Dungey bounces back after crash to win at Salt Lake City
Sunday 29 April: It was Ryan Dungey's third Monster Energy Supercross win. Also, Eli Tomac clinches theWestern Regional Supercross Lites Class Championship.
Red
Bull KTM’s Ryan Dungey captured the third
Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, win of the
season tonight at Rice-Eccles Stadium in front of 40,548 fans.
Toyota/Yamaha/JGRMX’s Davi Millsaps started perfectly, winning the Nuclear Cowboyz Holeshot
Award with Dungey on his back wheel to start the Supercross Class Main
Event. With the field sorting itself out through turn 1, Monster Energy
Kawasaki’s Jake Weimer moved into second place.
Dungey
settled into second place on Lap 8, passing Weimer, but on the same
lap, Weimer answered back, knocking Dungey to the ground as he made the
pass. Dungey regrouped and made a charge on Weimer before passing him
with just a few laps to go. After capitalizing on a mistake made by
Millsaps near the end of Lap 18, Dungey moved into the lead and rode to
the win. Millsaps finished second and Weimer finished third.
"It
was great racing out there tonight, and I really dug deep,” said
Dungey. "I didn’t see [the pass] coming and that was my fault. My front
wheel got a barrier in the corner and I went down. My focus was to run
him down, and I did. I had a tough part of the middle of the season, and
I knew I had the speed tonight. I just needed to be patient.”
Millsaps’
quest to hold down the number-two position in Supercross Class point
standings started in his Heat Race when he posted the fastest time of
6:19 on his way to victory in the eight-lap race. He now has a
seven-point lead over Team Honda Muscle Milk’s Justin Brayton.
Supercross Class Results: Salt Lake City
- Ryan Dungey, Belle Plaine, Minn., KTM
- Davi Millsaps, Murrieta, Calif., Yamaha
- Jake Weimer, Rupert, Idaho, Kawasaki
- Justin Brayton, Fort Dodge, Iowa, Honda
- Mike Alessi, Hilliard, Fla., Suzuki
- Broc Tickle, Holly, Mich., Kawasaki
- Andrew Short, Smithville, Texas, Honda
- Joshua Grant, Smithville, Texas, Kawasaki
- Robert Kiniry, Holland Patent, N.Y., Yamaha
- Tyler Bowers, Danville, Ken., Kawasaki
Supercross Class Season Standings
- Ryan Villopoto, Poulsbo, Wash., Kawasaki, 323
- Davi Millsaps, Murrieta, Calif., Yamaha, 244
- Justin Brayton, Fort Dodge, Iowa, Honda, 237
- Ryan Dungey, Belle Plaine, Minn., KTM, 232
- Jake Weimer, Rupert, Idaho, Kawasaki, 211
- Mike Alessi, Hilliard, Fla., Suzuki, 192
- James Stewart, Haines City, Fla., Yamaha, 178
- Brett Metcalfe, Lake Elsinore, Calif., Suzuki, 174
- Kevin Windham, Centreville, Miss., Honda, 166
- Broc Tickle, Holly, Mich., Kawasaki, 161
Western Regional Supercross Lites
En route
to winning his fourth Main Event of the year, GEICO Honda’s Eli Tomac
clinched the first Western Regional Supercross Lites Class Championship
of his career.
Rockstar
Energy Racing Suzuki’s Jason Anderson won the
Nuclear Cowboyz Holeshot Award with his teammate Martin Davalos to start the Western Regional Supercross Lites Class. On the
opening lap, Red Bull KTM’s Marvin Musquin moved
into second, while Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Dean Wilson secured third place.
Wilson
quickly passed Musquin while Tomac moved into third place. Tomac
stalked Wilson for several laps before making the pass for second on Lap
8. It didn’t take long for Tomac to cut into Anderson’s lead and make
the race-winning pass on lap 10. A dramatic turn of events happened on
Lap 12 when Wilson, who came into tonight’s race four points behind
Wilson, suffered a huge crash that forced him to withdraw from the race.
As a result, Tomac scored enough points to clinch the championship.
Anderson and Davalos earned career-best results, finishing second and
third, respectively.
"It
was huge to close out the night with a race win and a championship,”
said Tomac. "That was some good racing out there. Off the gate I got
bumped around and was able to slowly pick guys off and try to pace. I
did my best not to do anything stupid. That was the best way to do it.”
The
final race of the 2012 Monster Energy Supercross Championship takes
place next Saturday, May 5 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas.
Western Regional Supercross Lites Class Results: Salt Lake City
- Eli Tomac, Cortez, Colo., Honda
- Jason Anderson, Edgewood, N.M., Suzuki
- Martin Davalos, Cairo, Ga, Suzuki
- Wil Hahn, Decatur, Texas, Honda
- Marvin Musquin, Murrieta, Calif., KTM
- Matt Moss, Murrieta, Calif., KTM
- Billy Laninovich, Riverside, Calif., Honda
- Topher Ingalls, San Luis Obispo, Calif., Honda
- Vince Friese, Cape Girardeau, M.O., Honda
- Scott Champion, Sun City, Calif., Honda
Western Regional Supercross Lites Class Season Standings
- Eli Tomac, Cortez, Colo., Honda, 159
- Dean Wilson, Menifee, Calif., Kawasaki, 132
- Marvin Musquin, Murrieta, Calif., KTM, 127
- Cole Seely, Murrieta, Calif., Honda, 119
- Jason Anderson, Edgewood, N.M., Suzuki, 95
- Matt Moss, Murrieta, Calif., KTM, 92
- Billy Laninovich, Riverside, Calif., Honda, 84
- Ryan Sipes, Ekron, Kent., Yamaha, 83
- Nico Izzi, Menifee, Calif., Yamaha, 78
- Travis Baker, Temecula, Calif., Honda, 75
Copy and results courtesy of Denny Hartwig from Feld Motor Sports
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