Dallas Super Spoiler Report
Saturday, February 16, 2013 | 11:25 PM
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PrintAt Cowboys Stadium, Ryan Villopoto got back up on top by snagging a great start and steadily pulling away from the competition. The real battle was for second, as Chad Reed scrubbed under Davi Millsaps on lap one, but a few laps later, Millsaps got him back. Ryan Dungey was right there, and he made an aggressive pass on Reed to take over third. Late in the race, Dungey closed up on Millsaps fender, but couldn’t find time or a place to show him a wheel, putting the series points leader (Millsaps) into another solid second place. Reed was fourth and Justin Brayton was a solid fifth. Justin Barcia and Trey Canard had bad starts, Barcia closed in on Brayton and one point but couldn’t hold it and finished sixth. Canard was seventh, then came Matt Goerke, Andrew Short and Broc Tickle. James Stewart won a heat race over Villopoto, but the clutch in his bike broke on the starting line of the main event, and he was unable to race.
Millsaps points lead is now up to 21 on Dungey.
In 250 East, Dean Wilson was the favorite coming into the opener, and he definitely is leaving it, because he dominated the main event. Kyle Peters grabbed the holeshot, but Wilson quickly took the lead away and pulled a gap. Blake Wharton came through for second, while Wil Hahn worked his way up for a solid third. Lots of heart break in this class, as rookie Zach Bell crashed huge while leading his heat race, then qualified through the LCQ, but then crashed again and pulled off in the main. Fellow rookie Jeremy Martin was fast in practice but didn’t make the main after a bad start in the LCQ. And Canada’s Cole Thompson was making a bid for the podium, he passed Peters for third but then crashed hard, ending his race. Also, title contender Marvin Musquin went down in turn one, but he salvaged a seventh.
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Stewart has the worst luck EVER, I swear!!
Great night of racing, atta Boy Dean and very happy to see Davi keeping the points lead.
Agree, good night of racing overall. There was a of of interesting things happening out there. But that first turn was jacked. Congrats to all.
dam that would have been a better race with js in it we got screwed
Another lousy track!!! Would be sweet to see some other designs.Instead of down a long straight,90 degree corner,long straight,90 degree corner.Its getting a little old.Looking forward to watching some racing with "real" dirt too!
Stewart has the worst luck? Were you around in 2011? This stuff is the norm for Suzuki under Webb. I'd say going to Suzuki is just another poor decision in a huge string of them for Stewart. He deserves nothing more anyway. He knew he was going to a broke team with an incompetent manager, you have to expect this to happen.
Lighten up, dude........no matter how YOU want to spin it, or who you want to blame, the guy has some pretty bad luck at times!! Oh and "He deserves nothing more anyway"?? Really?? Whatever!!
thats a bit harsh
@warrior42, what kind of idiot are you??? That was just a stupid statement to make. Go back under your rock and stay there!
@warrior42 your an idiot, you most likely don't have the know how to even give a semi accurate analysis of a FACTORY TEAM! Things happen, I remember Reeds Yammy having issues before the starting line and blowing up with a lap to go, RC's bike had a shock collar break in a main.... Learn how to turn a wrench, or go back to messing with Go-Peds... Your post is down right ignorant.
Hey Overskil, do you now what 90 degree is ? They were mostly 180. learn to read a compus!
I raced for over 20 years, all in. I've never, ever had a clutch fail while I was sitting on a cold gate. Never. On the way to staging? Yes. After the gate dropped? Yes. Sitting there with the engine off, waiting on the race to start? No. Never. Because there are very few components that can fail under those circumstance with the engine off. And even fewer that would not have been evident on the ride up to the gate. This was a team failure, for sure. But not a mechanical.
3yrs ago if you told someone ther would be more ktm's in a race then kawasaki's, they'd asume you're on crack. Good to see them invest the right people, the funds & equipment into mx/sx. Sport needs all the factory support it can get.
Who gives a damn about the guy who was not on the line! Congrats Deano and RV!!
every body loves talking about js7 what would we do with out him. who won the race
I was thinking that Stewart might want to do some hiring that is affirmative on the action tip so he has more nights like tonight.
You know. Hiring a mechanic who would qualify for being affirmative on the action tip.
hey bubba is that supercross record still Stewable? fail...boy did you ever miss the mark in dirt bike racing. has anyone ever gone from top of the world to mediocrity so fast?
The racists have spoken. Is there anyone else out there who has some facts to bring to the discussion, or is this going to devolve into yet another Scopes Trial?
And fellas, the cleaners called ... Your sheets are ready to be picked up.
Thoughts on tonight:
1. RV got the start and that was all he needed to disappear.
2. Millsaps continues to impress.
3. Nice to see Dungey show some stones when he passed Reed.
4. JS7 does have some bad luck. Some of it is JS7-made, but tonight was out of his hands. I was hoping for so much more.
5. Canard better figure out his starts soon.
6. Reed is just about out of this title fight, he's not the same guy as he was pre-Dallas 2011.
7. Is Will Hahn going to cry every time he gets interviewed on live TV? I think he blubbered at A1 after his heat race win last year too.
8. Wilson was blazing, still not a fan but so long as he's healthy he is the East 250 champ.
9. I sincerely hope the Geico Honda camp sits Zach Bell down for a serious talk. The kid is fast but he cannot keep hitting the ground as hard and as frequently as he has in his first few pro races or he is going to have a very short career.
10. I thought Musquin did a good ride to come back to 6th after his 1st turn follies.
Finally, what was with the broadcast camera work? Showing me a battle for 11th when Reed and Dungey are fighting for 3rd. I thought overall the camera work was atrocious tonight. Too many times they were focusing on lesser battles and missing something near the front. Maybe the crew needs to PREPARATE better!
warrior462....
I worked under Webb for 2 years. He got the job because he is very capable of running a factory team.
Keep your negative thoughts balled up inside and take it out on your wife or kids while you wear your wife beater while sucking down your Keystone Lights!!!!
You have no clue what you are talking about!!!!
Forgot to mention, as a Canadian the crash that Cole Thompson had while running 3rd broke my heart! Hope he's OK.
@SuperSXFanMan, while your statement about the clutch is mostly true, did you go to the race, or have you gone to a race? It broke trying to go out for the sight lap, I'm sure you've seen those at a race maybe once or twice. So did it break sitting on the gate with the engine off, no, it broke when he simulated letting it out or pulling it in, hence the failure. You have officially won douche bag of the night award!!
Warrior462 keeps his string of dumba*s remarks intact.........@supersx ...how do you know something simple didn't just break...EVERTHING breaks...sometimes when you least expect it ...it might actually be something else and he just said clutch...just like I have said i fouled a plug with a rod sticking through the cases.... Millsaps blew up in a heat a few back....maybe theres a problem ....but "team failure " whats that.?..the ability to see into the future..I think Yosh is capable of building a good motor ...ya think...I doubt if ANYONE else lays a hand on it.....would have been a potentially good night for JS7 and ole paint....bummer....no matter RV = G O N E.....trouble. Next week JS& will be back and T-mac joins the fray...just keeps gettin better....hope they import some traction......
Everyone can say what they want about JS7, but tonight wasn't his fault. He had no control of that. If you watched the heat race, Js7 had RV2 covered tonight. Js7 winning Atlanta. Stamp it!! Looking like his old self
Not exactly sure, but I believe he said over the PA that the cable broke.
tonewall, don't worry about it. In the 450SX column the SuperSXfan guy KNEW that JS threw the race to help Saps. Ahhhh, yeah. He's got a theory a minute. You have given more thought to what he wrote than he did. Believe it.
Oh, major props to Zach Bell, that kid deserves whatever trophy they can come up with for coming back out and riding, much less making the main. That crash was UGLY, he was dropped like a stone at speed off his bike clearing the triple. He should of been carried out on a stretcher making a trip to the hospital, boys got balls of steel!!
@mbl1970 I hear you on Zach Bell...that is one tuff little sob...twice it one night...he 'll toughen up nicely.....hope he dials it back a notch and sticks around awhile ...kids got talent...and guts...
Did anyone else have the crap of not being able to hear the bikes, only the commentary?
Great to watch the race live but had no sound except from the commentators. It was the same for the last live coverage. Is it the same for everyone else? I'm watching in Australia on espn2.
Me too (in Oz). Atleast the mains last week you could hear the bikes. It made it crap to watch except when they went live to the track (twice).
Do any of you mental midgets actually think you know what you are talking about?
i wonder what Brett Metcalfe thinks about another Suzuki dnf ? or was it? something stinks on that team since the man left.
speed needs to put Windham on the telecast!! R.C. was the goat in mx, not so much as a t.v. commentator
Stewart should start his own team like Reed did, that way he can have his dad be the team mananger and mechanic. How do you think his mechanic felt when he relieved of his starting line duties and replaced with Big James? Pretty crappy I bet.
@ronnie.........The reason Kawi and any other team doesn't even want Stewart is nobody wants to deal with his blowhard Dad and the entourage that goes with it.
For the others that are stating Racists, WTF? Just because people are talking about the clutch. Give me a brake. Hate to say it, but the East 250's don't look very deep compared to the West. They should just run the best 250 guys the
whole year and forget the stupid layover with rounds. If Deano can't win this,
then there is something wrong..
Ham cheese:
Good point on the camera work. Neither per peeve of mine. Plus they got to use the "ceiling-cam" they are so fond of when they have a venue with a roof. Watching them freight train around for 20 laps gets even worse when you can't tell who the camera is following because the shot is from roof-cam.
another good night of racing , but i would of like to see both ryans beat millsaps . but millsaps proved once again that he is one of the elite and he is for real. i do want a closer points battle and one that goes down to vegas. and i do believe millsaps will have one race outside top 7 and that will allow it close up . it will be fun to hear reed talk about getting passed , hope he sacks up and says they were faster than he was instead of excuses . dungey darn near planted him which was great to see !
Maybe Big James took over the mechanical duties and adjusted that clutch for better starts and fried it on the way to the starting line. Or maybe the mechanic being relieved of his duties in the heat race decided to give the Stewarts a parting shot. Oh I love how every track is just the same with 45 second lap times, with 1 thru 5 finishing like they came out of the gate. Don't talk about being in shape for supercross with 16 and 12 minute mains.. Hours of BS and it goes down to this, bring on the outdoor and some Mans motocross. I don't watch supercross just read about it or check results on the timer later.
as for speed they need to be applauded for covering the series live , but they really really need to figure out how to cover the race better. they are doing things a little better but we as viewers are having a difficult time figuring out why they are showing what they show . we are watching a battle for 13th and all you hear is the crowd going nuts because something is happening up front and emig and the gang are doing the best they can . you can tell they are in a booth watching what we are , and talking about whats on screen and thats what they are paid to do. i wish we could get a new format and let emig call it live instead of in a booth.
I believe Stewart had a hydraulic clutch. Failures happen like Roczen had. One of the seals tears or hardens and it starts has blowby. Nothing he can really so except replace of rebuild the master cylinder. Maybe it was fading in the heat and James didn't realize it.. Who knows. But I'm sure it won't happen again, they will be prepared.
RC &Emig; are not a good TV combo. they seem to have a mano v. mano thing going on. watch them both when the other is talking. i wonder if JS7 were still in the points how that DNF would have gone down with big james!! not well i bet
There is a lot of talk about Suzuki not supporting Millsaps Rock Star and Alessi moto Concepts teams. Maybe they are better off with out it. Between the problems that Dungey had ( running out of gas in Texas and missing the start at Southwick) and James missing the start last night, they seem to be doing fine without the Factory stuff.
I agree with jrdiner Emig and RC aren't working anymore. And Ralph never really for me.I am sure it is hard to make each broadcast different but darn it seems like ground hog day every week.
I am begining to wander if JS 7 has something going on that keeps him from wanting to race the mains. Even after the heat win he didn't seem excited about the main. Call me a racist but I wander if we haven't been getting smoke blown up our rear ends all year by this crew.
Same every race for the last 3 years.. The greatest practice rider ever.. Hasnt even hot the podium and now a racist like SXFANMAN says he was ASKED to not win for the benefit of a rider ON ANOTHER TEAM!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! How dumb is that.???? We all know he post under a different name and this is his new name, he spews the same BS as always.. I hated to see Stewart not race, the more the merrier, and he is getting his speed back....but the Stewtards really make is hard to cheer for him because of their ignorance..
How doesn't have a hydraulic clutch, I went back and looked. Weird.. I wonder what happened. Very curious
Stewart would have won that race with a decent start. What a bum deal, give that man a little confidence and its trouble up front again.
Suzuki sure has strange issues, one of the reasons I'm a Honda man.
How about Zachary Bell?? Poor kid. He must be made of rubber.. I tend to think he is soaking in ice today
It would have been interesting to have Stewart out there. I was pretty bummed when they announced what was going on and feel pretty bad for the guy. Would he have won with a decent start? Seriously, who knows. He was fast in practice but he also crashed in both timed practices so, again, who knows what would have happened but it would have been nice to see him out there battling because the 450 race turned out to be a snoozer with a little excitement only coming from Dungey passing Reed.
That first turn was horrible but I was surprised (and happy) to see that it didn't turn out that bad during the races. The dirt is fine but dirt works needs to get with the watering program. The track had hardly any moisture in it all day. They were spraying some turns with a garden hose occasionally but as someone who has their track I can say that once you get to that point, you've already lost.
Really sux for Bubbles. I understand the dad helping with starts, if your a ROOKIE!!!!! He is a seasoned multi-time champ!!! As a fan of CR22, he has to win, and win now!!! this 4th place, fading crap is not going to win a title!!!! RV looked great!!!, Millsaps is still scary fast, and Props to RD5 for bumping his way around Reed!!! nice to see aggression.
The 250 East is not loaded at all. That has to be one of the thinnest lineups I have seen in years.
SuperSXFan is the D-Bag of the year. No matter what if someone says anything negative about his mancrush James, he immediately calls them a racist.
Funny that nobody says anything negative about Malcolm...Ya think maybe James earned some of the negativity?
As far as possible clutch issues go, I have had my hydraulic clutch get air bubbles from a small leak. Even if you don't lose a ton of fluid, the fluid gets replaced with air and that is not good for a hydraulic clutch.
I have also had the end of cables break on a standard clutch where the ball sets into the actuator. Stuff happens. I wish James would have not had the issue but it is what it is...
Maybe SuperSXfan should say next that Webb is a racist and he sabotaged James bike so that Milsaps would win....Anything is possible coming out of that D-Bag race baiter.
Yep, great race last night. Congrats to Millsaps, and the Ryans for being up front last night. Very bummed Reed couldn't do better than 4th, at the same time, glad his season is still very much alive and that he's healthy. Can't wait to see him get another win. Also bummed for Stewart. Definitely seems the guy can't get a break this year. Not sure he woulda won tho, He had the speed in practice, and during that Heat race, but keeping pace with Saps and the Ryans for 20 laps woulda been very tough for him. And that's assuming he wouldn't've gone down either. I wanna say Reed had the same trouble, that and not wanting a repeat of last year. Looking forward to seeing how Tomac can hang with these guys in Atlanta.
The repercussions of Bells crash will be felt at a later date.. The asterics * crew and team leads Geico should of " errored " on the side of caution. Not that the kid isnt tuff..Who cares about mocho stuff. Every Macho man I know is a dead man!
Great to see Tomac in the big class next week ! It will put a big question on the points moving forward. And congrats to short getting Windhams ride ! LOL
bubbles his name is james fat man
@ bigtireguy
Its all over for Reed after 7 event and about 3minutes in time back of the winner his average time behind the winner has to be over 20 seconds plus back so that equates to off over 1 second plus a lap off pace.. So in that respect good luck!
I predict 1> Dungey 2> Poto 3> Millsaps
I remember when James' dad was watching his son's lackluster performance at a race early in James' career. Fat James was windmilling his arms around like the propeller on a two stroke alcohol-burning RC airplane, totally going off like Jesse Jackson when he doesn't get his way, then actually walked away, down the tunnel, leaving his son behind in his time of need, "showing out" in a tantrum of total disgust. Some father.
Big James was a big cheat when it came to Loretta Lynns....... He should of been disqualified multiple times but they let him off.. You talk about Reverse discrimination.... LOL
Redneckrider, it is what it is. Several of you have shown your stripes - so live with it.
It is pretty interesting fact that big James was on the line instead of Lee and they have there 1st mechanical DNS, or was that just in the heat? Either way, let's talk about the guys who were actually on the line. It's funny that everyone is saying that Reed is washed up, yet he is still 5th in points. Better than anyone of us keyboard jockeys! He did fade pretty bad, but everyone has brought there A game this year. But with that said, after watching Reeds interview prior to the race, I still believe that he will punch out at the end of the year.
@Glock26: Sorry to tell you Short is not getting Windham's ride, it says on his website he'll join BTO Sports KTM, alongside Matt Goerke
@SuperSXFanMan--And you DEFINATELY showed yours--AKA--StarPlaya4Life--Racist!!