Seeping Matter

At round four of this year’s Supercross season, James Stewart was really upset that so many people were dissing on him for making such a big deal out of his sore wrist.  So much so that he dropped out of the series and had surgery on it just to save face.  Oh, the avarice!

So without Stewart and Reed in the series anymore, this makes it a wide open championship chase.

Despite my disappointment that Reed is out, this should make for a really outstanding series.  Awesome!

This also means that Ryan Dungey and Kevin Windham suddenly realized that, instead of just going out there and racing for fun, they now have a good chance to win the championship.  So of course this means that they had to tighten up and not race well.

If I had one Supercross-related wish, it would be for Kevin Windham to find his 2004-season speed and win a Supercross title.  Or if not, then Ryan Dungey can take it.  But both seem to race better when they aren’t feeling the pressure.  And it was more of the same in San Francisco; Dungey crashed while leading the main event and ended up fourth, and I think K-Dub ended up like 11th (!).

Dungey’s crash left it open for someone else to win, and Ryan Villopoto stepped up to take the victory, finally showing the speed we’ve been waiting for all year.  Josh Hill and Andrew Short rounded out the podium.  See what I mean?  We could have different winners every week!

In Lites, Jake Weimer lost his first race of the season when Trey Canard took the Lites main event win by not crashing.  Trey seems like a nice guy, but I just don’t think his podium speeches are sincere.

But the award for the all-time lamest podium speech now goes to Villopoto, who quite openly and stupidly promoted a jar of Mandingo Pickles.  Dude, please do not do this again.