Former AMA Lites class champion still solidly in the top ten overall points

CARLSBAD, Calif., (Feb. 12, 2007) – Monster Energy’s Ivan Tedesco continued his successful 2007 Amp’d Mobile AMA Supercross Series comeback from a pre-season broken hand, this past weekend racing to an 8^th place overall finish in the AMA Supercross class main event – his best finish since Anaheim 3.

Tedesco transferred to the main with a solid 4^th place finish in heat No. 2. In the main he pulled a good start on his Makita/Suzuki RMZ450, ripping into 6^th place after the first lap then getting by Michael Byrne for 5^th soon there after. Tedesco seemed to have settled into 5^th, holding that position through lap 12, when a mistake in the whoops cost him about five positions.

The former champion would battle back and hold onto 8^th overall and the 13 points that go with it.

As it stands Tedesco is in 9^th place overall after completing six of the 16 rounds. Next up for Tedesco is the San Diego (Qualcomm Stadium), where last year he placed 6^th in the main event.

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