It’s Tedesco Again! Monster Energy Drink-Supercross Flyer Puts On Amazing Show in San Francisco
2/3/2005
Defending supercross 125 West Champ survives a first lap
pile up, then captures the full attention of the SBC Ballpark crowd in racing
back to podium finish!
CARLSBAD, Calif., (Feb. 2, 2005) - Team Monster Energy Drink/Pro
Circuit/Kawasaki's Ivan Tedesco was the talk of the 125cc class last Saturday,
even though he didn’t win.
For the second-straight week, the popular rider from New Mexico was forced to
rally from an early deficit – this time getting taken out by friendly rival
Nathan Ramsey – and having to race back from 16th place to
make the 125 class main event podium at Round Four of the 2005 THQ/AMA
Supercross Series at San Francisco’s SBC Park.
“It’s not that I’m getting used to it, but it’s kind of fun coming through the
field like that,” said Tedesco. “You know you’re on an unreal bike (Pro
Circuit-tuned Kawasaki KX250F) when you can come from the back-of-the-pack to
make the podium.
“I just use a bit of riding ability and flat out pin it. The bike does the
rest.”
The modest champion actually almost pulled the holeshot, battling Danny Smith
at the start. Smith and Tedesco seemed to be clear of the field when Ramsey
charged and took himself and Tedesco out on the third turn.
“Yeah, I was kind of surprised at Nathan’s move,” said Tedesco. “I was able to
hold onto the bars and keep the bike going. He (Ramsey) ended up taking himself
out of the race.” (Note: Ramsey’s bike wouldn’t start following the wreck and
he DNF’d.)
Tedesco got to the 125 main by winning his qualifier, including pulling the holeshot.
After his get together with Ramsey, Tedesco reeled in the entire field, except
for race leaders Billy Laninovich (his first win) and Andrew Short.
“Unfortunately, those guys had too big a lead for me to catch them,” said
Tedesco. “I was able to get through the pack, but had to settle for third.”
Tedesco now has a commanding 13-point lead over Ryan Sipes (whom he was tied
with heading into Round Four) for the overall 125 Western Region points lead.
Paul Carpenter, Tedesco’s teammate on the Monster Energy Drink/Pro
Circuit/Kawasaki team, finished 16th overall in the 125
main event. Carpenter missed the main in his qualifier, finishing tenth, then
rallied for a second place finish in the LCQ to make the main. Carpenter did
show signs of top ten speed (8th fastest lap time in the
main), but a couple mistakes had him settling for 16th.
Team Monster Energy Drink/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki is back in Anaheim this weekend
for what looks to be yet another capacity crowd at Angel Stadium.
Monster Energy Drink/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki team sponsors include: Parts
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Brakes, RK Racing Chain, UFO, Mechanix Wear, CTI2, Vertex, Alpinestars, PPG,
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