Wilson stalked early leader GEICO Honda’s Justin Barcia for the early parts of the race before making the pass on lap eight and immediately pulling out a decent size lead on the points leader. This all took place after holeshot winner Blake Wharton and fastest qualifier Ryan Sipes came together in the left hander after the sand and the loser was Sipes as he went off the track and crashed onto the pavement.
Sipes was forced to come from dead last and eventually worked his way up to an impressive fifth place but the night would belong to Scottish/part-Canadian Wilson as he gained three valuable points on Barcia in the championship standings. In a lonely race, Wharton raced to a third and JDR KTM’s PJ Larsen took fourth in a season high placing.
In the 450 main event, it was the last man to get into the main event, Kawasaki’s Fabien Izroid who pulled the holeshot from the outside. Just behind him was Dungey, San Manuel Yamaha’s James Stewart and Team Two-Two’s Chad Reed. Stewart had some problems in the second turn and fell back a ways while Dungey quickly grabbed the lead from Izroid.
Points leader Ryan Villopoto didn’t get a great start at all and was coming through the pack when he collided with Stewart and both riders went down. It was a crazy main event from there! Stewart would eventually work his way up to fourth but RV had to pull in for some mid-race repairs on the machine. He wound up in ninth.
Meanwhile up front, Reed hounded Dungey and used Ryan’s troubles with lappers to pull right up on the defending champion but he wasn’t able to get close enough to make the pass despite at one point Dungey flying off the track.
Near the end of the race, Reed made a couple of mistakes and that was all the breathing room that Dungey needed to win his first main event of the year in a great race. It was Dungey, Reed and in third was Trey Canard who rode right behind the top two most of the night.
The win put Reed into the points lead by three over RV with Dungey right behind. Stay tuned to Racer X for a full race report later.
250 Main Event
1- Dean Wilson
2-Justin Barcia
3- Blake Wharton
4- PJ Larsen
5- Ryan Sipes
6- Blake Baggett
7- Gannon Audette
8- Hunter Hewitt
9- Darryn Durham
10- Matt Lemoine
11- Justin Sipes
12- Les Smith
13- AJ Catanzaro
14- Alex Martin
15- Lance Vincent
16- Ricky Renner
17- Taylor Futrell
18- Brad Ripple
19- Malcolm Stewart
20- Jason Anderson
450 Main Event
1- Ryan Dungey
2- Chad Reed
3- Trey Canard
4- James Stewart
5- Justin Brayton
6- Nick Wey
7- Andrew Short
8- Kevin Windham
9- Ryan Villopoto
10- Cole Seely
11- Davi Millsaps
12- Weston Peick
13- Fabien Izoird
14- Michael Byrne
15- Tye Simmonds
16- Matt Boni
17- Chris Blose
18- Ivan Tedesco
19- Austin Stroupe
20- Mike Alessi
