Sign of the (Lap) Times: San Diego

February 12, 2008 12:43pm

The blue streak continue as both San Manuel Yamaha’s Chad Reed and Boost Mobile/Yamaha of Troy’s Jason Lawrence recorded the fastest lap times in their respective class en route to the third consecutive Yamaha sweep. Believe it or not, after practice Lawrence actually had a faster time than Reed, but in the main events it was Chad Reed’s 49.568 being the fastest inside Qualcomm Stadium. Lawrence topped the Lites class with a 50.454.

AMA Supercross

Finish	Best Lap Time	Rider	Bike
1	49.568	Chad Reed	Yamaha
2	49.846	Tim Ferry	Kawasaki
3	49.858	Davi Millsaps	Honda
5	50.040	Kevin Windham	Honda
4	50.302	Andrew Short	Honda
6	50.507	Josh Hill	Yamaha
7	51.005	David Vuillemin	Suzuki
8	51.365	Nathan Ramsey	Yamaha
15	51.907	Jeff Alessi	Honda
9	52.118	Nick Wey	KTM
10	52.261	Jason Thomas	Honda
11	52.294	Troy Adams	Honda
18	52.442	Josh Hansen	Yamaha
13	52.485	Paul Carpenter	Honda
14	52.560	Travis Preston	Kawasaki
12	52.699	Kevin Johnson	Yamaha
17	53.002	Jacob Marsack	Honda
16	53.213	Eric Sorby	Honda
19	55.179	Greg Crater	Honda

Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Tim Ferry stepped up in his farewell to SX in California for 2008, as his fastest lap time was less than a half second slower than Reed. Honda Red Bull Racing’s Davi Millsaps was third, followed by Torco Racing Fuels Honda’s Kevin Windham and Andrew Short. Props to both David Vuillemin and Jeff Alessi, the latter having the ninth-fastest lap time on his Bad Boy Energy Drink Honda in his first race back.

Millsaps (118) gave Reed all he could handle in the main event.

But let’s the AMA’s transponder scoring to break down the individual lap times of both Reed and Millsaps. Let’s start with Millsaps:

Lap #	Lap time
2	0:50.632
3	0:49.893
4	0:49.568
5	0:49.596
6	0:49.790
7	0:50.494
8	0:50.290
9	0:50.607
10	0:50.372
11	0:50.454
12	0:51.206
13	0:57.312
14	0:50.772
15	0:49.956
16	0:52.005
17	0:51.219
18	0:49.643
19	0:52.291
20	0:52.380

The one lap time that does stand out came on Lap 13, when Chad Reed dropped his YZ450F in the sandy first turn, resulting in a 57.312. Millsaps ran a 51.645 on Lap 13, then dipped into the 50-second range for two laps, looking to put a gap on Reed. Chad then dug down and on Lap 17 when he reassumed the lead from Millsaps with a 51.219. On Lap 18 Reed dropped down to a 49.643—his third-fastest lap time of the main!—gapping Millsaps for his 31st career SX win, and preventing Millsaps from getting his first.

J-Law again led the Lites class.

AMA Supercross Lites

Lawrence led the Lites riders again, but he was closely followed by both Rockstar Makita Suzuki’s Ryan Dungey and Torco Racing Fuels Honda’s Jake Weimer, as all three riders were within a half-second of each other. The second and third-place finishers in the main (Tom Hahn and Bobby Kiniry, had the seventh and eighth fastest lap times. Tommy’s younger brother, Wil, was right behind him with the ninth-fastest time. Take a look at all of the fastest recorded lap times below:

Finish	Best Lap Time	Rider	Bike
1	50.454	Jason Lawrence	Yamaha
6	50.571	Ryan Dungey	Suzuki
17	50.839	Jake Weimer	Honda
7	51.031	Austin Stroupe	Kawasaki
4	51.284	Brett Metcalfe	Kawasaki
5	51.437	Justin Brayton	KTM
3	51.512	Robert Kiniry	Honda
2	51.523	Tom Hahn	Kawasaki
8	51.641	Wil Hahn	Yamaha
11	51.882	Chris Blose	Suzuki
10	51.942	Billy Laninovich	KTM
9	52.166	Michael LaPaglia	Suzuki
12	52.385	Gavin Gracyk	Honda
15	52.486	Michael Willard	Honda
22	52.534	Matthew Lemoine	Yamaha
13	52.682	Zach Osborne	Yamaha
16	52.692	Justin Keeney	Honda
14	53.022	Jeff Northrop	Honda
18	53.397	Michael Blose	Suzuki
20	53.431	Tiger Lacey	Honda
19	55.283	Carlos Gonzalez	KTM
21	55.436	Dan Reardon	Honda