News 1 Feb 2013

Monster Energy Supercross heading back to Anaheim

Ryan Villopoto is on a two-race win streak entering A3. Image: Simon Cudby.

Ryan Villopoto is on a two-race win streak entering A3. Image: Simon Cudby.

After four races and three different 450SX Class winners, Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, returns to Angel Stadium this Saturday night for the 60th time.

Current points leader Davi Millsaps, who won the season opener in Anaheim earlier this year aboard his Rockstar Energy Racing machine, has a seven-point lead on Team Muscle Honda Muscle Milk’s Trey Canard and an eight-point lead on Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Ryan Villopoto, the two-time defending champion.

Villopoto became the first repeat winner in this parity-packed season and is quickly making up for his 16th-place finish at the season opener.

Villopoto has five career wins at Angel Stadium and is hoping to win his third-consecutive race of the season this Saturday.

Millsaps finished second in Oakland last weekend and controls the points race for the first time in his seven-year career.

In the Western Regional 250SX Class, Red Bull KTM’s Ken Roczen moved into the points lead after winning his first race of the season last weekend in Oakland.

GEICO Honda’s Eli Tomac, who came into Oakland with a nine-point lead in the championship and a three-race winning streak, crashed in the whoops section and was unable to finish the race. He now sits third overall, 15 points out of the lead.

The first supercross race held in Anaheim was 4 December, 1976, when Marty Smith won on a Honda.

This weekend’s race will be the 60th time the gate will drop for a race in Anaheim in 38 years.

James Stewart, Ricky Carmichael and Jeremy McGrath are tied on the all-time 450SX Class win list in Anaheim at eight. Ivan Tedesco holds the 250SX Class all-time win record in Anaheim with five wins.

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