Villopoto goes Centre stage!
By TMX Archives on 17th Mar 10
THE Monster Energy AMA Supercross, and FIM World Championships headed outside the American border for round ten of the series at Toronto. Over 42,000 devoted Canadians piled into the Rogers Centre stadium, possibly hoping to witness Kawasaki's Chad Reed make his comeback.
Everything was going well for the Aussie; setting a fast lap time in practice, Reed looked to be certain to appear on the start line for the Main event. But as practice continued, Reed went down, injuring his right thumb just as his left wrist was about healed. The injury is likely to keep Reed out for the next round, possibly two.
With Reed unable to start, the attention switched back to the ongoing battle between Suzuki's Ryan Dungey and Kawasaki's Ryan Villopoto.
AMA & WORLD SUPERCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 10 – Rogers Centre, Toronto, CANADA
SUPERCROSS CLASS: 1 Ryan Villopoto (Kaw), 2 Ryan Dungey (Suz), 3 Trey Canard (Hon), 4 Ivan Tedesco (Yam), 5 Kevin Windham (Hon), 6 Josh Hill (Yam), 7 Nick Wey (Kaw), 8 Thomas Hahn (Suz), 9 Justin Brayton (Yam), 10 Matt Boni (Hon), 11 Kyle Chisholm (Yam), 12 Michael Byrne (AUS - Kaw), 13 Chris Blose (Hon), 14 Jason Thomas (Suz), 15 Weston Peick (Yam), 16 Teddy Parks (Kaw), 17 Justin Keeney (Kaw), 18 Casey Hinson (Hon), 19 Davi Millsaps (Hon), 20 Jarred Browne (Kaw). 21 Ryan Morais (Suz) 1+0=1, 22 Jake Oswald (Hon) 1+0=1, 23 Adam Martin (Kaw) 1+0=1.
SERIES STANDINGS after 10 (of 17) rounds: 1 Dungey 214 points, 2 Villopoto 197, 3 Hill 177, 4 Millsaps 152, 5 Windham 147, 6 Brayton 136, 7 Tedesco 135, 8 Wey 113, 9 Chisholm 92, 10 Hahn 89, 11 Byrne 89, 12 Blose 72, 13 Short 69, 14 Langston 67, 15 Canard 63, 16 Stewart 51, 17 Thomas 51, 18 Boni 34, 19 Iziord 32, 20 Browne 29,...
SUPERCROSS LITES (East): 1 Justin Barcia (Hon), 2 Austin Stroupe (Suz), 3 Christophe Pourcel (F - Kaw), 4 Dean WILSON (GB - Kaw), 5 Ryan Sipes (Yam), 6 Brett Metcalfe (AUS - Hon), 7 Kyle Cunningham (Hon), 8 Troy Adams (Suz), 9 Michael Willard (Hon), 10 Nico Izzi (Yam), 11 Vince Friese (Yam), 12 Adam CHATFIELD (GB - Kaw), 13 Taylor Futrell (KTM), 14 Levi Kilbarger (Hon), 15 Martin Davalos (Yam), 16 James Decotis (Hon), 17 Steven CLARK (GB - Suz), 18 Jake Moss (AUS - Suz), 19 Blake Baggett (Suz), 20 Matthew Lemoine (Suz).
SERIES STANDINGS after 4 (of 9) rounds: 1 Pourcel 95 points, 2 Stroupe 88, 3 WILSON 71, 4 Metcalfe 65, 5 Barcia 64, 6 Sipes 49, 7 Baggett 46, 8 Izzi 41, 9 Friese 39, 10 Cunningham 37, 11 Moss 30, 12 Davalos 29, 13 Adams 28, 14 Kilbarger 28, 15 Willard 27, 16 Regal 24, 17 CHATFIELD 23, 18 Futrell 19, 19 Decotis 17, 20 Lemoine 15,... 25 CLARK 4,...
NEXT ROUND: March 20 – Cowboy Stadium, Arlington, Texas, USA.
FOR FULL STORY SEE T+MX NEWS, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2010.
In front of a 42,000 strong crowd, Josh Hill powered his Yamaha to sixth spot in the Supercross class, keeping his third place in the series.