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Race Report - Anaheim III

Saturday, 20 February 2010

Supercross Qualifying

Points leader Ryan Dungey jumped out for the first 450 holeshot of the night, with Matt Boni nipping at his heels. Kevin Windham, however, snuck up on Boni and stole the second-place spot. From there, Windham kept Dungey honest, showing him a wheel more than once over the course of the heat. Davi Millsaps moved himself into third, building a comfortable gap between he and the rest of the field. Dungey eventually created a bit of space on Windham, and in turn, Windham did the same with Millsaps. After 8 laps, Dungey, again, chatted with “Lurch” on the podium about his heat race win.

Josh Hill, aboard his San Manuel Yamaha, grabbed a big holeshot over JGRMX’s Justin Brayton. Meanwhile, MotoConcepts Yamaha’s Dan Reardon had his hands full with Ryan Villopoto. RV2 set his sights on Brayton, but the JGR rider kept the pace with Hill. Jason Lawrence looked great in his return to racing, and looked like he would reel in Reardon and Tedesco who were putting in solid laps, but a fall, which forced him to kick over his bike, kept him form qualifying and sent him to the LCQ. Hill took the win, with Brayton and Villopoto rounding out the top three.

Supercross Main Event

With the customary burst of flames the Supercross class shot off the line with Ryan Villopoto getting the jump on the rest of the class. Behind the green machine were Josh Hill, Davi Millsaps, Kevin Windham and Ryan Dungey…essentially every top qualifier from earlier in the evening. But as the laps began to click off, the top five were running in a freight train fashion, albeit one with some very long cars, as the contenders were evenly space about a half second apart from each other.

Millsaps finaly began to pressure Hill, but caught off guard, Windham made a quick move for third. And only a lap later, Dungey used his momentum to carry him past the Red Bull Honda rider as well.. Hill seemed unable to put a good charge on the leader, and the only other rider really moving through the pack, Dungey, was stuck back in fourth.

On the 12th lap, as things seemed to be settling down, Dungey tried for an inside move on Windham after the finishline, but spun out in the slick corner, leaving the door open for Millsaps to repass the Suzuki rider, dropping Dungey back to fifth.

But out front it was the RV show, as he continued to lay down blazing lap times, and seemed especially comfortable in the rough sandy corner section. In the closing laps, most riders had settled into their respective positions, although Dungey was able to pass Millsaps back for fourth place. At the finish it was Villopoto, Hill, Windham, and Dungey. The finishes will tie Hill and Dungey for the championship lead heading into the first East Coast round next weekend in Indianapolis.

RESULTS

1)    Ryan Villopoto
2)    Josh Hill
3)    Kevin Windham
4)    Ryan Dungey
5)    Davi Millsaps
6)    Justin Brayton
7)    Kyle Chisolm
8)    Michael Byrne
9)    Dan Reardon
10)    Nick Wey
11)    Ivan Tedesco
12)    Chris Blose
13)    Grant Langston
14)    Jarred Jet Browne
15)    Fabien Izoird
16)    Cyrille Coulon
17)    Justin Keeney
18)    Weston Peick
19)    Jason Thomas
20)    Matt Boni

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