INTERVIEW
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AMA SUPERCROSS/NATIONAL MOTOCROSS CHAMPION RYAN VILLOPOTO
should've won, too, except for
yet another fall. For the first time
in recent history, Villopoto was
the hound instead of the hare.
"I was just kind of trying to figure out what the problem was,"
Villopoto says. "I'm not saying it
was all me, or it wasn't me, or it
was all the bike, or anything like
that, but I knew that at least some
of those crashes weren't all me.
So, I was just trying to figure out
what the problem was, and it just
came down to being way off on
our settings for the conditions we
were racing."
It's not all that uncommon for
teams to get their Supercross
settings dialed in perfectly for the
test tracks, then show up at the
races only to find out that what
worked in Corona doesn't work
in Anaheim.
"We changed some settings,
or a lot of settings, and we found
that balance and made it work
better," Villopoto says. "And then,
obviously, I started feeling better,
the bike was better, and so it just
all started playing off each other.
It just all came together before it
was too late."
And it can definitely get to be
