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VOL. 52 ISSUE 35 SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 P119 was a stand-alone AMA Motocross Series). It's unlikely that Dungey, or anyone for that matter, will ever catch Ricky Carmichael's seven AMA 450 Motocross titles, but if Dungey wins one more he will be alone in second on the all-time AMA 450 Motocross Series Championships list. Next in importance are wins. It's obvious that Dungey is a fan of the history of the sport. When asked why he pushed so hard to win in Indiana last week, even though he'd had the champion- ship wrapped up, he replied that he wanted to give the fans his best, but also that his number of wins is important to him. And on that count Dungey was already way up there. Last season he passed Bob Hannah (who has 27 wins) for second on the all-time 450 wins. He came into 2015 with 31-career 450 MX wins and he pushed that number to 38 this year. That makes Dungey the all-time winningest active rider in the series and Ricky Carmichael is the only rider ahead of Dungey. RC's astounding 76-career 450 MX wins, like his seven championships, will likely never be beaten. Dungey's seven wins put his 2015 season as his third-best, at least in terms of wins. He had 10 wins in 2010 and again in 2012. Dungey also went to second on the all-time 450 class career podium finishes, overtaking Kevin Windham this year. There was just one first-time winner in the 450 class this year with Justin Barcia. The 250 class had two—Joey Savatgy and Aaron Plessinger. KTM won seven 450 Nationals in 2015, while Honda and Yamaha won two each and Suzuki one. Interestingly Yamaha moved up to tie Suzuki for third on the all-time 450 wins by a manufactur- er. Each now has 76. Honda leads that category over Kawasaki (134 to 103). Kawasaki added zero to its number of 450 wins this year for the second straight year. Times are tough at Big Green post- Villopoto. In the 250 class, it was Yamaha winning eight overalls with KTM three and Kawasaki with one. Jeremy Martin led the way in the 250 class with five overall wins. He now has a total of 10 wins in the AMA 250 MX class, which makes him the winningest active rider in 250 MX and ties him on the all-time list with Mike Kiedrowski and Ron Lechien. Musquin earned three overalls and he's tied with Mike Brown, Micky Dymond, Bob Hannah and Marty Smith. Six riders led laps in the 450 class this sum- mer, predictably with Dungey leading the way with 153 laps led to Roczen's 81. In spite of miss- ing most of the season, Tomac was third on the lap leader list with 76, and then Barcia (75) and Nicoletti and Pourcel with three laps led each. In the 250 class, a dozen riders led laps with Musquin (117 laps) leading the way over Jeremy Martin (102 laps) and Webb (73 laps). Savatgy (21 laps), Plessinger (15 laps), Alex Martin and Jessy Nelson (14 laps), Christian Craig (10 laps), Adam Cianciarulo (nine laps), RJ Hampshire (seven laps), Justin Bogle and Zach Osborne (one lap) all spent time leading races. Barcia was the holeshot king in the 450 class with 11. Impressive considering second-place Dungey only had four. A total of nine riders earned holeshots in the 450 class this year. In the 250 class the rider to turn-one first was little more evenly spread with a dozen riders earning the honors. Jeremy Martin and Musquin led the way with four each. Aaron Plessinger was Motocross Rookie of the Year. And remember the ultra-talented 450 rookie class of 2015 with Dean Wilson, Blake Baggett, Cole Seely and Jason Anderson? Well Seely and Wilson were injured much of the sum- mer and finished ranked 16th and 23 rd , respec- tively. Baggett and Anderson became immediate contenders with Baggett finishing fourth and Anderson sixth. Both riders scored podiums this season. CN Subscribe to nearly 50 years of Cycle News Archive issues: www.CycleNews.com/Archives