MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES
VOL. 51 ISSUE 8 FEBRUARY 25, 2014 P47
Briefly...
After the incident between he and
Tickle, Mike Alessi was in prime
position to win the 20-lap 450 main,
or at least finish out the night on the
podium. When Stewart went down,
he inherited a big lead and was rid-
ing quite well the first few laps be-
fore fading back to sixth at the finish.
"The first five laps were intense,"
said Alessi. "I felt like I was riding
pretty good, but once those guys
caught up to me I tensed up. They're
in another level, but I'm slowly trying
to work my way up there."
The GEICO Honda Team had an
up-and-down night. The upside was
Hahn's fourth-place finish in the 450
main, and Bogle and Blake Wharton's
3-4 performance in the 250 main,
but the downside was two DNFs,
one suffered by Eli Tomac and the
other by Matt Bisceglia. Tomac was
running near the back of the pack
early in the 450 main before pulling
out with a mechanical problem, and
Bisceglia withdrew after suffering a
couple of crashes in the 250 main.
The final blow knocked the wind out
of him and he was unable to contin-
ue. The rookie, however, was on the
move and running eighth on the fifth
lap when he went down.
After the race, Ryan Villopoto talk-
ed more about his struggles to find
a good setup on the bike. "We were
trying things, shuffling settings, but
ultimately we went back to some-
thing we showed up with," said Villo-
poto. "Today, I felt pretty good every-
where, I just struggled in the whoops
pretty bad, I couldn't figure out what
it was. We tried not to stray too far
from what we had."
Now that the series has moved east,
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHAN MOORE
A
s the Supercross season reaches the halfway mark, Ken
Roczen proved once again that he's without doubt a se-
rious title contender, as he joined the exclusive multi-win
club after claiming his second victory of the 2014 Monster Energy
AMA Supercross Series, this one coming in front of nearly 70,000
fans at the Georgia Dome. His first win of 2014 came at the se-
ries opener at Anaheim. Ryan Villopoto, James Stewart and now
Roczen each have two wins on the season, with Villopoto clinging
to a nine-point advantage over the former 250 World Champion,
Roczen. Stewart, who fell while leading and missed a golden op-
portunity to collect a handful of points on the lead group and a
possible third-straight win, is third in the championship, 17 points
behind Roczen and 26 behind Villopoto.
Ken Roczen is keeping
the pressure on points
leader Ryan Villopoto
after claiming his
second win of the series
in Atlanta.
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