by Chase Stallo
250 Moto 1 Report: Southwick
Saturday, August 27, 2011 | 3:05 PM
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PrintDean Wilson entered round ten of the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship at Southwick with a firm grasp on the points lead after sweeping both motos at Unadilla. But early on it was teammate Tyla Rattray—who was looking to recover from a back breaking 11th at Unadilla—that grabbed the headlines early as he battled with fellow South African Gareth Swanepoel for the top spot.
Local hero Jimmy DeCotis looked primed to impress the hometown fans as he jumped out of the gate behind Swanepoel. But the GEICO Honda rider would go down hard early—and again later in the race—crushing the hopes of everyone across the Northeast.
Rattray and Swanepoel would battle for South African supremacy early as they opened up a big gap over Wilson and company. Rattray would bully his way around Swanepoel at the midway point and looked in position to take the moto one victory. But late in the race Rattray would stall the engine allowing Swanepoel to get back around and take the moto one win—the first of his career and the first by a non-Pro Circuit rider in 2011.
Rattray would hold on to take second with Wilson rounding out the podium. Swanepoel’s teammate Gannon Audette would take home fourth, marking a career best for the rookie. Broc Tickle, Ryan Sipes, Marvin Musquin, Darryn Durham, Blake Baggett and Alex Martin would round out the top-ten.
Other notables:
- Reigning Canadian MX2 champion Tyler Medaglia would take home 12th in his first race of the season.
- Rookie Justin Bogle overcame a terrible start to the race to finish 18th.
- The Eleven 10Mods team continues to impress as both of their riders—Darryn Durham and Alex Martin—finished inside the top-ten.
- Privateer Dalton Carlson was by far the surprise of the moto taking home a 17th place finish.
250 Moto 1 Results
- Swanepoel
- Rattray
- Wilson
- Audette
- Tickle
- Sipes
- Musquin
- Durham
- Baggett
- Martin
- Stewart
- T. Medaglia
- Vincent
- Tomac
- Seely
- J. Medaglia
- Carlson
- Bogle
- Tapia
- Morais
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Congrats to Gareth.
Wilson on cruise control to the title now.
Re MXoN - It is certainly America's to lose but has Baggett run into bad form at the wrong time???
The mx2 at the MXoN is going to be stacked with talent
Great racing and good job to Swanepoel. As he got down to the last couple pf laps I was thinking hopefully he won't throw it away. Its got to be cool to get his first win.
Swanepoel? How could he make it? I remember the guy in the GP's, a nice person, glad he won a moto. Go for the overall
Good race for riders (originally) from Minnesota. Besides Audette and Martin, Dalton Carlson is from there also. At least, I think it's the same one.
@MX Bob: You are correct. Carlson is from Minnesota.
http://www.justin.tv/grosbert#/w/1681399184
NOW to watch 2nd 25 moto live
Good to see someone get a first win....and Dean stopping to congratulate. Wilson seems like he knows what else is going on out there, he also said good job to Bogle @ Unadilla .Countryman Rattray rode right by.
Love that Gareth got his first win. The 250s are so much fun to watch this year. I gotta say that Wilson is turning out to be a class act too. Hard to not like the guy.
But then again, I like Barcia too!!! :)
Oh lordy, not a yankie in sight on the podium. That´s got to hurt real bad. Looks like the only guys the foreigners get to race against is themselves. What happened to, "going to AMA to race trhe best". LOL
Well done Swannie. You´re the man boet.