Torco Racing Fuels Honda Race Report: Houston Supercross

HOUSTON, Tex. – Torco Racing Fuels Honda and the team’s star rider Kevin
Windham had a breakthrough at the Houston, Texas round of the AMA
Supercross Championship. Windham is one of only two riders to have finished
every single main event so far in the top five, but in Houston, Windham took a
big leap forward, winning his first AMA Supercross main event of the season.

Windham started near the front in the main event and took over the lead when
Davi Millsaps crashed on lap two. From there, Windham led the remaining 19
laps. It was the 13th AMA Supercross win of his career, moving him past Ezra
Lusk and David Bailey to 12th on the all-time Supercross win list.

“It was a tough race, because it would’ve been easy to let your mind wander,
and I stayed focused,” Windham said. “When Chad [Reed] was in second, I
felt like I was inching away. I’m thankful for my team, Torco Racing Fuels
Honda, and Planet Fitness, and Amsoil, No Fear Energy, and Jeff Spencer. All
of those guys came together. There are a lot of pieces to the puzzle, and they
all came together for this.”

Windham’s win further solidified his spot at second in the championship, and
actually moved him up three points closer to Reed for the championship lead
with 10 races still left to run.

The Lites class also saw success for the Torco Racing Fuels Honda squad, as
Phoenix winner Jake Weimer got a start near the front of the pack, and then
fought it out with the leaders on his way to a solid third-place podium finish.
“I got a pretty decent start, and then on the first lap, I was like third or fourth
– I was towards the front – and I wasn’t able to do the finish line and got
passed like three times,” Weimer said of the start of the race. “Then, there
were a bunch of us going back and forth, and Dungey went by me. Then, he
made a mistake, and I went back by him, and then he got back by me, then
he made another mistake and I went back by him, and then I never saw him
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