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Cycle News 2016 Issue 11 March 22

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SUPERCROSS MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES, AN FIM WORLD ROUND 11 / MARCH 19, 2016 DETROIT, MICHIGAN / FORD FIELD P64 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.

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