The Torco Racing Fuels/AMSOIL/Honda supercross team made history at perhaps the muddiest, sloppiest race ever held, as team riders Kevin Windham and Trey Canard swept both classes, helping the team to become the first-ever non-factory team to sweep both classes in one night.
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The Daytona Supercross is already known as the most demanding supercross of the season, and with heavy rains, it was turned from demanding to ridiculous. Windham got a decent start in the main event, fought through 
some mud, and then found himself in second by the end of the first lap, trailing points leader Chad Reed. Reed led the majority of the race, even though the inevitable mistakes under the conditions led to the lead swapping more than a couple of times.
Windham was forced to stop for new goggles a few laps in, temporarily giving second to Davi Millsaps. Windham regained the spot and on the last lap, just three turns from the finish, Reed’s Yamaha gave out and Windham splashed his way by to take the victory.
"Daytona is a unique race. Just by the nature of the track, it is by far the most bruta
l supercross that we run,” Windham said. “Tonight was definitely a race of different elements with the rain and whatnot, but it still lived up to the brutal Daytona deal. I think it was the most brutal race I have been in in my entire life. I think the scorers lost track of who was leading, because I was in the back corner and the flames above the finish line went off. I was thinking Chad just won the Daytona Supercross. In the matter of one straightaway, it was the biggest emotional roller coaster I’ve ever been on in my entire life. I went from thinking I could salvage a second here, still have a couple turns to go, then, ‘Man, I’m going to win the Daytona Supercross.’ It was an emotional roller coaster for me. It was just an incredible race.”
Reed, Windham’s championship rival, was credited with sixth, but then penalized for cutting the track during the race, dropping him to seventh. As it turned out, even if his bike would’ve run to the finish, Windham would’ve won the race by virtue of Reed’s penalty.
Windham now sits only 23 points behind Reed in the championship with seven rounds left to run.
In the Lites main event, it looked as if AMSOIL rider Josh Grant was going to come away with the holeshot, but he was forced wide in the first turn. Canard snuck around the inside of the turn and came away with the lead.
Canard went on to lead every lap, falling only once on his way to a near perfect race considering the conditions.
“Coming into that race, I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I just 
wanted to go out there and do the best that I could,” Canard said. “I did everything I could possibly do during the week, and I think I was as prepared as I could possibly be, so I could give it everything I had, every lap out there.”
Grant’s bad luck continued. After he got forced wide in the first turn, he ended up cross-rutting off of a jump and got buried in a drainage ditch. Grant ended up 19th.
With his win, Canard now maintains a perfect record on the season, winning every heat and main event he has competed in thus far. He has a 24-point lead in the Lites Eastern Regional Championship with four rounds left to run.
From here, the team heads to Minneapolis and the domed Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome for the fourth round of the Lites Eastern Region championship and round 11 of the AMA Supercross Series.
Windham, Canard and Grant will also be signing autographs at the AMSOIL Sandbox Arena in New Richmond, Wis. on Friday, March 14 (see below).
Until then, we'll see you at the races.
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