REPORT | WILD NIGHT
AURORA, Ill. (April 19, 2010) – One of the most stunning evenings in Monster Energy AMA Supercross, a FIM World Championship, history created a noteworthy outcome last Saturday night from the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis. On the way to winning his fifth race of the 2010 season, Rockstar/Makita Suzuki’s Ryan Dungey viably asserted the 2010 AMA Supecross class title and will authoritatively guarantee the pined for number one plate this end of the week from Seattle’s Qwest Field.
In a night brimming with firecrackers from St. Louis, it was a standoff between the two most predominant riders of the season; Dungey and Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Ryan Villopoto. Through 13 rounds, neither one of the riders had combat no holds barred for the win in spite of catching the best spot in 12 of the past races. In any case, on Saturday night that changed and it set the phase for a sensational yet awful headliner. As the two riders went bar-to-bar, a hard pass endeavor by Villopoto left both he and Dungey on the ground. After remounting, Villopoto moved into the lead with Honda Red Bull Racing’s Andrew Short and Dungey on his back bumper. Be that as it may, only two laps later, Villopoto miscounted an intense mood area and slammed viciously directly before his title equal. The crash left the most dominating rider this season with a broken leg, finishing his 2010 Monster Energy Supercross season.
Dungey’s triumph moved him into a 77 point lead throughout the following nearest contender in third, San Manuel Yamaha’s Josh Hill. With just 75 focuses accessible over the last three races, Dungey’s lead is undefeatable and when the Minnesota local takes to the track on Saturday night, he will join amazing Jeremy McGrath as the main two riders in history to catch the chief class title as a new kid on the block.
“It got extremely feverish out there today around evening time,” said Dungey. “I had an extraordinary begin so that was a tremendous help. We worked extremely hard this week to turn out over here in St. Louis arranged. It’s terrible that Ryan (Villopoto) slammed. I trust he is alright.”
After Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Christophe Pourcel guaranteed the 2010 AMA Supercross Lites Eastern Regional Championship for the second year in succession one week earlier, the eighth and last race of the East Coast season was up for snatches. A harsh night left the recently delegated champion with a DNF while the most current and most youthful stars of the game struggled it out for the win. GEICO Powersports Honda’s Justin Barcia held off the difficulties of kindred new kid on the block Dean Wilson to race to his second win of the season and give him impressive energy heading into the AMA Supercross Lites East/West Coast Shootout in Las Vegas on May 8.
“I pulled it together this evening,” said Barcia. “I discovered that the holeshot influences the race to go a great deal less demanding. Everybody on the group completed an awesome activity with my bicycle, and I am pumped to get this win.”
With their Eastern Regional partners’ season wrapped up, the riders of the AMA Supercross Lites Western Regional Championship are ready to rock and roll to come back to the track out of the blue since the third and last race in Anaheim on Valentine’s Day end of the week. While the eight-race cutback leaves the riders on edge to come back to the track, they’ve kept up their frame all through the middle of the season break, including title pioneer Jake Weimer, who holds a 14-point advantage on his Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki with two rounds remaining.
In the last race at Anaheim, it was Weimer’s best title risk in GEICO Powersports Honda’s Trey Canard who caught the win and increased significant focuses in his mission for a moment AMA Supercross Lites title. To keep his race molding in top frame, Canard exploited an open seat at Honda Red Bull Racing to contend in the chief AMA Supercross class where he posted five back to back platform wraps up. When he and Weimer proceed with their title battle on Saturday night in Seattle, it will be anybody’s race.
Last season at Qwest Field, it was another memorable night for the game of supercross as Villopoto caught his first-profession AMA Supercross class triumph before 50,016 of his family and companions at the place where he grew up race.
Mike Alessi snatched the holeshot for the headliner, however Villopoto struggled his way into the lead against his youth equal and never thought back.
“It’s marvelous,” bragged Villopoto, who had missed three races with an infection. “I can’t thank my group enough and everyone that place exertion into it. It hasn’t been the year we needed however they never surrendered. I could see James and Chad out of the edge of my eye now and again. I simply centered around Mike (Alessi) and he committed that error. The track was super precarious today and there were some smooth spots so you truly needed to ride shrewd.”
In the season-long fight for the title, it was another title changing night as James Stewart continued the AMA Supercross class lead in the standings with a sprinter up exertion while Chad Reed battled after an unpleasant begin to bring home a season-most exceedingly awful seventh place wrap up.
From 1978-1999, AMA Supercross class races were held at the now outdated Seattle King Dome. Washington local Larry Ward won his first AMA Supercross race in Seattle in 1990, and in 1999, Ward won the last AMA Supercross race of his profession in Seattle. Rick Johnson holds the unsurpassed AMA Supercross class win record in Seattle with seven. Jeff Matiasevich holds the record-breaking AMA Supercross Lites class record in Seattle with seven.
Press Day is Thursday, April 22 from twelve to 2 p.m. at Qwest Field inside the Press Box.
Tickets are accessible ahead of time at the Qwest Field Box Office, all Ticketmaster Outlets, or charge by telephone at 800-745-3000 or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Club Level seats are $45 Adult/Child; Gold Circle seats are $45 Adult/Child; Mid-Level Seats are $25 Adult/Child; Treadhead Seats are $10 Adult/Child. All seats are $5 more upon the arrival of the race. Practice and qualifying start at 12:30 and hustling starts at 7:00 p.m. All tickets are liable to $2.50 office expense and accommodation and taking care of charges. Fans can likewise get into the Pits for FREE from 12:30 – 5:30 p.m. when they reuse a MONSTER Energy Can at the stadium Pit Entrance (legitimate just with occasion ticket).
The AMA Supercross class will air on SPEED Sunday, April 25 at 6:00 p.m. EST. The Eastern territorial AMA Supercross Lites class will air on SPEED Sunday, April 25 at 5:00 p.m. EST.
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