Team AMSOIL rider Kevin Windham continued to set his groove toward the 2008 championship, as he started well and grabbed his second podium in a row while simultaneously moving up into second in the points championship in the 450cc class.
“I was pretty happy with my start,” Windham said. “I started in the same gate both times. It wasn’t the best gate, but it was consistent. I think the testing that we did this week really paid off in how things came together for me. I was a work in progress today. I was eighth fastest in practice. It’s the same thing every weekend, because I don’t practice that strong, but it’s something about not having to go fast, not having the gate drop, not having the fans in the stands... I was eighth fastest, and I was like, ‘Man, what's going on?’ But the good news is that I was only a second off of second. Once the lights came on, I won my heat and really put it together in the main. I wish I could’ve caught Hill, but two weeks in a row and two podiums, I’m fired up about that. Hopefully I can keep finding the podium.”
In the Lites class, Dan Reardon continued to show his consistency. On a track that he said was similar to tracks he’s used to back home in Australia, Reardon came from near the tail end of the
top 10 to finish inside the top five. “My reaction time off the start was really good, but I kind of overcooked it a little bit going into the first corner,” Reardon said of his start. “I didn’t get hung up on a Tuff Block, but I was on the verge of riding the Tuff Blocks, so I shut it down off the first jump. I was floating around I think in like eighth or ninth on the first lap. Then things started going good and I started picking people off as I went. Fourth place is okay. It’s not a podium, but it’s still points on the board, and there are still a lot of races to go.”
Fourth place was good enough to move Reardon into third in the points championship with five rounds left to run.
After his win last week in Phoenix, Jake Weimer had a bit of a tough go atAnaheim II, with a fall, a stall, and other issues. He recovered for 15th place despite the lack of a front brake and sits ninth in the points with five rounds left to go.From here, the AMSOIL team heads to San Francisco's AT&T Park for round four of the AMA Supercross Series on January 26.
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