MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES
VOL. 51 ISSUE 5 FEBRUARY 4, 2014 P59
was soon able to put a move on
Stewart that left the Suzuki rider
on the ground. Stewart got up in
10
th
and managed to get a few of
those spots back in the remain-
ing five laps.
"We missed it tonight in the
main," Stewart said of his bike
setup. "I knew it right away, on the
first lap, that something wasn't
right. I was sliding all over the
place. I was losing the front end,
couldn't go through the whoops.
I just kept fighting and fighting.
Normally I'm pretty good about
figuring it out, but I just never got
it. I was trying different lines, but
those guys got away. By lap nine
or 10, even though they got away,
they were still like right there, so
I was, 'all right, do what you can
do the last part of the race,' but
Ryan [Dungey] ended up knock-
ing me down.
"I went triple in this one sec-
tion, coming down, and he was
coming in and he T-boned me
into the bales," Stewart said.
"That sucked, it bent up the bike
a little bit. I talked to Ryan about
it after the race and I know he's
not that kind of guy; we're still
good friends, he's a great rid-
er, a champion, he just made a
mistake, like we all do. Overall,
though, it [the main event] was
a bad deal –bad – but we have
to find out what happened, be-
cause it was a different motorcy-
cle in that main event than it was
in the heat [which he had earlier
won]."
A lap after putting Stewart
down, Dungey also went down
in the whoops. The fall stripped
everything off his left handlebar,
including the bike's kill switch,
which caused an electrical short
and the motor to cut out. That
and a broken clutch assembly
ultimately prevented him and his
Red Bull KTM from continuing.
"We had a good run going
in the main until a swap in the
whoops," Dungey said. "It wasn't
the bike or anything, I just caught
the edge of one wrong and lost
my balance and that was it. The
bike was too mangled to keep
going. Even if the clutch stayed
on it would've been pretty hard
[to keep going]. It's unfortunate,
but we're going to man up and do
everything we can to get back in
the hunt."
>>250 WEST MAIN
They say it's never over til it's
over. In the 250 West Super-
cross Championship, nothing
could be closer to the truth. In
just about every race we've seen
so far, the outcome hasn't been
decided until the last few laps - if
not the last lap. We saw this again
at Anaheim III, where Lucas Oil/
Troy Lee Designs/Red Bull Hon-
da's Cole Seely, who has been
the victim of some of these late-
race dramatics, was leading in
the waning laps and looked to
be en-route to his second win of
the season when he washed out
going into a turn, handing the vic-
tory to a very happy Dean Wilson,
who, like his Monster Energy/
Pro Circuit/Kawasaki Team, was
due for a break.
