FEBRUARY 18, 2006
St. Louis, Missouri is the home of Round seven of the Amp'd Mobile
AMA Supercross Series and the opening round of the East Lites series.
Photo: Danny Brault
By Derek Schuster
With the Amp’d Mobile AMA Supercross Series heading east to St. Louis
this weekend, it will be a new beginning of sorts for several Canadians
racers. Dusty Klatt, Mitchell Cooke, and Brady Sheren will all make
their AMA Lites debut at the Edward Jones Dome.
Knowing that this event would be a big one for Canadians, I decided
that watching the race on TV just wouldn’t be enough for me and I made
plans with Danny Brault of RXC to watch the race unfold live.
Dusty Klatt blitzes the whoops on Davi Millsaps' St. Louis SX replica track.
Photo: Danny Brault
Sheren, who had plans on racing the Western Lites series, was forced to
take some time off due to a bout with mono. Klatt and Cooke, who have
both been honing their supercross skills in Georgia for the past
several months, feel they are well prepared and Klatt says, “We’re
ready to go!” They will be accompanied this weekend by Jean- Sebastien
Roy, who will be giving his teammates support and advice throughout
their first AMA supercross race.
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Brady Sheren play riding at home in BC. Photo: James Lissimore |
Richmond Racing Team Green Kawasaki riders’ Kyle Chisholm and Donnie
McGourty earned a ride with the team following their success in the
Canadian MX2 East Series and will be battling with Cooke, Klatt and
Sheren in the Lites series. This will also be Chisholm’s first AMA
supercross. McGourty, who has been flying under the radar since his
departure from last year’s MX2 East series, will be contesting his
second season in the East series. After not qualifying at last year’s
round in St. Louis, he went on to score an eighth place finish the next
weekend at Daytona.
Moving on to Canada’s Supercross riders, Doug DeHaan and Ryan Lockhart are both in St. Louis. DeHaan qualified for the muddy Supercross main event at San Francisco and finished 15th, but he’s capable of bettering that finish this weekend in the state of Missouri on a dry track.
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Butler Brothers Honda's Doug DeHaan.
Photo: Simon Cudby |
After thinking that our 11-hour road trip from Ontario was quite a hike, we spoke with Ryan who just finished a 30 hour drive by himself in Rick Sheren’s Fun Mover. I can’t think of any other rider who has spent more time than this guy in a vehicle to make it to the races each weekend. Lockhart says even though he has yet to make a main event, he is satisfied with his riding and just needs to get the breaks to make into the show.
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Davi Millsaps has to be the favourite for the win in the Lites class.
Photo: Danny Brault |
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Who will it be this weekend? RC or Stewart? Photo: Allison Kennedy |
The 2006 Dealer Expo kicked off today in Indianapolis at the RCA dome
and RXC’s Jason T. Griffiths, Brett Dailey, Jay Moore, Dan O’Shea, and
Rob McCullough all made the trip to Indy to help out at the Racer X
booth (which is booth #1340). The crew at Racer X Canada is also
preparing for the Canada vs. USA hockey Tournament that will be taking
place Saturday and Sunday night. We’re expecting big wins from the
Canadian squad, which Danny and I will join for Sunday’s game. And
speaking of hockey, the Men and Women’s Olympic teams have been on a
roll. Giver Team Canada!
Be sure to report back to racerxcanada.com throughout the weekend to
view updates from our Canadian supercross stars. As always, the St.
Louis round can be listened to live on SupercrossLIVE! at
www.supercross.cc.com and you can watch the Supercross class action
Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on CBS.
