SUPERCROSS
MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES, AN FIM WORLD
ROUND 12 / APRIL 2, 2016
LEVI'S STADIUM / SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA
P82
450SX
II ALL DUNGEY
The 450SX class got off to an interesting
start with all four of the previous 2016 SX
winners—Jason Anderson, Eli Tomac, Roc-
zen and Dungey—all getting off to promising
starts to the day and evening. Monster Energy
Kawasaki's Eli Tomac reeled off the quickest
lap time in qualifying and both Roczen and
Dungey won their heat races. Anderson fin-
ished second to Roczen in his heat race (and
nearly even beat him), so the Santa Clara main
event had serious potential of being a doozy,
but it just didn't turn out that way, despite three
of them—Dungey, Anderson and Roczen—all
occupying the top three spots by the second
lap. Tomac was the odd man out with a bad
start; he was in 16th.
GEICO Honda's Justin Bogle actually snared
the holeshot, though Anderson might've had it
had Justin Brayton not used him for a bumper
stop after swooping in on him from the far out-
side. Anderson didn't go down but it did cause
him to back off on the throttle just for an instant
and that cost him a couple of positions. Bray-
ton, however, hit the ground.
Dungey got past Bogle in the third turn
(though Bogle didn't simply give it to him), then
Roczen and Anderson also got by the Honda
rider in quick succession. Now it was Dungey,
Roczen and Anderson out front, with Chad
Reed also getting by Bogle for fourth. This
was it, the race everyone was expecting, but
the fireworks fizzled out. Dungey was just too
strong and pulled away.
Roczen did give Dungey a race for a while
and made one real pass attempt on the eighth
lap but could not muster another attack for the
rest of the race.
Dungey was killing everyone in the turns
on the hard-packed, though somewhat tacky
track, and no one had an answer, not even
Roczen. Dungey entered the turns hard and
Ryan Dungey felt
Ken Roczen's
presence the whole
race but didn't
panic. He stepped it
up when he needed
to and took his sixth
win of the year.
