WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
VOL. 52 ISSUE 18 MAY 5, 2015 P81
Briefly...
Malcolm Stewart said after all was
said and done that he is grateful for
the GEICO Honda Team picking him
up just before the start of the series.
"Coming in and not knowing what I
had—I definitely can't thank Jeff Ma-
jkrzak [Factory Connection] for this.
He gave me an opportunity and I feel
like I'm returning a favor for him. We
[the team] had some ups and downs
but the team never gave up on me,
and I'm just trying to repay the favor."
Stewart's agreement with the team
was just through the Supercross
series. "As of right now I don't have
anything going, but I'm pretty sure I'll
be talking to some teams, but I can't
say anything yet."
The Las Vegas race was a milestone
for Ryan Dungey, as it was his 100
th
career Supercross start. "I actu-
ally didn't know that til yesterday,"
Dungey said. "That's pretty amazing,
a hundred races! When you think of
a hundred main events, that's 2000
main event laps, and then some with
the heat races. I don't know, that's a
lot of races; statistics are statistics,
we'll just keep racing."
Cooper Webb said that he expects
to be good for the upcoming outdoor
Nationals after injuring his ankle
during practice. "It's probably just a
sprain, but we'll see how it goes," he
said. Despite the injury, he partici-
pated in the evening's opening cer-
emonies with the aid of a chair and a
couple of crutches.
Jeremy Martin should be good for
the Nationals, too. He sat out the Las
Vegas Supercross after crashing his
mountain bike Thursday afternoon.
Martin suffered a nasty scrape to his
hand. Earlier in the day, he and his
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R E A M D A Y
>>MARVIN
MUSQUIN
WAILS ON
THE WEST,
WHILE RYAN
DUNGEY
MAKES IT
ANOTHER
KTM 1-1
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT PALMER
Marvin Musquin said the
Las Vegas Supercross was
a "dream day." Winning the
East/West Shootout in your
last 250-class Supercross
race will do that.
T
here weren't
many questions
left to be an-
swered going into the
final round of the 2015
Monster Energy AMA
Supercross Series.
With Ryan Dungey hav-
ing already clinched the
450 title three rounds
earlier, and this year's
Vegas round not count-
ing towards either one
of the East or West 250
Championships (both
having wrapped things
up at their respective
previous final rounds),
there was only one
thing left to decide: the
top rider in the tradi-
tional year-end Dave
Coombs Sr. 250 East/
West Shootout.
Each year, the top
20 riders from each
of the East and West
division, plus a handful
of invited riders, are pit-
ted against each other
in what has simply
become known as the
East/West Shootout.
There are no points,
no million-dollar prize
money up for grabs or
an AMA championship
to be concerned with,
just good ol' fashion
bragging rights, which,
for most true racers, is
probably more impor-
tant than anything else.
This year's East/
West Shootout, how-
ever, lost some of its
