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Discount Tire Racing’s Chad Reed rebounded for his first podium of the 2015 Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, season with third at Oakland last weekend.

Reed started off the season with back-to-back 10th place finishes followed by a disqualification at Anaheim 2 via a controversial clash with Trey Canard in the main event.

The gritty Aussie used that added motivation to good effect at Oakland, storming to the lead early on before ultimately claiming third behind Canard and red plate holder Ryan Dungey – his first podium since winning A3 last year.

“It’s great to get up here after last week,” said Reed. “I’m bummed because I really do feel like I had a win in me tonight, but I made a couple mistakes and jumped off the track. We’ve put what happened last week behind us and will move forward with a new motivation.”

Reed later said that he and Canard had discussed the A2 incident on the Oakland podium and have moved on from there after battling for the fourth round victory a week later.

“This weekend had the potential to go both ways,” Reed told PulpMX.com. “You come in here mad as hell and you carry that into the weekend and you can let last weekend bother you, but pretty much halfway through the week I was okay with it. I feel like at some point you’ve got to own it.

“What I did last weekend, I would do it again, honestly. For the people that hate on me and the people that think that that was gnarly, dude they got to find a different sport. I would do that in a second.

“No apology and to be honest with you I talked on the podium with Trey for the first time. Trey’s like, ‘hey man, I’m sorry for what I did’. And I said, ‘hey, we both did things that wasn’t right’. And it felt good honestly because he said that was a bad move, that was a bad call.

“Even the black flag thing, he totally was in disagreement with that. Trey and I are fine. There’s nothing between me and Trey. This is a me and Gallagher thing, so we’ll see how that pans out.”

Reed has now climbed to 10th in the championship standings on 42 points, 40 behind Dungey following four of 17 rounds.