Doh! J-Law Nearly DQ'd for Fighting in Second Practice

Quick summary:

There was a fight in the second practice between Jason Lawrence and Ryan Villopoto. Both were messing with each other for several laps and just stopped in the track, RV gassed it, wheelied, and his wheel hit J-Law in the face guard.

Lots of tempers were flying, still are.

The end result:

-J-Law, already on probation from San Francisco, (Edited) Not DQ'd, but last gate pic Sunday, and fined $7,500.
-Villopoto, fined $2,500.
-Villopoto's dad and mechanic, both fined.

Sounds like quite a fight!

WW was in the RV writing something, but Cudby has photos which will be out later.

Hangtown News/Pics 1: Saturday Afternoon

Some quick notes from Hangtown Saturday afternoon.

The weekend is engergized with a lot of effort, and more that the videos on Motocross.com and the live announcers. There has been a lot of building and improvement.

Silly season is still wide open. Suzuki is still working the pits for a 450 guy. People aren't saying much. The rumor about Byrne going to Gibb may pre-mature and he is at least considered for a Suzuki spot to replace Tedesco.

Factory Connection has 3 confirmed, Grant, Weimer, and Trey Canard. This leaves one or two spots, just depends.

Joaquim Rodrigues is riding under the KTM tent right now.

With Honda grabbing up Tedesco and Townley both, will they have enough budget left for Windham?












Stewart was fastest in timed practice.













Lamson on the full-on retro CR125, with Lamy-retro gear too.












Villopoto is running the red number 1 plate.















Checking sag on the retro Lamson CR125!


















It sure is cool seeing RC back!













The rider's meeting covered the new format, timed practice and no qualifiers.

Silly Season Shocker - Everyone to Honda (Townley and Tedesco at least)

MX Weekend Window kicks off the 2007 outdoors with some very strong pre-news from silly seasons inner workings:

Townley and Tedesco went with Honda for 2008, giving Honda a 4-man team, the other two being Short and Millsaps.

Suzuki has no one at the moment, and will be tapping some shoulders at Hangtown and making some calls tonight.

The guys halfway through 2-year deals are thinking - doh!

The Byrne to Gibb racing thing is still going strong. No word on what brand unless it's Kawasaki.

Justin Brayton is factory KTM for 2008.

Ferry is returning at Kawasaki for 2 more years.

DNA Energy Drink/BTOSports/BBMX will add a Lites team and will have two identical semi's, same as the current SOBE/No Fear/Samsung setup. They plan 3 main SX class riders in one semi, and 4 SX Lites riders (2 east, 2 west) in one semi. The DNA Energy Drink deal is done, the two teams are for sure. News on riders and additional sponsors to come