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Fans brought phone cameras to Daytona!

"It's Going to Be a Battle"

Daytona is looking better all the time.

After two SX practices Friday afternoon at Daytona, Reed has the fastest time in both, which prompted one of the team folks from his competition to say "It's going to be a battle."

The Dirt Wurx Daytona track is a bit old school in terms of roughness and how loose the ground is - and some said it was a bit one-lined. It was dry in the earlier practices, which let it get loose and deep. If this were an afternoon race, it would get gnarly. It's possible they may smooth it out with some track work - unconfirmed.




Reed posted the fastest lap times in both SX practices. In the first, he fell hard and bruised his forehead a little, when his helmet pressed hard against his forehead when he fell. He was smiling about it and ven joked a little after practice 2.

RC and Stewart are strong and making adjustments for the night show.

In Lites, Dungey was the fastest for both practices. Also fast - Goerke, Lange, Townley, Morias and the Alessis.

What's going to happen tonight with all the top three SX guys wanting to win... They are going to be on the edge and push each other to make mistakes, so the winner will be the one whose mistakes mattered the least. It's going to be a good one.

Track Pics from Daytona

Here's some pics of the Daytona track from Thursday night:

Doug Henry in Good Spirits and Ready to Get to Rehab

Weekend Window is in Daytona for the supercross and stopped by to say hello to Doug Henry, recovering from surgery three days ago due to his injured back.

Doug was a bit tired from a lot of visitors who are in town for bike week. He's anxious to get to rehab and doesn't like lying still in Daytona Beach! He said he expects to be on walking machines as soon as possible to keep his legs working. The plan is to move him to the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, a top pick for his rehab.

The injury is just about where his cage was put in to repair his injury at Budds. It's a little worse this time but Doug is keeping a smiling face, as is his wife Stacy. Right now he hasn't been able to move his legs but they see good chances for recovery, and Doug's positive attitude is his best asset.

St Louis Goes Off

(Hey RC, little gift for ya there, -C&J)

Both mains at St Louis were epic!

In Lites, Townley won his first SX here without being the fastest in the whoops. He had an intense battle with his aggressive teammate Darcy Lange. They traded places and even rubbed a little, then on the last lap Lange goes for it on a triple going into a turn, comes up short, and does a "superman face plant," just a few feet from where Dungey was still kicking his bike. Townley stayed out of trouble and won.

Almost under the radar, Yamaha of Troy's Ryan Morais and Matt Goerke are tied for the points lead! The guys that have been getting all the attention have had good and bad races already.

The rookie Dungey again showed winning speed, but this time things went wrong for him. While in a heated battle with Townley and Lange, Dungey overjumped coming into a turn and his wheel went over a berm. In that same spot later, he would hit a tumbled Tuff Blox and pick up a cover, then he couldn't get started again.

The SX first lap was crazy for Tedesco and Ferry. Tedesco lost the front end in the sand right after the start, tumbled hard, and Ferry falls too. Ferry lands next to Tedesco's bike and his own bike kept going behind him. Both are a little looped out at this point. Ferry gets up, grabs the first bars he sees, and picks up Ivan's bike. He's on a berm at the wrong angle and needs to get around to the other side, so when he got to the rear fender as he walked around, he realized something was wierd. "Hey this is not a Kawasaki fender!" Looked over and saw Ivan on the ground and realized his own bike was somewhere else, so he dropped Ivan's and walked over to his looking at his glove...

Reed was leading the first lap, and near the end of the lap, Stewart had pinned the outside of a right handed uphill 180, when Reed squared it off and went inside. He gassed it hard ad drifted out, right into Stewart, pushing him into a Tuff Blox and he fell back on Reed's bike. He tore a patch off his gear right there.

RC got buy right then, but the lead went to Eric Sorby. That was a big gift for RC since he had a crappy start and was just trying to make up for it. RC took a couple laps to take over and he just had to stay ahead far enough. Reed got going pretty quick, but Stewart was at the very back of the pack and had to charge all the way.

Not only did Stewart catch up to Reed, he paid him back a little in the same berm when he block passed him on the outside.

Right after RC won, he stopped on a jump to see if Stewart would stop. Stewart did and motioned over at Reed. Reed stopped too and they started having words, then it broke up in what appeared to be a quick shove, then they took it a few feet away and started having words again. Things got heated all over, even at the podium.

St Louis Practice SX #1

"bitchin track."

Check out this St Louis berm with 4 lines in it already.

Stewart set the fastest lap time near the end of practice #1 at St Louis. He and RC and Reed checked each others speed out a few times. RC had the fastest lap in the middle of the practice but Stewart sprinted at the end.

Yes, It's Snowing at the SX

It is really snowing at St Louis, but not that much really. It's a good thing this one has a covered dome! It's nice inside and the track is bitchin. Paractice going on now.