by Aaron Hansel
Morning Report: San Diego Supercross
Saturday, February 19, 2011 | 4:15 PM
Share
Comment
Email
PrintThe Supercross community has converged on Qualcomm Stadium here in San Diego, California, and with a 70% chance of precipitation this evening, everyone is bracing for the rain.
Local time is 1:00 pm, and so far, the weather has been holding out pretty well, although a few light sprinkles have already passed through. In light of the expected rain, the race day schedule has been changed, and free practice has been eliminated. Race directors have also opted to group the B and C practice groups together in order to help preserve the track for the evening program. For a look at the revised schedule, go here.
The track is still covered here in San Diego.
Photo: Aaron Hansel
Some of the privateers plan on racing their practice bikes, and the Dunlop Tire guys have stacks and stacks of wheels waiting for mud tires to be installed on them. The Dunlop guys say they plan on running MX51’s on the front and rear, unless it gets extremely sloppy. In that case, they will be installing MX31’s on the rear.
The rain was pounding San Diego yesterday, and if it comes down tonight as hard as it was yesterday, survival is definitely going to be the order of the night. Hopefully Feld has equipped the track crew with scuba gear!
Make sure to stay tuned to www.racerxonline.com all day, and follow us on Twitter (@racerxonline) for live updates from San Diego, all day long.
Did you like this article?
Check out ACTION FIGURE
in our Latest issue of Racer X available now.
Troy Lee Designs/Lucas Oil Honda’s Cole Seely is a man of many talents— skateboarding, BMX, import drifting … and he’s pretty good at this motocross thing, too. Page 156 .
Look for the verified symbol 
Impulse Studios
It will be funny if RV still wins, even though they try to eliminate any mud advantage they think he might possess.
How stupid do the dunlop marketing people think we are? They want us to believe that most weeks, hard pack or sloppy mid, 90% of the guys in the main are running stock MX51s. What a joke. Whatever the dirt is like, I'd be interested to hear when there is actually is a stock dunlop tire in a 450 main.
Poto and K'rocz are gonna sweep this one
I know, the Dunlop comment is laughable!
Poto is a short dude so mud is going to be difficult for him. This night belongs to guys like Millsaps,Windham,Stewart. We saw how the Dunge did last year in the mud............he sucked!!!!!!!
I'd like to see dungey do well,like to see a tight points race.K-dub should do well,one short guy that does(did)well in mud was ricky,like to see him dust off his gear and smoke everyone
You're much more likely to run into the GOAT grazing at the snack bar than finding him in a truck trying to squeeze it into that dusty gear. hahaha
a fan of the sport.. Windham, Dungey, Brayton, Milsaps & Reed.. Are the "longer" riders compared to the somewhat "midgets" of riders such as JS, RV and company..
If it is a mudfest.. All riders above 5"10, shud have a small advantage..
I hope K-Dub wins..
if it's muddy go take a look at Milsaps and Braytons rear tires... :)
fan of the sport, Stewie isnt that tall either, If its muddy, K-Dub always does good. Reed proved to be a good mud rider the one year in Daytona, but it doesnt look like its going to be that bad.