Throwback Thursday: Miguel Duhamel Leads Pack in Phoenix
Larry Lawrence | October 13, 2016
Photo by Henny Ray Abrams
Miguel Duhamel, racing his No. 1 Smokin’ Joe’s HondaCBR600 F3, heads a pack of riders in the AMA 600 Supersport race at Phoenix International Raceway in February of 1997. Duhamel was the AMA road racing paddock’s most dominant rider in the 1990s and early 2000s. The charismatic Canadian, who was as fast as he was popular with fans, lit up the record books throughout an era that saw some of the fiercest competition ever in the AMA road racing ranks.
At the height of his career, Duhamel was the winningest AMA Superbike racer in history with 32 class wins. He captured the Superbike crown in 1995, won the Daytona 200 five times, took five AMA Supersport titles and two AMA Formula Xtreme titles on his way to amassing 86 career AMA wins. His 40-plus AMA Supersport victories are a record-more than three times the number of the next person on the list. Over the course of his long career, he rode for five different factories in AMA and international competition.
Duhamel is being inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in ceremonies today in Orlando, Florida.
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