Red Riders Race Report: San Francisco Supercross class -ozzy go-

San Francisco is known for its cold, rainy weather—and that’s
exactly what the riders got at the SF round of the AMA/FIM
Supercross Series. Rainy, muddy conditions often scramble the
field, but on this night, the Honda Red Bull Racing and Honda
Torco Racing Fuels teams tackled the challenge head-on.

Both Honda Torco Racing Fuels CRF450R rider Kevin Windham
and Honda Red Bull Racing CRF450R rider Davi Millsaps led the
final race at various points, with Windham finally grabbing
second place at the checkered flag and Millsaps taking third.
All in all, there were six Honda CRF450Rs in the top ten.

The first heat race showed the soggy crowd just how strong the
Honda riders were going to be, with Kevin Windham taking the
win in confident style, nearly 15 seconds ahead of Mike Alessi.
Honda Red Bull Racing’s Andrew Short grabbed third, with Honda
CRF450Rs occupying six of the top ten spots.

Heat race 2 was another strong Honda showing, with Honda Red
Bull Racing’s Davi Millsaps hounding Chad Reed for the win,
finally settling for second place just eight tenths of a second
behind. Honda Red Bull Racing’s Davi Millsaps hounding Chad
Reed for the win, finally settling for second place just eight
tenths of a second behind. Honda Red Bull Racing’s Ivan
Tedesco was just 4.8 seconds back in third, with CRF450R pilots
Heath Voss seventh and Eric Sorby eighth.

Mistakes are inevitable on a muddy, greasy track like this, and
it was a series of minor flips and flops that finally decided the
evening’s outcome. Honda Torco Racing Fuels rider Kevin
Windham rocketed past holeshot winner Tim Ferry on the first
lap and led the procession to lap four, with Honda Red Bull
Racing’s Davi Millsaps close behind. Davi soon made the pass on
Kevin, taking the lead with his exciting, damn-the-torpedoes style.

And it was here that the track conditions momentarily got the
best of Windham. Coming off a jump, K-Dub’s bike snapped and
landed crossed-up. Windham hung on and never fell, but he
plowed off the track and let Reed past into second.

Meanwhile, Davi Millsaps was flying, tripling where other riders
were doubling. But his time at the front would be short-lived, as
a tumble into the SafeBlocks let the charging Reed, who had
made his mistake with with a mediocre start, surge to the front.
Millsaps eventually recovered his composure to take his first
podium of the season in third, and Kevin Windham got his best
placing yet this year in second, solidifying his hold on the number-
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