UTAH SAINTS
By TMX Archives on 4th May 12
Salt lake city was the venue for the penultimate round of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM WorldChampionship.
More than 40,000 fans squeezed into the Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah, to watch KTM pilot, Ryan Dungey, return from injury and ride to his fourth victory of the series. Meanwhile in the Western Lites class, Honda's Eli Tomac took victory after an action-packed 15 lap race to wrap up the 2012 championship.
With the Mains title already wrapped up by the injured Ryan Villopoto, the class was thrown wide open. Yamaha's Davi Millsaps had the speed out of the gate to grab the holeshot with Dungey right on his back wheel briefly before Kawasaki's Jake Weimer came through to run second.
By lap eight Dungey started to find form and made a pass to take
second. However Weimer was not in the mood to be pushed around, and quickly retaliated to re-pass Dungey. In the process Dungey went down. Quickly back on the bike, the KTM rider resumed his chase to the front, and with only a couple of laps to go was able to reel Weimer in to take control of second place.
It looked as though leader Millsaps was going to cruise to victory until a mistake in the final laps allowed the charging Dungey enough time to make a last ditch pass to take the flag.
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.”
FOR FULL REPORT AND PICTURES SEE TMX MAY 4
AMA & WORLD SUPERCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 16 – Rice-Eccles Field,
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
SUPERCROSS CLASS: 1 Ryan Dungey (KTM), 2 Davi Millsaps (Yam), 3 Jake Weimer (Kaw), 4 Justin Brayton (Hon), 5 Mike Alessi (Suz), 6 Broc Tickle (Kaw), 7 Andrew Short (Hon), 8 Josh Grant (Kaw), 9 Robert Kiniry (Suz), 10 Tyler Bowers (Kaw), 11 Matt Goerke (Suz), 12 Weston Peick (Yam), 13 Nick Wey (Kaw), 14 Gavin Faith (Hon), 15 Jason Thomas (Suz), 16 Chris Blose (Kaw), 17 Kyle Chisholm (Kaw), 18 Jimmy Albertson (Suz), 19 Kyle Regal (Hon), 20 Brett Metcalfe (AUS - Suz).
SERIES STANDINGS after 16 (of 17) rounds: 1 Villopoto 323 points (CHAMPION), 2 Millsaps 244, 3 Brayton 237, 4 Dungey 232, 5 Weimer 211, 6 Mike Alessi 192, 7 Stewart 178, 8 Metcalfe 174, 9 Windham 166, 10 Tickle 161, 11 Chisholm 143, 12 Reed 128, 13 Short 114, 14 Wey 105, 15 Peick 93, 16 Hansen 89, 17 Kiniry 84, 18 Grant 74, 19 Goerke 74, 20 Musquin 59,...
SUPERCROSS LITES (West): 1 Eli Tomac (Hon), 2 Jason Anderson (Suz), 3 Martin Davalos (Suz), 4 Wil Hahn (Hon), 5 Marvin Musquin (F - KTM), 6 Matt Moss (AUS - KTM), 7 Billy Laninovich (Hon), 8 Topher Ingalls (Hon), 9 Vince Friese (Hon), 10 Scott Champion (Hon), 11 Killy Rusk (Hon), 12 Landen Powell (Hon), 13 Preston Tilford (Hon), 14 Beau Hudson (Kaw), 15 Chris Plouffe (Hon), 16 Ryan Sipes (Yam), 17 Miles Tedder (Kaw), 18 Travis Bright (Hon), 19 Dean WILSON (GB - Kaw), 20 Collin Jurin (Suz).
SERIES STANDINGS after 8 (of 9) rounds: 1 Eli Tomac 159 points (CHAMPION), 2 WILSON 132, 3 Musquin 127, 4 Seely 119, 5 Anderson 95, 6 Moss 92, 7 Laninovich 84, 8 Sipes 83, 9 Izzi 78, 10 Travis Baker 75, 11 Friese 73, 12 Davalos 71, 13 Osborne 67, 14 Rattray 60, 15 ANSTIE 53, 16 Leib 44, 17 Rusk 37, 18 Swanepoel 34, 19 Champion 33, 20 Hahn 31,... 38 CHATFIELD 2,...
FINAL ROUND: May 5 – Sam Boyd Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
