It was Raptor Titanium's Ken Roczen who nearly had the holeshot in the first 250 race before the restart but was overtaken by Pro Circuit Kawasaki's Blake Baggett. The duo were followed closely by Rockstar Energy Suzuki and Raptor Titanium's Blake Wharton, Darryn Durham, and Tyler Bowers.
Dominant series leader and Raptor Titanium sponsored rider Justin Barcia did not have the best start and rounded the first turn around 10th place. Out front, Baggett was pushing to stay in the lead, but Roczen seemed to have the edge. On the second lap, the KTM Red Bull USA rider was able to force his way past Baggett just before the finishline. Roczen looked to be on his way to his first win of the season before the race was red flagged due to Star Valli Yamaha and Raptor Titanium sponsored rider Kyle Cunningham crashing badly at the end of the whoop section.
250 East Lites Main Event (Restart)
In a unique move, the race was restarted in the order that riders were in at the drop of the red flag. They began in a staggered formation and were not allow to pass each other until passing an improvised white line. This rule is within the AMA rulebook, but had never been used before in a supercross race until Saturday night. The race was started with the wave of a green flag as opposed to the standard gate drop. The order of the top eight was Roczen, Baggett, Wharton, Durham, Bowers, Bogle, Lemoine, and Barcia.
At the wave of the green flag, Roczen was the only rider with clear track, and soon had the lead. Barcia, who was all the way back in eighth at the restart came alive in the first few laps, passing rider after rider and made his way up to fourth. But out front, Roczen fell on the back side of the double that led onto the start straight, handing the lead to Wharton and bumping Durham and Barcia up to second and third.
As the laps wound down, Barcia was slowly closing in on Durham while Baggett rode in fourth and Bogle made a pass on Bowers to take over fifth. At the finish it was Wharton with his first win since St. Louis in 2009. Durham and Barcia completed the podium with Baggett in fourth. It was also a great ride for Motoconcepts and Raptor Titanium's Jake Canada finished out the top five.
250 Lites East Results
1. B. Wharton SUZ
2. D. Durham KAW
3. J. Barcia HON
4. B. Baggett KAW
5. J. Canada HON
6. J. Bogle HON
7. M. Lemoine KAW
8. T. Bowers KAW
9. L. Smith KTM
10. S. Rife HON
11. A. Pellegrini SUZ
12. K. Peters YAM
13. S. Sewell KTM
14. P. J. Larsen KTM
15. A. Martin HON
16. K. Roczen KTM
17. T. Weeck HON
18. K. Smith KTM
19. B. Ripple HON
20. K. Cunningham
450 Supercross Main Event
It was Motoconcepts and Raptor Titanium's Mike Alessi who took the holeshot followed by Justin Brayton, Brett Metcalfe, and a great start for KTM Red Bull USA and Raptor Titanium's Marvin Musquin. Kevin Windham and Ryan Villopoto sat back in fifth and sixth. Out front, Alessi was riding his best race of the year while Brayton stalked him several laps. Finally on lap five, Brayton was able to make a text book block pass on the number 800 rider. Soon both Metcalfe and Villopoto were able to make their way around Alessi and soon had a battle of their own.
Villopoto tried a few inside outside maneuvers on Metcalfe but at each instance the defending champ was denied. For a few laps the Kawasaki ace hounded Metcalfe before making the pass in the bowl turn just after the whoops. From there, Villopoto went onto his inevitable mission of tracking down Brayton in the lead.
By lap 14, Villopoto had cut his lead down to less than one second and was setting himself up to make the pass which he finally did one lap later in the same place that he passed Metcalfe.
At the finish it was Ryan Villopoto with his sixth win of the season, with Justin Brayton having his best Supercross finish ever in the USA, and Davi Millsaps rounding out the podium. Brett Metcalfe and Cole Seely completed the top five.
Raptor Titanium riders Mike Alessi took an impressive sixth place, with an incredible seventh place for newcomer to the Supercross class Marvin Musquin.
Supercross Results
1. R. Villopoto KAW
2. J. Brayton HON
3. D. Millsaps YAM
4. B. Metcalfe SUZ
5. C. Seely HON
6. M. Alessi SUZ
7. M. Musquin KTM
8. B. Tickle KAW
9. W. Peick KAW
10. N. Izzi YAM
11. J. Grant KAW
12. J. Sipes KAW
13. R. Kiniry YAM
14. M. Goerke SUZ
15. J. Alessi SUZ
16. K. Regal KAW
17. R. Clark KAW
18. K. Windham HON
19. G. Faith HON
20. K. Chisholm KAW
250 Lites East Points
J. Barcia 120
D Durham 98
B. Wharton 97
B. Baggett 80
K. Roczen 80
Jake Canada 72
Justin Bogle 61
K. Cunningham 43
M. Stewart 42
P. J. Larsen 38
A. Martin 35
M. Lemoine 34
L. Smith 34
C. Thompson 32
H. Hewitt 31
S Sewell 28
T. Bowers 21
L. Vincent 21
P. Nicoletti 19
S. Rife 17
Supercross Points
Ryan Villopoto 246
Ryan Dungey 192
James Stewart 177
Davi Millsaps 151
Kevin Windham 146
Justin Brayton 143
Brett Metcalfe 142
Jake Weimer 134
Chad Reed 128
Mike Alessi 128
Broc Tickle 95
Kyle Chisholm 92
Josh Hansen 87
Nick Wey 76
Andrew Short 59
Matt Goerke 45
Marvin Musquin 44
Bobby Kiniry 40
Weston Peick 39
Cole Seely 37
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