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I attended the Vancouver Supercross one year, when we did a road trip up from the Seattle area. I think there were more Americans that came up for that race than Canadians. I forget what year that was, and I don’t see the Vancouver SX results in the Racer X Online Vault. What year was that? As I recall RC won the race on a Suzuki. We were in the sparsely populated stands during practice and Roger De Coster showed up two rows below us to watch practice. He was the Suzuki team manager at that time. I just happened to be wearing a T-shirt with a cartoon De Coster on the front. Man, if I had only had a Sharpie with me! Thanks for any info on this.
Reese Dengler // Kent, WA
(Reese, the race you’re thinking about was the 2004 FIM World Supercross round at Vancouver, which Carmichael won on his new RM250 Suzuki. He had just switched from Team Honda and used the two Canadian rounds—Toronto and Vancouver—as a way to get used to the bike and the team. The race is not in the Vault because it was not an AMA-sanctioned race. But one day I think we should definitely add a column for WSX events like the ones in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Spain, as well as Canada. It might make a pretty cool magazine feature too: The Forgotten Supercrosses. DC)
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