Supercross

AURORA, Ill. (February 15, 2006) – Suzuki’s Ricky Carmichael led 18 of the 20 laps in Saturday night’s Amp’d Mobile World Supercross GP/Amp’d Mobile AMA Supercross Series main event at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium before Kawasaki ace James Stewart passed him and rode off to his third AMA Supercross win of the season. This weekend, Carmichael, of Tallahassee, Fla., makes the commute to St. Louis’ Edward Jones Dome to even the score at the stadium where he is tied at three win with seven-time supercross champion Jeremy McGrath. Watch the race unfold on CBS Sports Sunday, February 19 at 12:30 p.m. EST.

DANIEL REARDON is the toast of Adelaide as he led a rare Open/Lites cleansweep for Kawasaki at the opening round of SUPERCROSS MASTERS at Wayville Showground, Saturday night.

The 20-year-old Queensland slammed down his first-ever Supercross Open victory -- it was his first appearance in the Open division -- and joined Lites class winner MITCHELL HOAD in the Kawasaki celebrations.

Reardon, who is not defending his 2005 Lites crown, now finds himself ahead of all the major contenders in the Open division which again incorporates the AUSTRALIAN SUPERCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP.

Reardon took top spot on the podium with a strong-finishing victory in moto 3 of the Opens... relegating Motorex KTM's TIMMY WEIGAND who took a perfect score through the first two moto finals only to encounter disaster in his third ride of the night.

Short wins second AMA Supercross Lites main event of the season

SAN DIEGO (February 11, 2006) – Kawasaki’s James Stewart, of Haines City, Fla., wins a thrilling Amp’d Mobile World Supercross GP/Amp’d Mobile AMA Supercross Series main event tonight at Qualcomm Stadium before a near-capacity crowd of 69,005. Honda’s Andrew Short, of Murrieta, Calif., was the Western Region AMA Supercross Lites winner.

Suzuki’s Ricky Carmichael, of Tallahassee, Fla., grabbed the Progressive Direct Holeshot Award to start the 20-lap feature, with Stewart settling in behind him to set up a two-rider battle at the front. Carmichael held the slightest of leads the entire race as Stewart patiently waited just a few bike lengths back. Stewart finally made his move on the second to last lap with an inside pass on Carmichael in a 180-degree turn after the first triple jump. Stewart held off Carmichael’s last lap charge to pick up the win, his fifth of the season. Carmichael was second and Yamaha’s Chad Reed, of Dade City, Fla., finished third.

AURORA, Ill. (February 9, 2006) – Amp’d Mobile World Supercross GP/Amp’d Mobile AMA Supercross Series continues to push the outer limits of media-driven exposure and today announced that the widely popular Supercross LIVE! webcast will now be available via podcast on www.sxlivepodcast.com.

The Supercross LIVE! podcast powered by EXOST will allow supercross fans around the world the opportunity to download the popular webcasts for free to most Mp3 players from the internet using podcasting technology. To gain access to the podcast, listeners can set up their iPod or other Mp3 players to detect the Supercross LIVE! podcast and download it to your machine and/or portable device.

AURORA, Ill. (February 8, 2006) – After completing its seventh race of the 2005-2006 season at Anaheim, California’s Angel Stadium, Amp’d Mobile World Supercross GP/Amp’d Mobile AMA Supercross Series has been watched by more fans this season than ever before in the sport’s history, garnering impressive consistent television ratings on both CBS Sports and SPEED.

Amp’d Mobile Supercross has put together back to back weekend ratings of 1.5 and 1.3 on CBS Sports for the Anaheim 2 and San Francisco telecasts. Combining the very consistent and strong numbers on the CBS Sports network television package, along with the strong numbers with the cable package on SPEED, supercross television viewership is at an all time high. To date, SPEED has put together an impressive .47 GAA (gross average audience) per event for households, compared to .36 GAA per event for households on ESPN2 last season.

PICKERINGTON, Ohio (February 8, 2006) – The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) and AMA Pro Racing, its professional-competition subsidiary, thank P.J. Harvey for his years of dedicated service as Chairman of the AMA Pro Racing Board of Directors. Harvey announced this week that he would not seek re-election when his term expires later this month.

“Under P.J.’s leadership, AMA Pro Racing reinforced its place as one of the world’s preeminent sanctioning bodies for professional motorsports,

PICKERINGTON, Ohio (February 8, 2006) – Yamaha’s Chad Reed will be going for a rare four-peat in the San Diego Supercross this Saturday, Feb. 11 at Qualcomm Stadium. Reed has yet to score a victory in the first five rounds of this year’s Amp’d Mobile AMA Supercross Series, but last year used his San Diego Supercross victory to launch a strong second half of the season charge that saw him make a serious bid for the championship. Reed, a 24-year-old Australian, came up just short of catching Ricky Carmichael, but this time around he hopes to win back the AMA Supercross title he last held in 2004.

AURORA, Ill. (February 8, 2006) – Amp’d Mobile World Supercross GP/Amp’d Mobile AMA Supercross Series returns to San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium this Saturday, February 11.

* This is the 23rd time the gate will drop at San Diego.
* First race held October 25, 1980, Mike Bell won on a Yamaha.
* David Vuillemin is the only first time winner at San Diego (2000).
* Suzuki has won at 16 different venues all across the country since ’74, but they have never won in San Diego.
* With Carmichael’s win last week he now has 8 wins at Anaheim. That ties McGrath’s record.

After all three Unbound Energy/Moto XXX Supercross riders struggled off and on through the first rounds of the AMA Supercross series, the team got things stabilized and headed in the right direction at the 3rd and final Anaheim race last weekend.

Timmy Ferry led the way with a great performance Saturday night. Due to the aforementioned struggles, he found himself having to qualify into the night show for the first time in many years. That proved to be a simple task, and he came out blazing in his heat race. He just missed qualifying there, but had no problem doing so in the semi final. He got a mid-pack start in the main event, but bobbled in a rhythm section on the first lap, letting several riders pass. Faced with the challenge of working his way up from the back, “Red Dog

Seven-Time Supercross Champion McGrath Lines up for Final Race of Season

AURORA, Ill. (February 7, 2006) – Suzuki’s Ricky Carmichael put himself in an enviable position Saturday night when he collected his third Amp’d Mobile World Supercross GP/Amp’d Mobile AMA Supercross Series win of the season and extended his points lead from two to 13 over Yamaha’s Chad Reed. This Saturday night, racing returns to San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium for the 23rd year and seven-time supercross champion Jeremy McGrath McGrath will race his final race of the 2005-’06 season.

MEDIA DAY: TEAM HONDA’S JEREMY McGRATH WILL BE ON HAND TO DO INTERVIEWS THURSDAY FROM NOON-2.