Sign of the (Lap) Times: San Francisco

February 2, 2010, 12:07pm

For this week's Motion Pro Sign of the (Lap) Times, we take a closer look at the San Francisco round of Monster Energy Supercross.

Lites Class

Lap Rank	Finish	Best Lap	In Lap	Rider
1	1	52.875	4	Trey Canard
2	2	53.182	3	Jake Weimer
3	3	53.625	3	Broc Tickle
4	4	53.964	10	Wil Hahn
5	5	54.395	3	Cole Seely
6	7	54.756	5	Josh Hansen
7	9	54.762	3	Jeff Alessi
8	13	54.915	3	Blake Wharton
9	8	54.944	5	Max Anstie
10	18	55.191	3	Chris Gosselaar
11	6	55.253	3	Travis Baker
12	14	55.555	3	Ryan Clark
13	10	55.592	3	Phil Nicoletti
14	12	55.838	10	Jake Canada
15	11	55.854	7	Eric McCrummen
16	15	56.335	5	Antonio Balbi
17	17	56.719	7	Hunter Hewitt
18	16	56.848	6	Daniel Hendrix
19	20	57.192	4	Jason Potter
20	19	57.202	3	Joshua Clark

No surprise here, the main event winner, Trey Canard, logged the fastest 250 lap of the night on his GEICO Powersports Honda. What’s also interesting is that the top five riders in the results column also had the five fastest laps, in the same order then finished.

Things get a little more interesting behind that, as Canard’s teammate Blake Wharton went down in the first turn and could only muster 13th, despite the eighth-fastest time (and he logged that lap while running in traffic most of the night).

You can tell a lot about the San Francisco dirt by watching the lap times. Nearly every rider logged their best lap early in the main, half of the field putting in their best time on lap three, for example. No doubt the soft dirt, which had taken on a lot of rain during the week, contributed to that. Credit Wil Hahn, who stood 12th on the first lap but rallied to fourth, logging his best time on lap 10.

Supercross Class

Lap Rank	Finish	Best Lap	In Lap	Rider
1	1	52.599	3	Ryan Villopoto
2	4	53.137	4	Ryan Dungey
3	2	53.204	3	Josh Hill
4	3	53.226	3	Davi Millsaps
5	5	53.989	3	Andrew Short
6	7	54.443	3	Ivan Tedesco
7	11	54.676	3	Kevin Windham
8	6	55.040	4	Justin Brayton
9	12	55.078	4	Kyle Chisholm
10	9	55.194	4	Tommy Hahn
11	10	55.213	6	Michael Byrne
12	8	55.310	8	Nick Wey
13	18	55.811	4	Jesse Casillas
14	15	55.878	6	Fabien Iziord
15	14	55.939	4	Cyrille Coulon
16	13	56.025	6	Jason Thomas
17	19	56.076	9	Jarred Brown
18	16	56.137	4	Chris Blose
19	17	56.380	6	Manuel Rivas
20	20	58.824	2	Kyle Partridge

Race winner Ryan Villopoto put in the fastest lap with a blistering 52.599 on lap three, but it looked like it wouldn’t lead to a win since Ryan Dungey had already checked out with the holeshot. But Dungey crashed on lap 10, (where his lap registered a full 1:00.291), allowing Villopoto to catch him and take the win. Dungey’s 53.137 was second-best of the night.

Notable is GEICO Honda’s Kevin Windham, who had the fastest qualifying time but only the seventh-fastest main event time, and an 11th place finish after a bad start. On the opposite end, new Monster Energy Kawasaki recruit Nick Wey had only the 12th-fastest time, but finished eighth since he started up front.