ROUND 10/AUGUST 10, 2013
UNADILLA VALLEY SPORTS CENTER/NEW BERLIN, NEW YORK
MOTOCROSS
P44
LUCAS OIL AMA PRO MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
There was no
stopping Eli Tomac
at Unadilla. He was
phenomenal in the
ruts.
time in practice on the redesigned
(and deeply rutted) course, Villopoto
ripped off both holeshots, and led
every lap of both motos to complete
the sweep. You can't do much better
than that.
Why the big turnaround from Millville to Unadilla? Villopoto credited a
new suspension setup, tested by the
team in California and sent to him in
Florida during the week off, as the
determining factor.
"Millville was a struggle for us, we
were a bit off on the settings we had
there," said Villopoto. "During the
weekend off, though, we went back
and did some homework and came
in here with some new suspension
settings. At Millville, we knew what
we had and we knew what we needed to fix, and the team ended up fixing it. They did it, actually, in California and sent it to me to try, and I was
pumped with how it worked today."
The big key for RV2 came down
to his two vaulting starts. Coming
into this race, Villopoto had just one
holeshot on the year, and to come
away with two in one race was huge
and it provided him with just the right
leverage to get away from the pack
early on the deeply rutted track. Villopoto thought his new suspension
settings played a part in his starts as
well.
"Going back to what we did on
the bike, I think that helped with the
starts too," said Villopoto. "We did a
At Unadilla, rookie
Jeremy Martin
proved that his
success the race
before at Millville
had nothing to with
having the homefield advantage.
