Chad Reed’s Triple Play -ozzy go- alpinestarsinc.com

After leading all 20 laps of the main event on a super-technical
racetrack built upon the base paths of the Los Angels Angels of
Anaheim Major League Baseball franchise, Chad Reed managed
to complete a triple play of victories inside Angel Stadium (witty
stuff, huh?). The fifth round of the 2008 Monster Energy Drink
AMA Supercross, Reed, overlord of the San Manuel/Fusion
Energy/Yamaha outfit scored a convincing victory over Red Bull
Honda's Davi Millsaps and Monster Energy Kawasaki's Tim Ferry.
Flashing across the finish line with five seconds to spare over
Millsaps, Reed, having now won four of the first five 2008 SX
main events, now holds down a commanding 26 point lead over
Torco Racing Fuel Honda rider Kevin Windham (for you
mathematicians out there, that’s a full victory-plus-one point
lead) in the AMA Supercross Championship points chase.

“After last weekend, I set some goals for myself, and winning this
race was definitely one of them,” said Reed. “I knew that if I won
the holeshot then I’d be able to get the job done so we focused
on starts during our testing this week and it paid off. I rode at a
steady pace and still had a lot left in the tank after the race.

“There were two big positives from the weekend, not only did we
win but we’ve also learnt a massive amount about the Yamaha YZ
450F,” Reed went on. “This has been a really satisfying event.”

One rider who did his best to keep Reed honest in Orange
County, was, in fact, Windham. The Honda rider actually pulled
even with Reed in the early stages of the main, but eventually fell
victim to a front tire that was slowly going flat/ Windham did his
best to hold onto fourth overall. Fifth went to Honda's Andrew
Short took fifth and sixth to Makita Suzuki's Mike Alessi.

In the always highly dramatic West Region Lites classification,
Team Boost Mobile Yamaha of Troy rider Jason Lawrence won for
the second consecutive Saturday night, claiming the 15-lap main
over Monster Energy Pro Circuit riders Austin Stroupe and Brett
Metcalfe. For Lawrence, the win was especially satisfying as
series’ leader Ryan Dungey experienced a woeful race when after
a bad start, landed atop Wil Hahn while making a frenzied charge
through the pack. When all was said and done, Dungey would
only get back to unlucky 13th place. Lawrence’s victory,
combined with Dungey’s bad luck, now sees Lawrence only eight
points adrift of Dungey in the chase for the AMA West Region
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