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Red Bull KTM’s Ryan Dungey will take each step toward the 2015 Monster Energy AMA Supercross series one round at a time, despite extending his lead to a 40-point championship advantage with victory at Daytona on Saturday.

After taking a career-first Daytona win, Dungey is on target for his first title since his rookie season in 2010, but maintains that each round holds its own importance with seven rounds remaining.

“That is good, being able to build on the championship,” Dungey told Racer X Online. “My main focus has been more just race by race. Long term that is the goal, the championship, but I think the only thing I can do is come into each race weekend, race the track, do what I know how to do and let the rest play out.

“If it’s a win, great. If it’s not, then try to be consistent and no major mistakes. I definitely want to leave each and every round with my best effort and leave everything on the track.”

Dungey said that back-to-back wins, which he achieved at Daytona last weekend, was a minor target of his at this point of the mid-season.

“Definitely these wins are important, especially at this stage of the game, but also being able to win back to back, I felt like that was a good goal tonight,” he added. “That was one of my goals tonight. I won and then didn’t win, won and didn’t win. I really wanted to win back to back. We set little goals but just keep the focus at this point.”

Dungey’s Daytona win marked his fourth in 10 races this season, now comfortably ahead of Honda duo Trey Canard and Eli Tomac in the 2015 standings.