Red Riders Race Report: Phoneix Supercross -ozzy go-

After the mud, sweat and cheers of Anaheim 1, the fast, dry
Phoenix Supercross track was something completely different.
And from the action on the track, both the riders and the crowd
approved.

It was also a standout performance from the Honda Red Bull
Racing team and Honda Torco Racing Fuels team. Kevin
Windham nailed down a spot on the podium with Andrew Short
and Ivan Tedesco following in fourth and fifth-places in the
Supercross main event. And young Jake Weimer did even
better, breaking through on his CRF250R to take his first-ever
Supercross Lites win, holding off a last-lap charge and coming
home a well-deserved winner.

Supercross class
Honda Red Bull Racing riders Andrew Short and Ivan Tedesco
served notice of their speed and consistency early on, taking
third and fifth in their heat race. CRF450R-mounted privateer
Heath Voss also advanced straight to the main with a strong
eighth, as did fellow Honda pilot Paul Carpenter in ninth.

The Heat Race 2 saw Honda Red Bull Racing’s Davi Millsaps ride
his CRF450R to an emphatic third place, with Kevin Windham,
the Pirate of the Coliseum, captaining his Honda Torco Racing
Fuels CRF450R to fifth. Bryan Johnson (eighth) and Antonio Balbi
(ninth) also took their Hondas directly into the main event.

When it came time for the Main, Davi Millsaps used the power
and agility of his CRF450R to nail down fourth place off the line,
but a miscue on the second lap sent him back in the pack. Kevin
Windham, however, was carving through the field and heading
for the front from his eighth-place start, taking fourth by the
second lap and third by lap three. In similar fashion, Honda Red
Bull Racing newcomer Ivan Tedesco and his teammate Andrew
Short advanced to fourth and fifth in the early going, the three
Hondas circulating in a virtual Red Tide of roost.

Up at the front, James Stewart was trading places with Anaheim
1 winner Chad Reed: Reed made Stewart work for every tenth
of a second, but Stewart eventually let him put a couple seconds
on the Australian.

Andrew Short had been hounding Tedesco for fourth in the early
laps, clearly dissatisfied with fifth place: after a few laps of good,
clean, side-by-side racing, he finally edged ahead of Ivan.
Windham cruised just a few bike lengths ahead of the
Short/Tedesco battle, eventually bringing his Honda Torco Racing
Fuels CRF450R home to an impressive podium spot, cementing
his third-place ranking in the season’s points with yet another
inspiring performance. Short’s fourth-place finish at Phoenix put
him in fifth place in season points, with Ivan Tedesco eighth and
Davi Millsaps in ninth.

With his strong finish in Phoenix and the season still young,
Windham was ecstatic to take his first podium of the year.
“The Honda Torco Racing Fuels team had been working hard all
night to get me up here on the podium. I felt like I was close at
Anaheim 1, but I didn’t get it done [when] I went down in the
first corner. - “But I did it here tonight,” continued the veteran.
“I kinda felt like I’d been left out a little bit, I kinda had to get
myself back up here in the limelight. - “It feels good to keep us
old guys up here. I feel...” full story on hondaredriders.com
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