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2010 San Diego Supercross Results
| | | “This is amazing,” said Millsaps. “Especially to have my whole crew here for this race. They’ve been behind me through all the hard times and they just kept telling me I could win and I was glad to finally get it for them.”
Track conditions played a major role in tonight’s race after off-and-on showers left the Qualcomm Stadium track in less than desirable condition. As usual, the Dirt Wurx crew did an unbelievable job of salvaging the situation, but deep ruts still developed in a few of the corners and the course was treacherously slippery.
Josh Hill claimed his third-straight runner-up finish, taking advantage of a nasty crash by Red Bull Honda’s Andrew Short to move into third and then passing Valli Motorsports Yamaha’s Ivan Tedesco with two laps to go. Hill felt he might have been able to catch Millsaps if he had started his charge a little earlier.
“I was just too tentative at the beginning,” said Hill. “If I could have got going just five laps sooner I might have been able to win it. I’m learning every single weekend and I’m getting faster each time I go out. It’s going to end up being an exciting year.”
Tedesco held on for third, his first podium of the year.
“To get up on the box you gotta push the envelope and I got squirrelly a few times out there,” said Tedesco. “Luckily I didn’t go down and I ended up on the podium. I’m stoked to be up here; it’s definitely better than the last few weeks. Hopefully I can get some momentum off this.”
Josh Hill was second for the third consecutive time on his San Manuel Yamaha.
After three-straight podiums to start the season, series points leader Ryan Dungey finished off the box for the second race in a row. After sliding out in the first turn and then crashing again before the end of the opening lap, the Rockstar Makita Suzuki rider still managed to work his way up into sixth by the end of the race, but saw his 16-point lead in the series standings shrink to just four points over Hill.
Last week’s winner, Ryan Villopoto, also got a bad star t, but was able to salvage fourth on his Monster Energy Kawasaki and sits in third overall, 10 points down from Dungey.
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