Team Makita Suzuki Racing's Ivan Tedesco carded one of his best finishes of the 2007 AMA Toyota Motocross Championship season on Sunday afternoon by picking up sixth-place overall at Pennsylvania's Steel City Raceway.

Tedesco rode his Makita Suzuki RM-Z450 to sixth place in the first 30-minute moto and to fifth place in the second moto.

Ivan Tedesco:
 
"It was a little bit muddy this weekend, which isn't my favourite condition. In the first moto I didn't get the greatest start but I made some passes and got myself into sixth place. I pretty much rode by myself in that moto, though at the end I was catching up to Andrew Short but couldn't quite get him. By the second moto, the track was pretty good and I got a little bit better start and made my passes a little bit quicker. It was kind of the same as in the first moto - I rode by myself for a while and started to catch Short but couldn't quite get him. But I rode a lot better in the second moto and I felt like my pace was right there with the leaders. I just need to get a little bit better start to get up there and race with them. We made some tyre changes before the second moto and I was way more comfortable, I felt like I could charge a lot harder and the Makita Suzuki RM-Z450 was really good."

Team Makita Suzuki Racing will race next at Freestone County Raceway in Wortham, Texas on September 1-2.

AMA Toyota Motocross Top 10 Finishers:
1. Grant Langston (Yamaha)
2. Mike Alessi (KTM)
3. Kevin Windham (Honda)
4. Andrew Short (Honda)
5. Tim Ferry (Kawasaki)
6. Ivan Tedesco (Makita Suzuki)
7. Gavin Gracyk (Honda)
8. Michael Byrne (Rockstar Suzuki)
9. Yoshitaka Atsuta (Honda)
10. Josh Summey (Honda)