Race Report: St Louis Supercross

St Louis Supercross track layout

St. Louis Supercross brought us some great racing action in the 250's and 450 class. Some crashes to stir things up, as well as the arenacross champions jumping into the east coast leg of the 250 and 450 class to mix things up!

Ken Roczen

The 450 main event was full of some great racing and lots of battles happening all over the track. Davi Millsaps got off the line in first place to win the Nuclear Cowboys holeshot for $1500. He was ultimately overtaken by Ryan Villopoto after 2 laps of racing. Justin Brayton, Kevin Windham, Ryan Dungey, and James Stewart were close behind.  Stewart went down shortly into the first lap and got knocked to the back of the field while the top 3 of Villopoto, Millsaps, and Brayton stayed unchanged until lap nine.

Stewart fought hard the entire race and managed to move up past his teammate to take 5th overall for the night.  After some battles for position Ryan Dungey came through the pack to 2nd place close behind Villopoto who took the win.  Brayton held onto 3rd place while Windham came in 4th.  Ryan Dungey was injured from a fall earlier in the week at practice which turned out to be a fratured collarbone. He must have been fighting through some pain to push it up into 2nd place. However he is going to be out for the upcoming races while he heals from sugery. Villopoto takes his 5th win for the series putting him 13 points ahead of Dungey.

James Stewart waiting to go out for practice

 The 250 race was dominated by Justin Barcia all 15 laps, with an average lap time of 51.873 which was actually better than Ryan Villopoto's average of 51.923. Of course Villopoto ran 5 extra laps, but Barcia is out there flying.  Justin Bogle was holding on tight to 3rd place right behind Ken Roczen, but he came up short on a jump and ended up crashing.  Allowing Blake Wharton and Darryn Durham to pass him with Bogle ended up in 5th place and Wharton grabbing 3rd with Durham just behind him in 4th.  Arenacross stars Tyler Bowers and Jeff Gibson made their first appearance for the east coast series this evening as well.  Bowers having a tough heat race ended up  in the LCQ.  He managed to get through the LCQ right behind Hunter Hewitt.  In the main event Bowers had an unfortunate off that put him in last place with mechanical problems. Jeff Gibson also suffered a bobble and fought his way back to finish 15th for the night.

Justin Barcia taking the win in lites

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Final Results for ST. Louis:
Supercross Lites Heat 1
1. Justin Barcia
2. Darryn Durham
3. Blake Baggett
4. Phil Nicoletti
5. PJ Larsen
6. Austin Politelli
7. Malcolm Stewart
8. AJ Catanzaro
9. Bradley Ripple
Supercross Lites Heat 2
1. Blake Wharton
2. Justin Bogle
3. Jake Canada
4. Ken Roczen
5. Alex Martin
6. Matt Lemoine
7. Kyle Cunningham
8. Jeff Gibson
9. Cole Thompson
Supercross Heat 1
1. James Stewart
2. Cole Seely
3. Ryan Dungey
4. Brett Metcalfe
5. Broc Tickle
6. Marvin Musquin
7. Jimmy Albertson
8. Matt Goerke
9. Kyle Chisholm
Supercross Heat 2
1. Ryan Villopoto
2. Justin Brayton
3. Jake Weimer
4. Davi Millsaps
5. Kevin Windham
6. Mike Alessi
7. Josh Hansen
8. Robert Kiniry
9. Justin Sipes
Supercross Lites LCQ
1. Hunter Hewitt
2. Tyler Bowers
Supercross LCQ
1. Nick Wey
2. Gavin Faith
Supercross Lites Main Event
1. Justin Barcia
2. Ken Roczen
3. Blake Wharton
4. Darryn Durham
5. Justin Bogle
6. Jake Canada
7. Malcolm Stewart
8. Kyle Cunningham
9. Blake Baggett
10. Alex Martin
11. Matt Lemoine
12. Hunter Hewitt
13. Cole Thompson
14. AJ Catanzaro
15. Jeff Gibson
16. Austin Politelli
17. PJ Larsen
18. Bradley Ripple
19. Phil Nicoletti
20. Tyler Bowers
Supercross Main Event
1. Ryan Villopoto
2. Ryan Dungey
3. Justin Brayton
4. Kevin Windham
5. James Stewart
6. Davi Millsaps
7. Jake Weimer
8. Brett Metcalfe
9. Marvin Musquin
10. Nick Wey
11. Broc Tickle
12. Matt Goerke
13. Mike Alessi
14. Robert Kiniry
15. Justin Sipes
16. Kyle Chisholm
17. Gavin Faith
18. Jimmy Albertson
19. Cole Seely
20. Josh Hansen
Supercross Lites East Point Standings
1. Justin Barcia 75
2. Ken Roczen 57
3. Darryn Durham 56
4. Blake Wharton 56
5. Justin Bogle 43
6. Jake Canada 41
7. Blake Baggett 40
8. Hunter Hewitt 31
9. Malcolm Stewart 29
10. Kyle Cunningham 28
Supercross Point Standings
1. Ryan Villopoto 205
2. Ryan Dungey 192
3. James Stewart 152
4. Chad Reed 128
5. Kevin Windham 123
6. Jake Weimer 120
7. Justin Brayton 116
8. Brett Metcalfe 113
9. Davi Millsaps 109
10. Mike Alessi 98