Seeping Matter

The Phoenix round of the 2010 AMA Supercross season was certainly pivotal.  Here’s a summary:

• Jake Weimer won 250s again in convincing fashion.  Trey Canard rode like a madman to try to keep up, and then crashed.
• Ryan Morais looked pretty solid as he rode to second place in 250s.
• At the start of his heat, James Stewart jumped from the center of the track to the edge of the track in the first triple, in the middle of the pack, and was landed on by Kyle Partridge who, inexplicably to Stewart, just jumped in a straight line.  Stewart pretended to be very severely hurt in hopes to lure away Chad Reed fans, but we haven’t forgotten that Reed raced the same day he broke his shoulder blade two years ago.  Stewart, you have a long way to come to be the man Reed is.
• In the main event, Reed made a pass on Stewart and had the position when Stewart rode directly into Reed anyway, crashing them both out of contention and breaking Chad Reed’s hand.  More on this later.
• Meanwhile, Ryan Dungey showed that last week was no fluke as he proceeded to win the 450 main event.  It’s true that Reed and Stewart crashed, but it’s likely that Dungey would have won it anyway.

Reed was fined and suspended, presumably for first having the audacity to pass Stewart, and then for pushing Stewart off of the top of his broken hand as he tried to get back up.  Stewart, meanwhile, crashed at least two people out of their respective races by riding like a madman, then stormed across the pits after the race to Reed’s pit and pushed Reed’s bike over.  The AMA said, “Now now, James.  You don’t need to be so mean to your inferiors.”

Yeah, I’ll be talking about this later.