WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
VOL. 52 ISSUE 10 MARCH 10, 2015 P73
Briefly...
ha's Josh Hill suffered a hard get-off
during practice and did not return.
He was transported to the hospital
with reportedly injured ribs and col-
larbone.
Ryan Dungey said that his Red Bull
KTM Team built a special "Daytona"
track to practice on at trainer Aldon
Baker's property. "We had a whole
different layout," said Dungey. "It kind
of worked out good because we had
a small Daytona section and we were
going to ride a lot of the Supercross
track, but it ended up being muddy
from the rain the previous weekend.
So Monday, we didn't ride the Super-
cross track, we just built more of a
Daytona section in the black dirt at
Baker's facility, Aldon's new training
facility. The team Red Bull KTM guys
came down; we didn't do a lot. All we
did was a little bit of shock change.
I raced my same forks I race with in
Supercross and softened the shock
up a little bit, and just tried to get
some stability in the bike and just
absorb those square edges. It was
just getting comfortable, putting in
our laps, doing our motos and then
showing up as ready as we can be.
Like I said before, it's the best I've felt
at Daytona with the bike setup."
During his run from 10
th
to the front,
Eli Tomac methodically picked off
rider after rider, getting help when a
crash slowed others in front of him.
"The way my start was, I honestly
thought I should've been dead last,"
Tomac said. "But I came out inside
the top 10. At that point, I was at the
back of a big pack of guys. A couple
of guys went down, and when those
crossed-flags were out, it kind of
bunched everyone up."
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