VOL. 50 ISSUE 42 OCTOBER 22, 2013
Jordon Smith came within a spectacular crash of winning the All-Stars.
lap one in 14th, then washed the
front end out trying to pass BTOSports.com KTM's Andrew Short
and fell back even farther, sitting
18th on lap two of 10.
"Yeah, that sucked, too,"
Stewart said of his crash. "So,
after getting the holeshot, to go
down, knowing how muddy the
track was... But it was good for
us. I told the team if we won, we
won, but we were here to find out
where we were and to find some
speed and get that racing [feeling] back."
And then things got really interesting. As Stewart was trying
to work his way back toward the
front – eventually finishing a respectable eighth place – Villopoto pulled away from Dungey just
enough that Dungey couldn't see
Villopoto as they re-entered the
stadium from the outside section.
On the last lap, Villopoto took the
Joker Lane at his last opportunity, while Dungey went racing by,
causing the crowd to go nuts.
Dungey thought the crowd
went nuts because Villopoto had
trouble, since Dungey didn't see
Villopoto in front of him anymore.
Dungey took the checkered flag
first, but Villopoto took the win.
"He [Villopoto] was already in
[the Joker Lane] and the crowd
kind of screamed, so I thought he
went off the track or something,"
Dungey said. "So I was like, 'Oh,
man!' I didn't see him and then
he's right behind me... [After the
race] I asked Villopoto, 'What
happened?!' and he goes, 'Joker
Lane, bud!' Then it dawned on
me..."
Because of the five-spot penalty, Villopoto took the win over
Musquin, Weimer, Roczen, GEICO Honda's Eli Tomac, Dungey,
Barcia and Stewart. For the third
year in a row, Villopoto won the
opening main event, and going
P53
into the second main, he was the
only guy with a chance at the full
$1 million grand prize.
MAIN EVENT 2
With the racers starting on opposite sides in the second main,
Stewart snatched the holeshot
over the two Ryans. Villopoto
slotted himself into second, while
Dungey made a costly error on
lap two that put him back to fifth
place, behind Barcia in third and
Roczen in fourth.
Then, in an attempt to get away
from Villopoto, the fans got to see
the James Stewart they used to
know, as Stewart uncorked a big
move.
The rhythm section after the
long start area went like this: uphill single, single, tabletop, then
downill single, single, single before a big stand-alone double
jump into a turn. The fast line
all day was for the racers to triple up onto the tabletop, then
bounce off of that over the next
single, then double the last two
jumps out of the rhythm section.
Although it was the fastest way
to do it, it was really awkward,
because the racers were carrying too much speed and had to
slow way down to jump the final
double in the rhythm section, or
else they'd run the risk of slamming into the face of the standalone double jump that followed.
On lap three, Stewart just went
ahead and jumped out of the
turn all the way over the tabletop
(which, in rhythm-section speak,
is considered two jumps, since
