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Wharton Wins his First Lites Class Race of the Season – News Release INDIANAPOLIS (March 17, 2012) – In front of 59,872 fans at Lucas Oil Stadium, Ryan Villopoto, of Poulsbo, Wash., captured his sixth Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, victory. Rockstar Energy Racing Suzuki’s Blake Wharton, of Pilot Point, Texas, won [...]
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Fly Racing News Release Round two of the GNCC series took place only four days after round one and the short recovery time between rounds made for some tough conditions. Once again FLY riders represented with team riders near the front of the pack in each of their classes at “The General” GNCC in Washington, [...]
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Red Bull/KTM News Release Indianapolis, IN – Red Bull/KTM Factory rider Ken Roczen had the best and worst night of his season after leading the AMA Supercross Lites main event at Lucas Oil Stadium through the first half of the race before a big crash cost him the win. Roczen had a great qualifying time [...]
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News Release Indianapolis, IN – Red Bull/KTM Factory rider Marvin Musquin earned another top ten result at the Indianapolis Supercross in his final Supercross class race of the season at the Lucas Oil Stadium. Musquin had a decent heat race starting inside the top ten. After the eight lap race, he had climbed up a [...]
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Monster Energy Pro Circuit News Release CORONA, Calif., (March 19, 2012) – Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis played host to Monster Energy Supercross this past Saturday, and Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Darryn Durham, Blake Baggett, and Broc Tickle were on hand to contribute to a historical night of racing. Durham earned the third podium of his [...]
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Bel-Ray News Release Bel-Ray racers were in action this past weekend at the Monster Energy Supercross series in Indianapolis, Indiana, and at the Thor Mill Creek Spring Classic in Mill Creek, Alabama. Team Rockstar Energy Racing Suzuki’s Blake Wharton started well in the main event and was in 3rd place when the race was stopped [...]
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Husqvarna News Release Corona, CA – March 19, 2012 – Just four days after battling to the final lap in Florida, Jason Thomas and Glenn Kearney mounted up for round two of the Grand National Cross Country (GNCC) series. Riding with the same intensity as they had done at round one, the Husqvarna duo matched [...]
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Jeff Ward News Release The DNA Energy Drink / Jeff Ward Racing team rolled into Indianapolis for round 11 at Lucas Oil Stadium Saturday night with the return of Josh Grant who had been out for the last seven rounds with a shoulder injury sustained during round 3 at Dodger Stadium in January. In his [...]
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David Knight News Release Following a 2011 season wrecked by injury, KTM Enduro Factory Team rider David Knight returns to the Enduro World Championship next weekend fit, strong, and determined to win another Enduro 3 world title. Here the three-time E3 champion talks about how his pre-season preparations have gone and his hopes for the [...]
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Taddy Blazusiak News Release KTM Enduro Factory Team rider Taddy Blazusiak has finished as overall runner-up at the second round of the Spanish Enduro Championship, held in Antas, Almeria. Competing in what was the FIM SuperEnduro World Champion’s final pre US Endurocross event, Taddy put his disappointing performances at the Spanish opener behind him to [...]
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GNCC News Release Washington, GA – Factory FMF/KTM rider Kailub Russell took the win at second round of the GNCC Series dubbed ‘The General’ marking his second XC1 class win of his professional career. Russell had a rough start off the line coming around the first corner mid-pack. He quickly set to work to pick [...]
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Yoshimura Suzuki News Release INDIANAPOLIS, IN (March 18, 2012) – Yoshimura Suzuki Racing celebrated their best night of Supercross so far this year at round 11 of the 2012 AMA/FIM Supercross Series at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN, on Saturday night. Brett Metcalfe raced his Yoshimura Suzuki RM-Z450 to his first-ever Supercross-class heat race [...]
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Troy Lee Designs News Release Cole Seely ended his run as fill-in rider for Factory Honda on a good note by finishing fifth in the Lucas Oil stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. By all accounts it was a successful experiment as Seely put in several great rides during his time on Trey Canard’s CRF450. Saturday night [...]
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Pirelli Tires news Release Indianapolis, Indiana, March 18, 2012 – 59,872 fans filled the stands at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana for round 11 of the 2012 Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship series. Rallying from a one-two win in Daytona, team JGRMX/ Toyota/ Yamaha’s Davi Millsaps finished with his second podium of the season [...]
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Team Ohlins/Langston Motorsports/KTM News Release The team was at full strength this weekend with the return of Taylor Futrell (#86) who has been recovering from a collarbone injury. Les Smith (#46) and AJ Catanzaro (#93) both made the night show with 11th and 17th place qualifying times respectively. Taylor encountered some unfortunate mechanical issues in [...]
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