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Srqdlu.rr GA SUPCRCROSS fJ Whor go"" oround comes orpvnd. Jeremy ,ri(Groth (2) Eiyet 5t wqrt - o "lgye top" in lhe firrt heot rc(c. But Stewo.t saw blue qnd fiought it woi Chod Reed, Stewart over a step-up/step-off elevated turn section, causing the Kawasaki rider to lose some valuable time. "There were a few times I kind of screwed up," Stewart said- "One lap, I didnt jump over that little whoop thing, I kind of rolled over it, and one lap, Kyle Lewis almost took me out up there and I had to roll down it." Carmichael knew that something had happened to Stewart and tried to capitalize. "l think he 8ot held up behind Kyle Lewis - ltried to make a squirt there, but it wasn't enough and he reeled me back in." With only a few laps left, the only ques- tion left was - where was Stewart going to make his move? "l thought I was going to try and get him right after (hat start - down there in that corner," Stewart said. "l felt like I had a little better line, and I was going to try and square him up, but I knew I was good after that triple, too. So I iust tried to pick a place where it would be clean, I didn't want to make contact." On the lSth lap, in a 180-degree banked turn, Stewart came to the inside and executed a perfect block pass on Carmichael for the lead. "He put a ggod clean pass on me," Carmichael said. ''l could always hear him in that tum - that's where he was gaining on me." Unfonunately for Stewan, right after he made the pass on Carmichael, he had a couple of lappers to deal with through a triple-iump section iust before the finish, but they moved over and he managed to tta)/ ahead of Carmichael and oflicially took the checkered flag iust 0.859 sec- onds ahead of Carmichael. "l got by clean, but I was a little nerv- ous that last lap," Stewart said, "We had a couple of lappers ahead of us, and I didn't want to do the l'like Brown thing again and slide out like what happened at Anaheim lll." With the lappers, Carmichael contem- plated tn/ing to get Stewart back but thought otherwise. "l don't know if he tripled that deal, after that 45-degree turn lnear where Stewart passed him], but I came in there pretty hot," Carmichael said. "l would've had to go in there and stop and ,ust rake us both out. I have no regrets. I did the best I could do." { d A d I !E E f ? o 6 t s s E d I t I o 3 t o I o o tt a I t C I nrtDrD* , *;$gt Il - ! ey rhe time Chod Reed got into rhird, Cormichoel qnd Stewort were olreody long gone. I I - , $l \Y qri t, + 20 FEBRUARY 22 ,2w6 . CYCLE NEws Februory r r, 2OO5 2006 Amp'd Mobllc World Supercross GPl AmpU Mobilc AMA Supcrcnoss SGFiGs :?\, a L,. , I / It ,l til F-{ , I Comichod .ongrslulqter - )tewon oal hr9 wrn. X H.' I t d; f i-, r t'i *,, a.lJ-' / A n :) I { 5 I ,bl * , : ,, :i lvan Tedesco Team Makitz Suzuki's lvan Tedesco had an event- ful night. He passed Chad Reed for th€ lead in the fim heat race, only to crash and miss out on a trander. He came back ard won his semi, but got banged around in the first turn of the main and had to fight his way up through rhe pack and ended up sixth. "ln my heat race, I got op front and my adrenaline wa5 going and lwas iust pin- ning it," he said. ''But I made a mistake and put mysel{on my head. ln the main, I got a tood sfart but got tangled up with another rider I was lucky I didn't go down. When I finalt 8ot stan- ed atain, I was in something like l6th place. So sixth place isn't bad, considerinS where I was cominS from." Team Kawasaki's Hichael Byme spent most of his race bat- tlihg with Mike l-aRocco and lyan Tedesco. He held down fifth for most of the race before finally giving way to both L-aRocco and Tedesco. Afterr,rvard, he wasn't too happy about tiving up those two positions. 'lt was pretty averate." Byrne said of his race. "l tried to put myself in a good posi- tion, but I 8ot cautht up with a few lappers aM made a cou- ple of mistakes, and Mike and h.an were a liftle fasler than me tonight and that's fnrstratint. lt'r not much, maybe half a second or so, but half a second makes a lot of difference. l'm still in the points battle, thet for sure. We're all so close, that every point and every position

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