JANUARY 23, 2007
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Report by James Lissimore |
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Round 3 of the Amp’d Mobile AMA Supercross Series returned to the home of Supercross: Anaheim’s Angel Stadium. |
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Privateers are doing much better these days. |
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Ryan Villopoto was untouchable all day in the Lites class. With Pourcel on his way back to France, Ryan is in the driver’s seat for the Lites West Championship. |
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Jason Lawrence managed to avoid taking Dusty Klatt out again and, this time, found himself on the podium in second-place. |
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One of the early favourites for the West Coast championship, Yamaha’s Josh Hill was finally able to put it together and grab third in the Lites main for his first ever Supercross podium. |
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Still healing from the massive burns inflicted in his heat race crash at Anaheim 1, Star Racing Yamaha’s Dusty Klatt qualified easily for the main with a 7th in his heat race. In the main, Dusty was only able to pull off a 15th, but it moves him into the top 20 in points now so next weekend in San Francisco he can ride the Seeded rider practice; a major plus with the new timed qualifying system. |
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Brady Sheren rode his Wonder Warthog Racing Yamaha for the final time at A2. The team isn't satisfied with his results (which is weird, because the original intentions of the WWR deal was to develop riders and results came second) and they dropped him. No worries, Sheren will move to a Team Solitaire CRF250. |
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I like supercross. |
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Steve Matthes’ dark-horse pick, Moto XXX’s Josh Summey finally had the ride he is capable of. Summey finished 9th in the 450 main. |
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The first winner of the “RC’s vacant spot on the podium” sweepstakes was MDK’s Nick Wey(27). Nick turned a holeshot and 20 solid laps into his first podium of the season. |
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This guy should be on the podium, especially with Carmichael absent. Windham still isn't riding to his potential, and he finished sixth at A2, one spot ahead of Cernic's Kawasaki's Paul Carpenter. |
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| With RC running a part-time schedule, the only rider with a chance to take on James Stewart is Chad Reed. The injured Reed was looking stronger at Anaheim, but he was still almost a full second a lap slower than Stewart. Hopefully as his shoulder injury heals, Reed can close the gap on his rival. |
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With his knee almost healed, BTO Sports/ Butler Brother’s Doug DeHaan looked much stronger in practice but poor starts, including getting stuck in the gate in his LCQ, kept Dougie D out of the main event in Anaheim. He will be looking for redemption next weekend in San Francisco. |
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This could be a long season--for everyone but this guy. |
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