SUPERCROSS
MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES, AN FIM WORLD
ROUND 11 / MARCH 19, 2016
DETROIT, MICHIGAN / FORD FIELD
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II BAKER'S FACTORY
Aldon Baker started out in the
world of motocross training when
he was hired by Ricky Carmichael
to whip him into shape near the
end of the 2000 season. He
trained Carmichael and nobody
else until Carmichael retired,
then switched to working with
Carmichael's longtime rival James
Stewart. After Stewart, Baker
began training Ryan Villopoto
and his 450cc teammate Jake
Weimer, as well as 250cc racers
Blake Baggett and Tyla Rattray.
He trained Ken Roczen along with
Villopoto in the 2014 season, and
then began working with 450cc
racers Ryan Dungey and Jason
Anderson, along with 250cc racer
Marvin Musquin, in 2015.
This is a long-winded way to
illustrate two things: 1) Baker has
worked with some seriously great
racers in his time as a trainer. 2)
That 2016 was the first time that
Baker ever trained three racers in
the same class, with Dungey, An-
derson and now Musquin racing
450cc supercross together. They
train together during the week,
all week, at the Baker's Factory
in Florida, and the Detroit Su-
percross marked the first time in
history that a podium was swept
by racers trained by Aldon Baker.
"Marvin was riding great, and
so was Jason," Dungey said.
"That's all the Baker's Factory
boys, so that's really cool. We
work hard together."
For the record, racers trained
by Aldon Baker have won 22 of
the 30 450cc championships
run since 2001 (his first year with
Carmichael). And of the eight
championships his racer didn't
win, four of them had his racer
drop out with an injury early in
the series, or before the series
even started, two of them were
because Carmichael rode a
partial schedule in 2007, and the
other two were because Stewart
was racing Supercross only in
2009 and 2010.
In the 2016 450cc supercross
championship, Baker's racers
are first, third, and fifth with six
rounds left to run.
Notorious
trainer Aldon
Baker had
three of his
riders cover the
Detroit podium.