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Cycle News 2013 Issue 05 Feb 5

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VOL. 50 ISSUE 5 FEBRUARY 5, 2013 P37 PIONSHIP Briefly... DUNGEY, ROCZEN AND KTM CLEAN UP AT ANAHEIM III ORANGE SWEEP Ryan Dungey is the fourth different rider to win this year. STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT PALMER I t was a roller-coaster ride for the Orange team at Anaheim III in round five of the Monster Energy Supercross Series, but when all was said and done the Red Bull KTM crew could not have asked for a better ending to what was an exciting and entertaining night of racing. KTM came away with a big sweep, winning both the 250 and 450 mains in front of 41,294 fans, and for the second week in a row they also had two KTMs in the top 15 in the 450 class. Heck, they even took a win - but mostly a crowd-approving win - in the KTM Junior Cycle Challenge race that returned after a five-year hiatus. Ryan Dungey and Ken Roczen had a big hand in KTM's success on this night, with Roczen getting it started with his second victory in a row in the 250 main, and Dungey capping it all off with a solid win, his first of the year, in the 450 main. After getting off to a fast start in the 250 final and with his chief rival Eli Tomac a non-factor after getting off to a midpack start - Roczen pretty much breezed to an uneventful win. The same, however, could not be said when it came to Dungey's he- Honda Muscle Milk's Justin Barcia was still upbeat and positive going into A3 after suffering two hard get-offs at the previous two races. He said that he felt pretty good physically coming into the race, but still might not have been 100-percent. "My body has been pretty fine, but the scary thing is that I did hit my head two times in both those crashes," Barcia said. "I didn't ride during those two weeks; I raced on the weekend only. It's tough to do that - it's not easy. You feel tight, get arm pump, but I did feel real good tonight and had a great time. But, for sure, it's been a rough two weeks - two DNFs - so it feels real good to come out here tonight and put in some good racing. Second in the heat race and third in the main is not a half-bad night at all. I felt good, had fun, and tried to give those guys as good a race as I could. The plan tonight was just to go into the race and put in 20 solid laps. When I got behind those guys I was just waiting for a mistake, and if a mistake didn't come, I probably wouldn't have been on the podium tonight. But I wasn't going to push the envelope tonight, I didn't want to crash." Eli Tomac was another rider coming into the race a little sore after crashing out of last week's 250 main. "I'm glad to be here racing here this weekend for how it [the crash] looked on TV - it looked pretty bad," he said. "My knee's a tiny bit sore. I mean, it's fine when I ride, but when you touch it, it's a little bit sore still. It will get better." Yoshimura Suzuki's James Stewart was disappointed for not getcontinued on next page

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