Grant Langston Back In The Premier SX Class Top Ten With 5th @ San Fran

Monster Energy’s Grant Langston (Yamaha) used his
championship Outdoor National MX skills to his advantage
in the mud-clogged Supercross class main event at San
Francisco’s AT&T Park this past Saturday, Round Four of
2008 Monster Energy AMA Supercross, and FIM World
Championship.

Langston, the reigning AMA Outdoor National MX champ,
overcame an early heat race crash to put up a heroic run
that had him all the way up to 4th place – only to cross rut
and crash again in the same spot – settling for the 6th place
transfer spot.

In the Supercross class main event, shortened from 20 laps
to 15 due to the heavy rain, Langston got a mid pack start
and had moved up rapidly into the top ten by the end of the
second lap when he crashed and fell back to near last place.
He managed to get his YZ450F back on the track and into
contention quickly, making up seven places in the next two
laps which put him a click away from the top ten.

“It certainly was wild out there,” said Langston. “I’d gone
down a couple times in my heat race, but knew everyone
else was having difficulties as well and it was possible to
pick up places in a hurry. So I was pushing it early when I
went down and decided it92d be best to try and keep it
upright and salvage some points.

“I was able to make it back into the top ten and eventually
to 5th. This does a lot to set ourselves up for a run at the
podium at the last Anaheim race this weekend.”

Langston, who’d finished 20th and 18th in the previous to
Supercross class main events, moved into 12th place overall
in the standings – just two points out of the top ten.

Next up for Monster Energy’s Grant Langston is Anaheim 3
at Angels Stadium, Feb. 2, Round Five of Monster Energy
Supercross. monsterenergy.com

pics from vitalmx.com