shane Narbonne said, “I tried to think the pain wasn't there and tried to win it. It was hard but I did it.”

Shane’s father and chief mechanic, Al Narbonne has been able to maintain the advantage on Shane’s stock Suzukis this year at Loudon. The entire LRRS racing community has been restricted to new track rules that maintain a fuel policy that limits all racers to the C-12 race gas from VP Racing Fuels. Al Narbonne said, “Our Suzuki GSXR 600s and 750 are running great. Our tuner Eric Paquette at DASPERFORMANCE.COM has done a great job mapping the bikes for the new fuels requirements. The VP Fuels are working great at both the AMA and ASHRA levels, as they are at the CCS levels.”

X-rays of Shane’s arm on Sunday showed a possible broken forearm bone, forcing Shane to sit out the day of racing. He'll be healed up and ready to go for the Loudon Classic on Father's Day weekend. Shane has plans to do double duty at both Loudon’s roadraces and in the 15th Annual New England Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Dealers Association Ben Campanale Laconia 1/2 Mile.