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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP VOL. 52 ISSUE 11 MARCH 17, 2015 P65 Not a lot has changed. After all we still have Mr. Consisten- cy with us, only he's redefined what consistent means. For Dungey it used to mean a rider who put it on the box most ev- ery weekend and on his really bad nights would finish fourth. The Diesel, remember? Sure and steady. But of late some- thing has clicked and Dungey's diesel is now supercharged. The Red Bull KTM rider is not only winning, but win- ning big. Such was the case in Indianapolis in front of a packed house of 60,491 fans in Lucas Oil Stadium. Dungey dominated the race from start to finish, with the number-5 shining atop the scoreboard for 20-straight laps. And he was gone, nearly seven seconds ahead of second place before backing it down on the last lap and winning 3.915 seconds over Honda's Cole Seely. Red Bull KTM stablemate Marvin Musquin did something similar in the 250 East final at Indy making it a very good night for the KTMers. Dungey's chief rival, Trey Canard, had what looked like a potentially disastrous night going into Indy. He suffered a hard crash in practice, another fall in his heat and had to ride a Semi. Then he had a terrible start in the main. But the like- able Honda factory rider even- tually came around and found a way to finish on the podium in third, overcoming the numer- ous challenges he faced. That result did Canard a lot of good. Had he finished much worse, Dungey might have had a full two-race points lead. As it is, Dungey extended his lead to 45 points, still pretty mas- sive, but not quite the psycho- logical barrier a full two-race (50 points) cushion would have been. On what was generally considered a very technical Indy Supercross track, Weston Peick equaled his best result of the year, finishing fourth on the JGRMX Yamaha and winning his first heat race to start the night off right. Monster En- ergy Kawasaki's Davi Millsaps rounded out the top five. It matched the season best for Millsaps, who also took fifth at Phoenix in round two. Andrew Short put his BTO Sports.com/KTM across the SupercrossLive.com Holeshot Award line first to nail down that award. He raced to an eventual sixth. Josh Grant took seventh on his Discount Tire Racing/TwoTwo Motorsports Kawasaki. That was Grant's fourth top-10 finish of the sea- son and his second best of the year. Broc Tickle, Chad Reed and Jake Weimer rounded out the top 10. Eli Tomac finished 11th and was the last rider on the lead lap. Briefly... AMA Supercross and Motocross di- rector Kevin Crowther explained the Baggett-Anderson incident from the official's perspective. "Baggett made a pretty aggressive pass, "Crowther said. "Anderson ended up going down, so the race direc- tor went over and talked to Blake. Then we had a red flag on the ses- sion and on the restart Anderson made a pretty aggressive move and ended up hitting Baggett and knock- ing him down. At that point the race director called both of them over and told them they need to calm down and figure things out. They were not permitted to finish the qualifying ses- sion." Vicki Golden came within 6/100th of a second of making history at Indy. Golden turned in her strongest performance of the season on her HRT Suzuki and came within a hair of qualifying for the evening program in the 250 East Supercross division. She qualified 42nd and one rider who qualified in front of her crashed and withdrew from competition. That meant Golden was the first alternate. It was easily the closest Golden has come this year in her quest to be- come the first female racer to make an evening program at an AMA/FIM Supercross event. "Indy went way better than any round so far," Golden said with a smile. "I finally felt like everything went smoothly. I just felt good and had a better attitude, be- cause it feels good when things go right. I got really sick just before Day- tona and that's one of the reasons I sat out that race." The time away from the track actually did her good. "I really felt rejuvenated," she said. "I came in and rode the track on press Dungey probably wonders where everyone is while pulling away from the field. continued on next page

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