Villopoto First Multiple Winner in 2012

Villopoto picked up his second Nuclear Cowboyz Holeshot of the season to start the Supercross main. (Photo: AMASupercross.com)

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Kawasaki’s Ryan Villopoto completed the sweep of AMA Monster Energy Supercross events at Angel Stadium on Saturday night to become the first multiple winner in 2012. He led all 20 laps of the main event in front of a sold-out crowd.

Villopoto picked up his second Nuclear Cowboyz Holeshot of the season to start the race with Two Two Motorsports/BelRay/Honda’s Chad Reed in tow. Reed passed Villopoto on the opening lap but was passed back the following lap. Toyota/Yamaha/JGRMX’s James Stewart, who crashed in his heat race and then won the last chance qualifier, moved into third place on Lap 1. On Lap 8, Stewart passed Reed for second place. Stewart finished second, 4.8 seconds behind, and Reed finished third.

“James (Stewart) and Chad (Reed) were riding good tonight,” said Villopoto, who averaged a lap time of 57.272 seconds. “I knew I had to stay on my toes and not make a mistake. We need to take it one race at a time. I had a great start and to be perfect on the start difficult.”

GEICO Honda’s Eli Tomac won his third consecutive Western Regional Supercross Lites class race to extended his points lead to 22.

Tomac opened the Lites class main event with the Nuclear Cowboyz Holeshot with Troy Lee Designs/Lucas Oil/Honda’s Cole Seely, who won the season opening race in Anaheim earlier this year, on his rear wheel through the first turn. Seely quickly passed Tomac for the lead. On Lap 3, Seely slid out and fell back to second place as Tomac assumed the lead. Seely finished second and Red Bull KTM’s Marvin Musquin finished third.

“Tonight’s track was difficult,” Tomac said. “It’s too bad Cole (Seely) slid out because he was going really fast, and I knew that I would have to work hard to get around him. I look forward to going to San Diego next weekend."