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"Western
swing" of the series. ln the last
four races,
James
Stewart and Ricky
Carmichael
have traded Supercross-class
main-event wins, the latest
going
to the
Team Kawasaki rider Stewart, after a
long, one-on-one,
20-lap showdown with
Carmichael at
Qualcomm
Stadium. Each
rider now has three wins of the six-race-
old AMA series, but
Team lYakita
Suzu-
ki's Carmichael still enjoys
an I l-point
lead. thanks to Stewart's meltdown last
week
at Anaheim lll, where Stewart fell
three times and finished eighth. So far,
that's
been
rhe diflerence of the series.
Nearly 70,000
fans filled
the stadium
to
see the
last
of the
five
California
rounds,
and they certainly didn't come away dis-
appointed after witnessinS
one of
the
closest
races yet.
Carmichael
got
out
in
front early and Stewart stalked him the
whole way,
keeping the
pressure
tumed
up but never
really
seemed to be
in
a big
hurry to take the lead. lnstead, Stewart
hung back in second and
rode
a
patient
and calculated race, spending most of the
main event sizing up Carmichael and
deciding where and when he was
going
to
make his move, Stewart eventualb/
pulled
the triSSer on the ISth lap, which
gave
Carmichael little time to try to mount a
comeback, Finishing well back in third
was
Team Yamaha's Chad Reed.
ObviouslT Stewart rebounded well
after his Anaheim lll disaster.
"l
never lost my confidence," Stewart
said.
"l
know all the work we
put
in all
week and during the offseason, so I knew
I
just
needed to relax out there. Last
weekend. I kind of over-rode the track
and I had a few bobbles.''
Kawasaki race team manaSer Mike
Fisher admitted that Stewart was
pretty
disappointed after the Anaheim lll race.
"He
was
pretty
bummed," Fisher
said,
"but
he
quickly put
it out of his
mind and
put
it behind him.'' And
Carmichael too.
Carmichael was
gracious
in defeat.
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