MY OWN RACE:
41 TREY CANARD 1ST SX
Despite getting run off the track in the first turn, Canard had
already moved into fourth place after the first lap, putting
himself in prime position to take the win. “I think I was behind
Metty [Brett Metcalfe] and [Davi] Millsaps, I believe, and I just
kind of settled in at the beginning, and then just tried to pick
those guys off,” said Canard of his race. “There was a good
gap on Windham, he was a good ways ahead of me, and I
tried to just chip on that and then he went down.
“From that point on, I was a little bit of a stress case. I tried
to ride clean laps. I saw Dungey coming and made a big
mistake, and then it got really hard. I just tried to hold on at
that point, and then Dungey came up to me. He got me - I
made a mistake in the rhythms and then made the pass right
back. I put in a really solid lap after that and just kind of rode
it out after that point. I was pretty tired. Man, riding that 20
laps and having that pressure really makes it difficult. I’m just
glad to pull it out.”
Canard was stoked to get his first win. “When I saw the white
flag, I was just fist-pumping inside, I knew at that point that I
could win the race - that last lap was just so stressful, especially, I made a mistake just before the triple the last lap and
Dungey really caught me then and about got me in the last
turn. I wanted to get a win, that was a little bit of a give-me,
I lucked into a couple of good positions, I know they’re not
all going to be easy but that experience will really help me in
the future. Riding in the front is a huge thing that needed to
happen for me, especially with the starts I’ve been getting.”
1 RYAN DUNGEY 2ND SX
Except for a few laps when he was chasing Davi Millsaps,
Ryan Dungey spent most of the race behind Canard. “I
knew I had to get into second and catch Trey,” Dungey said.
“I blame it on myself, but I didn’t get past guys [Millsaps]
quicker than I should have. Once I got into second [behind
Canard], I didn’t worry about behind me; I just tried to focus
on what was ahead and my lines.
“I was trying to make an attempt to pass Trey, I was right
there and right on him. [I] came real close to getting him and
[I] passed him at one point, but he had the inside advantage.
I tried to pass him the last few times on the last lap, especially the last corner, and came really close, but I had to check
off, because I was going to go into the finish line pole.”
RYAN VILLOPOTO 3RD SX
After getting off to a 12th-place start, Ryan
Villopoto had his eye on the leader, Windham. “I was watching the race,” he said,
“and I was bummed for Kevin when he
went down; that would’ve been cool if Kevin
would’ve won. I could see where he was,
and I knew he was winning. I also knew that
James was behind me, and that’s all I was
really worried about; because with Dungey’s deal last week with the chain... but Trey
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[Canard] is still there and I have to still be on it. The way the
race started, getting third is definitely good.” Villopoto has
retaken the points lead.
29 ANDREW SHORT 5TH SX
Red Bull KTM’s Andrew Short grabbed his best finish of the
year with a fifth in the Houston main. It was also K TM’s best-ever Supercross finish and the Austrian brand had three
bikes in the top 10. Short, the Colorado-native who now lives
near Houston, also finished second in his heat race. “All day
went good,” said Short. “Practice was good and then I got
a good start in my heat and that was key. Second was the
best I’ve done all year in a heat. That kind of led me into
the main where I had a horrible jump, but that pileup kind of
worked in my favor and I ended up fifth. It was awesome for
me and awesome for KTM. Three KTM’s in the top 10 [Mike
Alessi and Ken Roczen]. I think we’re adapting to the bike
and gelling.”
22 CHAD REED 6TH SX
After crashing in the first turn, Chad
Reed had no choice but to save as
many points as he could. “I just got
up and tried to be smart and tried to
come through and fight for positions,
and try to fight my way to the front,”
Reed said. “I was right on James and
he wasn’t really going anywhere fast; I knew that anything he
did different, he was just going to run into the slower traffic,
and I was just going to be right on him and was just hoping
to go to the front and try not to get into our own little battle in
the back. I wanted to try to use each other to push forward,
like a freight train, but he went down.
“I actually didn’t see what happened. I went over the [jump
where Stewart and Jason Thomas had tangled] and the
next second he’s gone, he was about two or three seconds
ahead of me and then he was gone. I’m like, ‘dude, what did
he do to go like that?’
“Then I saw Villopoto, and he was a little bit in front, two or
three guys in front of me, I was just trying to keep moving
forward, try not to waste time on anyone. You had to be aggressive. If they didn’t make a mistake, you pretty much had
to ride right over the top of them, because the track didn’t
allow for passing. So it’s not that much fun. There is aggressive racing and there is racing where you actually have to
literally ride right over the top of them and push them out of
the way, and nobody enjoys racing like that.”
9 IVAN TEDESCO 9TH SX
“Today wasn’t good all around,” said Dodge Motorsports/
Hart & Huntington Kawasaki’s Ivan Tedesco. “I was slow in
practice, but I rode pretty good in my heat. In the main, I got
stuck in that pileup. It was like follow the leader out there. It
was the worst track I’ve ever raced in my whole career. I’m
sure plenty of people feel the same way. I think they need
to do a better job of making the tracks raceable where you
can pass people. That’s what I get for getting a bad start and
getting stuck out there.”
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