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--  Smarty's take on AMA SX Rnd 6 --  Images - Gallery A - --  San Diego: 450 Class Report: The Californian part of the 2013 AMA Supercross series finished up with the San Diego round and Davi Millsaps put together the best possible ride to take the victory and a handy points lead as the teams head east to Arlington, Texas for round 7. After taking a good look at Millsaps performance over the first six rounds I think I have cracked the secret to his success. Millsaps, with the help of former factory star Ezra Lusk, has put procedures and methodology into the way he starts and finishes each lap of a supercross race. Davi is taking away the variables that distract you from putting down fast laps time and time again. Just watch when Chad catches Davi at San Diego, he just kept riding the same lines, hit the same braking marks and very rarely did he make a mistake, and when he did he gathered it up and got back into his rhythm very quickly. While other racers are ‘attacking’ the track, Davi is circulating to a planned lap time that he knows he can do for the full 20 laps and while his rivals are crashing and spewing off the track he is just putting it all together. Read his post-race remarks and tell me I am wrong. The interesting thing is with the AMA Supercross circus now heading away from California the tracks start getting the little trickier and that is historically when the likes of Chad, Dungey and Villopoto should start to shine and Davi’s ‘game plan’ will be tested if or when he gets a bad start. Millsaps start to finish win at San Diego over-shadowed the chaos that was happening behind. With Millsaps, Reed and Barcia out front, Justin Brayton, Brock Tickle, James Stewart, Ryan Dungey, Ryan Villopoto and Andrew Short were all vying for the same piece of dirt then Reed crashed from second to join this group. Dungey got a little forceful and managed to move through to third while Villopoto hit the dirt on the same berm that Chad crashed on leaving Stewart in fourth with Reed sitting on his rear fender trying to find a way by his arch rival but as the track got slicker the passing opportunities dried up as fast as the track did. Villopoto will be gutted to finish back in sixth while on the other hand Brayton will wrapped to be in seventh. Trey Cannard made his way from almost last to pass Andrew Short for eighth place in the dying laps and finally the mobile chicane Mike Alessi came home in 10th place. In the end Millsaps won comfortably from Barcia who had a similar gap back to Dungey. “I got the holeshot and I just put my head down and was just riding my solid 20 laps, I was riding lap for lap and hitting my mark every time and trying not to make many mistakes. I was making some mistakes here and there which were kind of slowing me up a lot. But they were going fast. It was a great 20 laps. It was a good battle for all 20 laps. I didn’t have it easy,” said Millsaps after the race (see told ya, this guy is lapping to a set program). Unfortunately Daniel McCoy was ruled out of San Diego due to injuries sustained at A3. "I won't be racing this one at San Diego, I got wiped out by another riders bike in the whoops in the last practice session at A3,” said McCoy. "I was able to ride it out for the night, though I probably made it worse as it has been hurting all week and after trying to ride today through the whoops I don't have enough grip strength.” San Diego - 450SX Results Heat 1 (Top 9 to Main): 1. J. Stewart. 2. D. Millsaps. 3. T. Canard. 4. R. Dungey. 5. M. Lemoine. 6. B. Tickle. 7. R. Kiniry. 8. P. Larsen. 9. B. Lamay. Heat 2 (Top 9 to Main): 1. R. Villopoto. 2. A. Short. 3. C. Reed. 4. C. Blose. 5. J. Barcia.6. M. Goerke. 7. J. Brayton. 8. W. Peick. 9. M. Alessi. LCQ (Top 2 to Main): 1. J. Hill. 2. K. Partridge. Main Event: 1. Davi Millsaps. 2. Justin Barcia. 3. Ryan Dungey. 4. James Stewart. 5. Chad Reed. 6. Ryan Villopoto. 7. Justin Brayton. 8. Trey Canard. 9. Andrew Short. 10. Mike Alessi. 11. Broc Tickle. 12. Matthew Goerke. 13. Matt Lemoine. 14. Weston Peick. 15. PJ Larsen. 16. Robert Kiniry. 17. Chris Blose. 18. Josh Hill. 19. Ben Lamay. 20. Kyle Partridge. 450SX Points after 6 of 17 Rounds: 1. Davi Millsaps 132 Pts. 2. Ryan Dungey 113 Pts. 3. Ryan Villopoto 105 Pts. 4. Trey Canard 97 Pts. 5. Chad Reed 97 Pts. 6. Justin Barcia 83 Pts. 7. Andrew Short 83 Pts. 8. James Stewart 74 Pts. 9. Justin Brayton 67 Pts. 10. Broc Tickle 57 Pts. 11. Matt Goerke 56 Pts. 12. Jake Weimer 48 Pts. 13. Mike Alessi 40 Pts. 14. Josh Grant 40 Pts. 15. Kyle Chisholm 37 Pts. 16. Matt Lemoine 34 Pts. 17. Vince Friese 30 Pts. 18. Weston Peick 29 Pts. 19. Kevin Windham 21 Pts. 20. Jimmy Albertson 21 Pts. --  San Diego 250SX Class Report: Rockstar Energy Racing’s Jason Anderson grabbed the holeshot and held off Eli Tomac for the first 5 laps while championship leader Ken Roczen got by fellow KTM riders Malcolm Stewart and Joey Savatgy to move into third. Stewart would soon crash and finish 20th while Savatgy continues to impress. Tomac tried a block pass on Anderson before the big triple and when it didn’t come off Eli had back out of the triple which allowed Roczen onto his back wheel. When I watched Tomac pull out of that triple my admiration for his race craft went up a notch, it would have been so hard not to pull the trigger on his Honda and hope he could clear the triple (ala Justin Barcia at round three) but Eli is too smart for that. Tomac stayed in second and then moved up to Anderson again but this time he made a nice inside move to take the lead and two laps later Roczen put a nice block pass on Anderson to move into second some 5 seconds back from Tomac. Like Millsaps, when he is on his game Tomac can smack out fast laps time and time again but then lap traffic started coming into play and Roczen moved to within a few bike lengths but there was never an opportunity to pass so Tomac got the win from Roczen, Anderson and Austin Politelli who put in his best ride for the year. Unfortunately we won’t get to see these guys back on the track for another 9 weeks when they get back to business at Seattle. The sooner they combine the East/West 250SX classes the better. It was his last ride in America for 2013 and Josh Cachia made the most of it with a ninth place in his hea and a solid 12th in the main event while Kade Mosig JUST missed out on a transfer from his heat with a tenth place then an eighth place in the LCQ put pay to a spot in the main. Cachia has no ride for the MX Nationals at the time of writing while Mosig will return and start testing for the Zero Seven Kawasaki team. San Diego - 250SX Results Heat 1 (Top 9 to Main): 1. K. Cunningham. 2. E. Tomac. 3. J. Savatgy. 4. A. Politelli. 5. M. Stewart. 6. T. Baker. 7. J. Ramos. 8. A. Siminoe. 9. C. Gores. 10. K. Mosig Heat 2 (Top 9 to Main): 1. M. Davalos. 2. J. Anderson. 3. C. Craig. 4. K. Roczen. 5. Z. Osborne. 6. T. Rattray. 7. C. Plouffe. 8. T. Bright. 9. J. Cachia LCQ (Top 2 to Main): 1. C. Craig. 2. J. Nelson. 250SX Main Event: 1. Eli Tomac. 2. Ken Roczen. 3. Jason Anderson. 4. Austin Politelli. 5. Kyle Cunningham. 6. Travis Baker. 7. Zach Osborne. 8. Tyla Rattray. 9. Martin Davalos. 10. Jessy Nelson. 11. Joey Savatgy. 12. Josh Cachia. 13. Christian Craig. 14. Jean Ramos. 15. Cole Seely. 16. Aaron Siminoe. 17. Chad Gores. 18. Travis Bright. 19. Chris Plouffe.20. Malcom Stewart 250SX West Points after 6 of 9 Rounds: 1. Ken Roczen 138 Pts. 2. Eli Tomac 121 Pts. 3. Cole Seely 95 Pts. 4. Jason Anderson 88 Pts. 5. Kyle Cunningham 83 Pts. 6. Martin Davalos 82 Pts. 7. Zach Osborne 82 Pts. 8. Joey Savatgy 62 Pts. 9. Christian Craig 62 Pts. 10. Jessy Nelson 60 Pts. 11. Tyla Rattray 58 Pts. 12. Austin Politelli 57 Pts. 13. Travis Baker 53 Pts. 14. Malcom Stewart 46 Pts. 15. Max Anstie 38 Pts. 16. Ryan Sipes 31 Pts. 17. Josh Cachia 29 Pts. 18. Jake Canada 21 Pts. 19. Jean Ramos 21 Pts. 20. Michael Leib 16 Pts. 25. Kade Mosig 9 Pts --  Images - Round Six - Gallery A --  Images - Round Five - Gallery A - Gallery B - Gallery C - Gallery D - --  Images - Round Four - Gallery A - Gallery B - Gallery C - Gallery D - Gallery E - Gallery F - --  Images - Round Three - Gallery A - Gallery B - Gallery C - Gallery D - Gallery E - Gallery F - --  Images - Round Two - Gallery A - Gallery B - Gallery C - Gallery D - Gallery E - --  Images - Round One - Gallery A - Gallery B - Gallery C - Gallery D -

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- AMA Supercross 2013 -

RND 1 - MILLSAPS WINS ANAHEIM I	RND 2 - BARCIA WINS PHOENIX	RND 3 - RV OPENS ACCOUNT
RND 4 - RV & ROCZEN WIN OAKLAND	RND 5 - KTM DOMINATE ANAHEIM III	RND 6 - SAN DIEGO TO MILLSAPS

- AMA Supercross 2012 -

RND 1 - VILLOPOTO OPENS ACCOUNT	RND 2 - DUNGEY WINS PHOENIX	RND 3 - REED WINS AT DODGERS
RND 4 - BUBBA WINS OAKLAND	RND 5 - VILLOPOTO TAKES ANAHEIM II	RND 6 - VILLOPOTO AGAIN IN SAN DIEGO
RND 7 - VILLOPOTO WINS - REED OUT	RND 8 - DUNGEY WINS ATLANTA	RND 9 - VILLOPOTO BACK ON TOP
RND 10 - STEWART WINS DAYTONA	RND 11 - VILLOPOTO WINS INDY	RND 12 - VILLOPOTO WINS TORONTO
RND 13 - VILLOPOTO WINS TITLE	RND 14 - VILLOPOTO AGAIN	RND 15 - SHORT WINS SEATTLE
RND 16 - DUNGEY WINS SALT LAKE	RND 17 - DUNGEY WINS VEGAS

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