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sUPERCROSs
Round
a
April 29, 2006
AmCd
Mobile AMA
5X Litcs Wcst€Pn Regional
Supercross
Series
He
got going
again in lfth and could
never really
get
a charge
going
and
would
end
up eighth and
second in rhe champi-
onship.
"l
got
up and tried
to ride
the best I
could,"
said Short.
Langston said that
he never
really
knew where Short
was
for much of the
race, but he had an
idea.
"l don't
rhink the team wanted
me to
know too early
where
Andrew was,''
Langston
said.
"But
Isaw him
go
down,
because
he was right next to
me
going into
that tum, so
I kind of figured
that he may
have lost a litth
bir of
ground.
Then, on the
white-flag
[ap],
when
I
came
past the
mechaniG' area, they
put
on
the board that
Short
was in ninth,
and that was a nice reliel
Fortr-rnately, I had a decent enough
lead
that
I
pretty much rolled around
the track. I
nwer even really
had one close moment of
goinS
down: I feh
like
I w-as
in control
the
wMe time,
realt rode
pretty comfortable."
As could be
expected, Langston
\Mas
drrilled to record his
fourth maior I 25/ Lites-
class championship
of his career and
become
one of
iust
three
riders
(ioining
James
Stewan and
Emetto Fonseca)
to
win
titles
in both the
East and West Lites classes.
"Tonight
really wa5 a dream
come
true, and to
win in the
mud was even
more of
an accomplishment
for me,"
Langston
said.
''l
iust
had a
feeling that
it
would fall in
place this weekend."
After having
won a 125 World title, an
AMA 125 outdoor title, the
125 East SX
thle and
now the Lites
west SX title,
Langston
feels that his run in the Lites
class
is now complete,
and
that
he will eventu-
ally
move
up to the 450 class
for good.
"Wlat
is really cool about
this
[title]
is...
I
feel
like it
just
completed everything
that I would love to
have accomplished
in
the Lites,
and now
I'm lookinS forward to
movinS
up and racing the 450.''
Short was
gracious in deleat.
"l'd
be
lying if I said that I wasn't disap-
pointed,"
Shon sard.
"But
I did everything
that I could
possibly
do, so
I can at least
go
to bed
knowing that. I think I
rode good
but
got
some bad
break. Br.rr Grant
is a
great
rider, and
it's nice to know that I
didn't
lose the title to someone
who was-
n't deserving of
it."
Geftingon lhe
podium
for the first time
was Rockstar Suzuki's
)ason
Lawrence,
rn
third. Lawrence,
who hails from New
Jersey
and is no stranger to the mud,
came
from way back to challenge
Villopoto for
second
place
right
at the end. Had there
been
one more lap, Lawrence
just
might
have
gotten the Kawasaki
rider.
"l'm
stoked
to be on the
podium,"
Lawrence said.
"l'm glad
to be here.
lt
took
a while, but
l'm so
pumped,
all the
doubters
and stuff, l'm
iust
stoked
that
I'm here
-
it's
bod.''
Lawrence described
his race:
"lgot
one
of my
stars, which was about
lzth or
I3th. A few
guys
were
behind me. I could-
n't
get
through the
first rhythm section
very
good
and wasn't doing any
of the
iumps.
After that,
there was a crash
and I
was stuck
in the corner
I didnt really feel
like I
was
Soing
to
get
up here
[on
the
podi-
um], but I was
iust
going to ride all the
way
to the end.
l4y mechanic, Chad
- like about
the fifth
lap
-
it said fourth on the board,
riSht after
lNathan]
Ramsey
fell, and
lBrett]
Metcalfe was
right in front of
me, so I
just
charged,
hoping
I would
get
on the
podium.
Towards the end of the race,
I
saw
Ryan
[Villopoto]
in front of
me. I looked on the
board
and saw that
he was in second and
charged
trying to
get
him. lt came down
to
the wire, but I
iust
ran out of time."
Other
than inadvertently dropping
an
"F"
bomb on the
podium,
the night
went
quite
well
for the
l9-year-old.
Breft
Metcalfe, on the Boost
Mobile/
Yamaha of Troy
Y225Of, had a strong
race,
ending up
fourth after starting
off in loth,
while Alessi
rounded out the top
five
overall.
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