Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Las Vegas SX Finals and 09 Monster Energy Nationals


There are only 72 hours remaining until the 2009 Monster Energy Supercross Championship will be just another year in the record books. Stewart has a six point lead over Reed, meaning that if Reed wins, Stewart only needs to finish second or third to win the Championship, however if Reed wins and Stewart finishes 4th or worse Reed would become the 2009 Champion. If I was going to make any bets in Vegas I would take lucky number 7 to come out on top in the SX Class. In the Supercross Lites class I have to go with Dungey (Number 10), as he could win his 3rd Toyota Truck in 3 years. Either way, Saturday night’s races could possibly be the best races of the year for three reasons. (1) Its for the Championship in the SX class and bragging rights in the Lites class, Stewart vs. Reed comes down to this weekend and there’s the whole lot of money at stake in bonus checks! I also expect Josh Grant, RV, IT, K-DUB and Shorty to finish the season strong (2) Dungeys last 250F Supercross race probably, and team Pro Circuit has 4 riders all lining up together who all can finish in the top 5, Trey Canard is back as well plus Ill throw in Wil Hahn as a wildcard (3) If Mike Alessi gets the holeshot or jumps out ahead of Stewart you can expect payback from last weekend as team tactics will come into play. Last weekend Kyle Chisholm, Stewart’s teammate was suspended by AMA and FIM for making contact with Reed. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Alessi pull the same type of move on Stewart to help Reed out. Everyone can catch the action on SPEED beginning at 10 pm EST, 7pm PST. Let the fireworks begin!

Switching gears to Canadian Motocross, I want to personally thank all who attended the 2009 Ontario Arenacross Championship as it was a great success for the first year of an AX Series. 2009 is turning out to be a very busy year for not only myself, but for our company MPI. This summer MPI is working on several exciting and interactive activities. Our Sport Management department is working with the CMRC Nationals, The Walton TransCan Grand National Championship and other select races throughout North America. Our Athlete Division is working with Canadian Amateur Motocross rising star Dylan Kaelin, and Women's Pro Series riders Ami Houde and Cassondra Greene as these athletes’s look to make a big splash stepping into the Pro Ranks. Another important date for MPI is the launching of our clothing line which is scheduled for May 7. Final tweaks are being made to our website, once launched there will be huge discounts available, as well as sponsorship opportunities available to select riders.

There’s only 39 days left before the Monster Energy Motocross National Series starts in Kamloops, BC. Now that the sun's shining and warm weather is upon us, hopefully everyone has gotten the chance to get their bikes to a local track and experience arm pump for the first time this season. If your still looking for a new 2009 ride check out http://www.bobsmotorsport.com/ or http://www.hudsonmotorcycles.com/ and they will be sure to set you up with a great deal! MPI has recently teamed together with http://www.motoheaven.net/ if you have not checked this Facebook application out yet, be sure to take a minute and see it for yourself, as you can find tracks all over North America to ride on. Take the time and help this site grow and it will benefit everyone in the motocross community! I want to thank IMX for asking me to write a weekly blog, I am hoping to be able to post my blog up every Wednesday. In closing, I am going to come up with a different trivia question each week and offer some great prizes, this weeks winner will receive a Royal Distributing Gift Card as well as a MPI T-Shirt. The first Southwestern Ontario Amateur National Qualifier is at Gopher Dunes this weekend, so I think its rather fitting this week's trivia question is about Walton TransCan History - "Most people don't know that CMRC's Amateur Racing Director, Brett Lee has won one Canadian Amateur Motocross Championship. This week's question is - What class did Brett win and what year was it in?"

Email your answers to mark@motocrosscanada.ca Best of Luck!
See You Next Week!
Mark

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