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TEDESCO 6TH AT STEEL CITY
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TEDESCO 6TH AT STEEL CITY
August 28, 2007
Team Suzuki Press Office - August 28, 2007.
Team Makita Suzuki Racing's Ivan Tedesco carded one of his best finishes
of the 2007
AMA Toyota Motocross Championship season on Sunday afternoon by picking
up
sixth-place overall at Pennsylvania's Steel City Raceway.
Tedesco rode his Makita Suzuki RM-Z450 to sixth place in the first
30-minute moto
and to fifth place in the second moto.
Makita Suzuki team mate Ricky Carmichael did not race at Steel City
because he is
running an abbreviated race schedule for 2007.
Ivan Tedesco:
"It was a little bit muddy this weekend, which isn't my favourite
condition. In the
first moto I didn't get the greatest start but I made some passes and
got myself
into sixth place. I pretty much rode by myself in that moto, though at
the end I was
catching up to Andrew Short but couldn't quite get him. By the second
moto, the
track was pretty good and I got a little bit better start and made my
passes a
little bit quicker. It was kind of the same as in the first moto - I
rode by myself
for a while and started to catch Short but couldn't quite get him. But I
rode a lot
better in the second moto and I felt like my pace was right there with
the leaders.
I just need to get a little bit better start to get up there and race
with them. We
made some tyre changes before the second moto and I was way more
comfortable, I felt
like I could charge a lot harder and the Makita Suzuki RM-Z450 was
really good."
In the Motocross Lites class, Team Makita Suzuki Racing's Nico Izzi
followed up last
week's 10th-place Pro debut with an even more impressive performance.
The
17-year-old rider raced his Makita Suzuki RM-Z250 to two seventh-place
moto finishes
for a fifth place overall result.
Makita Suzuki team mate Ryan Dungey broke his collarbone during Saturday
practice
and did not race. More information on Dungey will be forthcoming as soon
as it is
available.
Nico Izzi:
"Practice was all right, but it was a mud-fest so I just wanted to go
out there and
put in a pretty good time and make sure I was somewhere in the top 10. I
was 15th
and I would have liked to be a little bit better but I knew the track
would come
around. My starts have been horrible and in the first moto I came out
around 20th
and worked my way to fifth but got passed and finished seventh. So I was
really
happy with that. My goal was to come here and get top-eight and in the
second moto,
I got a little bit better start and got seventh again for fifth overall.
So I'm
super-pumped. The Makita Suzuki RM-Z250 is awesome and I can't say
enough about the
team. I'm looking forward to a lot of years with them."
Team Makita Suzuki Racing will race next at Freestone County Raceway in
Wortham,
Texas on September 1-2.
AMA Toyota Motocross Top 10 Finishers:
1. Grant Langston (Yamaha)
2. Mike Alessi (KTM)
3. Kevin Windham (Honda)
4. Andrew Short (Honda)
5. Tim Ferry (Kawasaki)
6. Ivan Tedesco (Makita Suzuki)
7. Gavin Gracyk (Honda)
8. Michael Byrne (Rockstar Suzuki)
9. Yoshitaka Atsuta (Honda)
10. Josh Summey (Honda)
AMA Toyota Motocross Lites Top 10 Finishers:
1. Ryan Villopoto (Kawasaki)
2. Ben Townley (Kawasaki)
3. Brett Metcalfe (Kawasaki)
4. Austin Stroupe (Kawasaki)
5. Nico Izzi (Makita Suzuki)
6. Josh Grant (Honda)
7. Martin Davalos (KTM)
8. Broc Hepler (Yamaha)
9. Jake Weimer (Honda)
10. Trey Canard (Honda)
Championship Points:http://www.suzuki-racing.com/championship_points.aspx?SRS_ID=2
For more stories about Ivan Tedesco, click here.For photos, click here
For more stories about Nico Izzi, click here.For photos, click here
Team Makita Suzuki Racing's Ivan Tedesco carded one of his best finishes
of the 2007
AMA Toyota Motocross Championship season on Sunday afternoon by picking
up
sixth-place overall at Pennsylvania's Steel City Raceway.
Ricky Carmichael ended his AMA Motocross Championship career by notching
his 150th
career victory at Sunday's ninth round at Spring Creek Motocross Park in
Millville,
Minnesota.
Team Makita Suzuki Racing has signed former amateur champion Mike Alessi
to race the
all-new Makita Suzuki RM-Z450 in the AMA Supercross and AMA Motocross
series
beginning in 2008.
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