New Orleans Afternoon Report
Saturday, April 14, 2012 | 2:55 PM
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Finally, some good news on the injury front! Andrew Short, Ivan Tedesco and Nick Wey are all back this weekend, which is cool. But then, in a shock to pretty much everyone, Kevin Windham suited up and gave it a shot in practice! He thumb and shoulders were all taped up, and he rode about a lap and a half before realizing it wasn’t going to work. Heck of an effort, though.
Short is pitting out of the Honda Muscle Milk rig but he is not an official part of the team—Wil Hahn is still here riding as the replacement for Trey Canard. Short’s Brooks/McGrath team has different sponsors than the factory team, such as FMF exhausts versus the factory team’s Yoshimura stuff, so his program can’t just get folded into the factory unit.
James Stewart is out, as reported on Thursday, due to a broken hand suffered back in Indianapolis. And Ryan Dungey is still out, which means Stewart’s teammate Davi Millsaps could take over second in the series tonight.
SX Class points leader Ryan Villopoto is also here, of course, healthy and ready to just keep stomping everyone into the ground. He looked plenty fast in untimed practice. In Lites, Justin Barcia can wrap the East Lites Championship tonight, even though one East round remains in Vegas.
The track here looks fairly tricky, especially off the start, which features a wide sweeping corner than the funnels down into a tight on-off-180 degree bowl-turn-on-off section. Starts are of course always key in supercross but it’s especially big here, because if you get a bad start, there’s no chance to make quick moves in such a tight section.
The track also features a few tough rhythm lanes and a deep section of sand whoops, which looks pretty cool. The dirt is pretty hard though, so the real lines are yet to develop. We will have a full practice report once the timed sessions begin later this afternoon.
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good to see some back in the mix, track looks good, lets go racing
bummed for K-DUB
That is totally awesome that KW14 tried to go for it! Thats what the fans and sponsors love.
Don't let me down Short,my left nut is counting on you!
Hmmmmmm.......seems Townly has injured his hip in preparation for his final race in Australia before he comes to the States.
It seems as if the "injury gremlin" has once again taken refuge in his proverbial backpack. Big disappointment for him and the TwoTwo team.
Lets all hope it is not too serious, and that we see Ben at Hangtown!!!!!!!!!!
dungey please return sooooon
Love KW for coming out signing autographs, and suiting up!
If only others got it.
You da man KW, you da man.
Whats the story on Shorts team? everyone who works at Racer X keeps acting like it's been thoroughly reported on, but it hasn't. I've searched this site and others to see what the heck happened there, but I'm coming up empty. Anyone want to shed some actual light on this subject, and not just hint at it?
Sx=boring
Kdub was the only reason to watch ,
Townley with a suspected dislocated hip. Every other mx website is reporting it except this one, which is odd usually racer x is ahead of everyone else. Even if he does make hangtown, there is no way he'll finish the season. Why is everyone acting like he's actually going to challenge poto and dungey, cause he's on reeds bike?
Motohead323 I couldn't agree more! Though I have strong feeling(especially after the fact that hes running out of the MM truck this weekend) that the team has folded. This is to be expected when a first year team picks up a high dollar rider like Short and then does not get a fill in rider when their rider is hurt. If that is true I will be really bummed, I had high hopes for the team and especially for Shorty come outdoors with him being back on a Honda! The big thing I want to know is, why dint the supercross online Honda team at least pick up a fast privateer and give them a bike to fill in for short?
rv by 12 seconds easy. what is the largest win in a supercross main
Why is everyone acting like he's actually going to challenge poto and dungey, cause he's on reeds bike? Because he's Ben fricking Townley, that's why!
Stewart out due to broken whatever, yet sighted at Comp Edge on Metty's bike at the same time Metty was on the track by Ping. Phil Collins said it best: 'It's all a pack of lies!' Ha ha awesome.
Windham- you sir, are the baddest dude ever. I can't think of one other rider would give it a shot- and for good reason.
Hey Jake511, try thinking about RC when it comes to racing and accomplishments. You don't win 150 times and not ride hurt. I like KDub, but many tough dudes like Weinert and others before, raced banged up. Most raced with broken bones but never had insurance to go get confirmed. Just saying...
What's the rumor of JS7 riding a Suzuki? Either bullshit, or big news.
@motohead323 - The only info i've seen re: L&Mc; on racerX is their twitter account, Weig noted that the team lost their main sponsor (supercross.com) and Brooks is going 'old school' and planning to have another sponsor this week and finish up the SX series out of his semi. No update that I saw on the Nationals, but hopefully AS29 will be on a Honda out of somebody's semi! Now with BT101 probably out for the start of the Nationals, hopefully Reed picks up Regal or Short to represent TwoTwo Motorsports.
@jjpharwood, Stewart is under contract to ride for JGR, so they would have to void a contract with Yamaha, and sign one wth Suzuki before the race, not going to happen..
Ben Townley isnt going to touch RV1--he may have kept up with RV when he was 17 years old, he isnt going to touch him now.. RV isnt a kid anymore, he is a man and the fastest in the world. Townley doesnt have a prayer, Dungey does, not Townley. At least Dungey raced RV hard at Steel City and Pala, but for some reason nobody mentions that..
Millsaps getting second place in the series is great, and a bunch of haters said he didnt even deserve a ride..
wat did poto win by?
12 seconds
whos the winner
hamdog69 is the winner
12 seconds
In the shape R.C.s in,it would be ashame for him to ride open prosport. Anyone who was there will tell you,he would not make top 7 in any Regional. Oh,Im sorry
were talking about Supercross-I thought we were talking about competitive sport.
Hats off to Barcia and Tomac in lites. Since neither is an outdoor rider on a 250,what a pairing for Honda 450. Next year if JGR could make a push for either of
those kids they would have something.What could the next Stewart reality show be called?-I dont feel like riding anymore/ cops / my jouney back through amatuers-
"Dash", Come on dude, don't hate on Windham. He has more heart that most of the riders out there. If he could not even make it a lap, he was in major pain!