Toronto SX Race Report

Mar 14 2010 - 12:22pm - Steve Matthes

Early on in the 450's, Trey Canard once again proved to be no fluke as he led a couple of laps before eventual winner, Ryan Villopoto (2) got by and won his fifth AMA Supercross of the season. With RV's win, he closed the points gap to 17. Canard finished on the podium for the third straight race.

Over 30,000 Canadian SX fans saw GEICO Honda's Justin Barcia capture his first ever 250 sx win when he led wire to wire. Barcia was putting together some crazy sections and was the only guy in the small bike class to jump a couple of things.

Oh Canada! Dean Wilson represented his home country well with a heat race win and a fourth in the main event. Wilson continued his strong rookie year and hopefully soon, a win will come.

450 points leader, Ryan Dungey, finished second and limited the damage to just three lost points. Dungey is not that spectacular but very solid out there.

Early season surprise, Josh Hill, has been banged up in recent weeks and isn't able to practice during the week. In the main, he started strong before fading to sixth. He captured our hearts with his Bubbles 99 jersey he wore in the opening ceremonies. Thanks to Danny Brault for the jersey!

Suzuki's Austin Stroupe has now gone 2-2-2-2 this season but closed up on Christophe Pourcel in the standings.

Pourcel's night took a turn for the worse when he went over the bars in the heat race. He wasn't feeling it after that and got a poor gate pick for the main event. Still, he limited the damage to a third.

Here's your 450 podium. I'd look good in those leather pants I think.

On Friday I took JGR Yamaha's Jeremy Albrecht and Racer X's Jason "Weege" Weigandt to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Here's Weege pointing to the spot where his New Jersey Devils won the cup for the first time. J-Bone seems happy to be there.