INTERVIEW
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2011 AMA SUPERCROSS AND 450 MOTOCROSS CHAMPION RYAN VILLOPOTO
Once again, Villopoto helped Team
USA win the Motocross of Nations.
kind of one-lined, and me and
Dungey were going back and
forth. We weren't passing each
other, he was in the lead, but I
would catch up to him and then
he would pull away, and we just
kept going back and forth like
that. I was able to get around him
in that last corner around the outside and that made the momentum shift over to me so much after
that and I just went with it. I think
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it changed the tone of things and we could do it. Dungey and I
it gave me the momentum.
needed to go 1-2 and we did it. It
was unreal.
You ended up sealing the
deal at Pala and then right
And then you capped off
away you flew off to France the season by winning the
for the Motocross of Nations, Monster Energy Cup in Vegas.
which you helped to win for You really couldn't have had a
the seventh straight time, and much better year.
22nd overall. You guys kind of
Yeah, it feels good to win it all.
had your backs against the But during the off-season everywall going into that last moto, one's going to forget who won all
but you pulled it off.
those races and it will be time to
Yes, it was tough, but we knew start looking to 2012. I'm not say12/9/11 2:18 PM
