BT wins again

[Danger]

RV is faster at this race. He is pulling about a second a lap faster than Ben. Lap 14 and its a 20.6 second gap.

[Danger]

Lap 16 the gap is 21.04 and Ben is 30 seconds ahead of 3rd place. I'm guessing the race should be about done.

[Danger]

Yep, all over, RV 1-1 BT 2-2.

[Danger]

Woops, ticked over another lap after an age, Ben 25 seconds adrift of RV.

[Danger]

Well Ben lost points this week. He is gonna need to find some more speed some where. This American kid is fast! Bens fastest time was almost 2 seconds slower than RV's.

[denill]

Date: 17 June 2007

Press release:

Townley second in Budds Creek.

A sell-out crowd in Budds Creek, Maryland has seen New Zealand’s Ben Townley, post two consistent second place finishes at the fourth round of the AMA Toyota Motocross series.

Townley qualified second to fellow Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/ Kawasaki team-mate in the Sunday morning timed sessions and rolled onto the newly positioned Budds Creek starting gate ready for moto 1. With Villopoto getting a better start out front, Townley took a few laps to get past Josh Grant before going after Villopoto. Both Kawasaki riders left the rest of pack in the distance however Townley could not reel in Villopoto and had to be content with second place.

The Motocross Lites riders would have to deal with a slicker Budds Creek circuit in moto 2 as organizers flattened some sections, adding water to keep the dust down in the sweltering Maryland heat. Townley got ousted from the hole-shot by Villopoto, setting up the two Monster Energy/ Pro Circuit/ Kawasaki’s for a potential ding dong battle. Villopoto quickly came to terms with the slippery track while Townley lost traction and time to his younger counterpart. A carbon copy of moto 1 would see Villopoto taking honors over Townley.

“Ryan rode great today and I can’t take anything away from him. He had two good starts and rode away from us. Full credit to him - I’ve got some work to do for sure. The track was quite slick under the dirt and I was having trouble getting traction in a few places and couldn’t seem to make it work. This has been a good opportunity to race this track before MX of Nations in September.” commented a somewhat disappointed Townley.


Townley heads to REDBUD, Buchanan Michigan for round 5 of 12 next weekend.

Race results:

Motocross Lites:

Pos. Pts. Moto 1 Moto 2 No. Rider name Bike

1 50 25 (1) 25 (1) 1 R. Villopoto Kawasaki KX250F

2 44 22 (2) 22 (2) 101 B. Townley Kawasaki KX250F

3 40 20 (3) 20 (3) 338 J. Lawrence Yamaha YZ250F

4 34 16 (5) 18 (4) 62 R. Dungey Suzuki RM-Z250

5 34 18 (4) 16 (5) 24 J. Grant Honda CRF250R

6 27 12 (9) 15 (6) 58 J. Hill Yamaha YZ250F

7 23 15 (6) 8 (13) 73 J. Weimer Honda CRF250R

8 22 10 (11) 12 (9) 75 B. Tickle Yamaha YZ250F

9 21 8 (13) 13 (8) 141 S. Boniface Kawasaki KX250F

10 20 11 (10) 9 (12) 54 R. Kiniry Kawasaki KX250F

11 19 5 (16) 14 (7) 102 C. Gosselaar Kawasaki KX250F

12 18 13 (8) 5 (16) 33 M. Goerke Yamaha YZ250F

13 18 14 (7) 4 (17) 30 A. Mcfarlane Suzuki RM-Z250

14 16 6 (15) 10 (11) 48 K. Chisholm Kawasaki KX250F

15 11 0 (24) 11 (10) 630 M. Lemoine Yamaha YZ25


Motocross Lites championship standings:

1 188 R. Villopoto

2 174 B. Townley

3 150 R. Dungey

4 146 J. Grant

5 141 J. Lawrence

6 90 J. Hill

7 80 B. Tickle

8 78 J. Weimer

9 74 T. Hahn

10 64 M. Goerke

11 60 K. Chisholm

12 53 A. Mcfarlane

13 52 R. Kiniry

14 44 B. Laninovich

15 43 D. Klatt

[arj127]

for Ben. He will bounce back. Villopoto allready knows the tracks and has a good advantage there. You can almost guarantee that Ben will clean up at the sand tracks.

[telliman]

at least he's staying healthy, he dosnt need to win every race, the seasons only just started,he;s still got the upperhand on vp,keeping healthys the key, pressures on villipoto i say.

[FlangMasterJ]

Villopoto definately had the upper hand at Budd's. He's probebly ridden that track 100 times.

Budd's Gallery 1:

http://stevebruhn.com/News07/MX04/index.htm

Budd's Gallery 2:

http://stevebruhn.com/News07/MX04/QL.htm

Some great banners supporting Ben over there.

[snarldom]

first round due to air on sky sport 2 , 16 July, lites at 9pm, followed by motocross class at 10pm, about bloody time!!

[Teava]

YESSSSSSSSS so happy right now
if only sky got the SPEED channel all of our motorbike viewing needs would
be granted.
maybe we should ring sky and request it, is it possible that they would do that?
I mean i rather pay $13 just for the speed channel than for all 3 sports channel!!

[Motoworld Powersports]

Who needs Sky when you can go to motocross.com get live coverage for free. You will need jetstream.

[Danger]

Who needs Sky when you can go to motocross.com get live coverage for free. You will need jetstream.

Ha ha not exactly free then is it? Good for those with jetstream though.

[paturoa]

Red Bud Track & Trail, Buchanan Michigan.

[snarldom]

Looks like Bt might be out sick this race, missed most of saturday practice and they aren't sure of sunday raceday. Rumour is its his appendix!! bugger!