By Davey Coombs and Chase Stallo
Well, January has come and gone with four rounds of Monster Energy Supercross in the books, and you probably know what it looked like: Ryan Dungey.
But we dug into the numbers for the month and found quite a few cool things, and only some of them involve the Dunge.
Here we go!
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At the first three races, the top six positions were held by six different brands, via KTM (Dungey), Husqvarna (Anderson), Kawasaki (Tomac), Yamaha (Reed), Honda (Seely) and Suzuki (Roczen). The streak was finally broken when Marvin Musquin jammed a second KTM in the top six at Oakland.
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Different manufactures represented in the top six of the 450SX series standings after four rounds.
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Cooper Webb’s results in the first four races.
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Dungey's best start ever. The only men to start better through four races are Rick Johnson and Jeremy McGrath, who were undefeated through four races in 1989 (Johnson) and 1994, 1995 and 1996 (McGrath).
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Points scored by James Stewart in January. Hey, at least that’s better than 2015!
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Total race laps run together by Yoshimura Suzuki teammates James Stewart and Blake Baggett. Baggett joined up as Stewart’s teammate in the fall of 2014. These laps include only Oakland’s 450SX main, in two other chances (Anaheim 1 2016, Monster Energy Cup 2015) Stewart was out of the race without recording official main-event laps.
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Straight wins by non-Japanese brands, which has only happened once before, in 1975, when Jimmy Ellis won every round (four) on a Can-Am
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Laps of competition raced in January by Monster Energy Kawasaki's Will Hahn, who had to qualify for the first three mains of the season through the LCQ, and then made it through the semi at Oakland, where he finished all twenty laps for a season-best tenth-place finish in 450SX.
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450 riders with top tens in every round during the month of January. (Dungey, Anderson, Reed, Roczen, Seely, Tomac and Brayton.)
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Different countries represented in 250SX main events throughout the month. (USA, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Sweden and France.)
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Main events for Australian privateer Lawson Bopping. More than Justin Bogle, James Stewart, Blake Baggett, Dean Wilson, Broc Tickle, Weston Peick, and Justin Barcia who have dealt with injuries and suspension.
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Straight wins for Yamalube/Star Racing Yamaha's Cooper Webb dating back to last year before he suffered a mechanical problem while leading Round 4 in Oakland and finished twenty-first.
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Riders remaining within one full race worth of points to series leader Ryan Dungey's 97 total points (out of a possible 100), Chad Reed and Jason Anderson (-22 each) and Ken Roczen (-24). Everyone else is more than a race down to Dungey
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Times the red plate has changed hands after the first event—first from Jason Anderson to Ryan Dungey in the 450 Class at San Diego, and then from Cooper Webb to Joey Savatgy in the 250 Class at Oakland.
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Straight podiums for Red Bull KTM's Ryan Dungey dating back to last year. He is just five behind tying Chad Reed's all-time record of twenty-five straight set from February 22, 2003, through the end of 2004.
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Career podiums for Chad Reed (in 190 career starts)
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Races Weston Peick was suspended for punching Vince Friese at the season opener.
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Times that Weston Peick has crashed back from eighth in the waning moments of a main event. He ended up 14th (A2) and 11th (Oakland).
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Different podium performers in 450SX. (Dungey, Anderson, Reed, Roczen, Seely and Musquin). Surprisingly, the list that doesn't include Eli Tomac who began the season with 4-4-4-7 finishes.
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Different podium performers in 250SX. (Savatgy, Nelson, Webb, Osborne, Nichols, Craig and Smith.)
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Total podium finishes for Aldon Baker riders (out of 12 possible) via Dungey, Anderson and Musquin
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Stewart's crash with Dungey in the 450 SX main at Anaheim 1 and the other in a 250 heat race at Anaheim 2 when the gate "flinched" and several riders hit it.
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Jake Weimer's best finishes so far, first in San Diego with Team Monster Energy/Tedder Racing Kawasaki, then again in Oakland, where he raced in place of the injured Broc Tickle on Soaring Eagle/Jimmy John’s/RCH Suzuki.
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Years that Honda HRC Factory Racing's Trey Canard has been able to start every main event in a Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship, going back to 2011, his first full season in the 450 Class. Canard tried to ride this weekend with a severe cut and several stitches in his hand but could not hold on and decided to sit Oakland out.
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Father-son combo to have each made a 125/Lites/250 SX Class podium: Michael Craig and his son Christian Craig, now with the GEICO Honda team.
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Main event starts for Red Bull KTM's Dean Wilson since 2015. Wilson tore his ACL for the second straight season and will miss the remainder of supercross.
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Current position in 250SX points for the three members (Christian Craig, Jordon Smith and Jimmy Decotis) of GEICO Honda.
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250SX main events made for Fredrik Noren. Prior to the season, Noren had only made one career main event in the 450 Class.
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Riders that have qualified for all four main events in 250SX: Joey Savatgy, Cooper Webb, Zach Osborne, Colt Nichols, Christian Craig, Jordon Smith, Jimmy Decotis, Kyle Peters, Mitchell Oldenburg, Kyle Cunningham, Alex Martin, Hayden Mellross and Chris Alldredge.
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Teams that have placed three riders into one 450SX main event: Red Bull KTM (Anaheim 1 and San Diego 1) and SmarTop/MotoConcepts Racing (A2). The Red Bull KTM riders were Ryan Dungey, Marvin Musquin and Dean Wilson; the SmarTop/MotoConcepts riders were Mike Alessi, Vince Friese and Jeff Alessi.
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Christophe Pourcel's average qualifying position.
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Christophe Pourcel's average finishing position.
Laps led 450s
Ryan Dungey - 56
Cole Seely - 13
Jason Anderson - 7
Davi Millsaps - 3
Justin Brayton - 1
Laps led 250s
Cooper Webb - 24
Jessy Nelson - 10
Christian Craig - 12
Zach Osborne - 6
Jordon Smith - 5
Joey Savatgy - 3
