Suzuki Racing News

Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing’s Ryan Dungey was victorious at the AMA Supercross LItes race in Seattle, Washington’s on April 18th.

Dungey got off to a great start on his Suzuki RM-Z250 and gapped the field to take the 15-lap race. He now has a nine point lead in the championship points race going into the final round of the Supercross LItes West Coast series next weekend.

In the Supercross class, Rockstar Makita Suzuki’s Mike Alessi got the holeshot on his RM-Z450, led the way for the first few laps and then battled for a podium spot the rest of the way. However, he came of his bike momentarily, but got back on to finish in fourth place. Rockstar Makita Suzuki teammate Chad Reed had a tough time though. The defending, two-time AMA Supercross Champion fell at the beginning of the event and found the going was pretty tough from then on. Reed ended up in seventh place. Michael Byrne is still injured and didn’t compete.

Dungey said, “The track was falling apart out there but everybody stayed focused and worked hard. I was able to get a good start in the main and just took it from there… I’m just really happy with how the race went, the fans were great and now I have some momentum going into next weekend.”

Alessi said he got off to a good start by leading the first seven laps, but ended up paying for his mistake. However he was happy that he made up some points on racers in front of him in the standings.

The disappointed Reed said there are still two races left and anything is possible so he is now focusing on the races in Salt Lake City.

Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing will race again at Rice Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 25.

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