Stewart celebrates fourth win of 2011

San Manuel Yamaha’s James Stewart roared back to the top of the AMA
Supercross podium last Saturday at the Edward Jones Dome in St Louis
and ended a winless streak of eight races. The fourteenth round of the
series (also an FIM World Championship) saw Stewart looking to
recapture some edge and get on the box for the first time since
obtaining a runner-up position in Indianapolis a month ago.

In front of almost 60,000 spectators the
Floridian quickly overtook holeshotter Ivan Tedesco and never looked
back, wheeling away to notch Yamaha’s seventh victory in St Louis in
what was the sixteenth main event held in the city. It was the fourth
triumph of the season for the former champion.

"Man, I was more emotional there than
winning the championship. For me, it was just everything,” said Stewart
who shed tears during the prize giving ceremony after several weeks of
adversity and misfortune. “I guess the last eight weeks just started
coming out of me and I just couldn’t hold it in. I was trying to. It
was just special. When you can’t do right on or off the track, having
my sponsors say, 'we still stick behind you even after some losses,'
and the fans still cheering and all that; I just think it was special.
And, for me, it was super-emotional."

JGR Yamaha’s Davi Millsaps and Valli
Motorsports Austin Stroupe broke into the top ten on their YZ450Fs with
seventh and ninth positions respectively. In the penultimate round of
the East Coast Lites Ryan Sipes took his YZ250F to second place to
further consolidate his third place in the series points table.

In terms of the SX championship
standings Stewart is fourth and sixteen points behind leader Ryan
Villopoto who filled the bottom step of the rostrum in St Louis. With
visits to Seattle, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas still to come Stewart
retains a mathematical chance of lifting the 2011 crown. Millsaps is
eighth, just in front of Brayton, with Nick Wey eleventh.


Seattle’s Qwest Field will host round fifteen next Saturday.

2011 AMA-SX United States Edward Jones Dome 10/04/2011 20 Laps race I 1 James Stewart Yamaha USA 16'13.684  2 Ryan Dungey Suzuki USA 0'03.001  3 Ryan Villopoto Kawasaki USA 0'11.117  4 Chad Reed Honda AUS 0'18.035  5 Trey Canard Honda USA 0'22.081  6 Kevin Windham Honda USA 0'36.882  7 David D Millsaps Yamaha USA 0'41.158  8 Ivan Tedesco Kawasaki USA 0'42.462  9 Austin Stroupe Yamaha USA 0'46.835  10 Andrew Short KTM USA -1Laps  11 Thomas Hahn Yamaha USA -1Laps  12 Chris Blose Kawasaki USA -1Laps  13 Nicholas Wey Yamaha USA -1Laps  14 Kyle Regal Yamaha USA -1Laps  15 Michael Byrne Suzuki AUS -1Laps  20 Weston Peick Yamaha USA -10Laps  AMA-SX World Standing Rider Standings After Race 14 of 17 1. Ryan Villopoto Kawasaki USA 275 2. Ryan Dungey Suzuki USA 270 3. Chad Reed Honda AUS 267 4. James Stewart Yamaha USA 259 5. Trey Canard Honda USA 255 6. Andrew Short KTM USA 185 7. Kevin Windham Honda USA 165 8. David D Millsaps Yamaha USA 143 9. Justin Brayton Yamaha USA 141 10. Ivan Tedesco Kawasaki USA 127 11. Nicholas Wey Yamaha USA 120 12. Brett Metcalfe Suzuki AUS 107 13. Mike Alessi KTM USA 98 14. Chris Blose Kawasaki USA 85 15. Kyle Regal Yamaha USA 72 16. Fabien Izoird Kawasaki FRA 55 17. Austin Stroupe Yamaha USA 54 20. Kyle Chisholm Yamaha USA 46 21. Weston Peick Yamaha USA 45 22. Thomas Hahn Yamaha USA 41 27. Vince Friese Yamaha USA 12 36. Jeff Alessi Yamaha USA 3 37. Antonio Balbi Yamaha BRA 2				Crowd: 59, 518 Weather: Dry Lap Record: 0'50.947 (Chad Reed, 2/18/2006) Last Years Winner: Ryan Dungey Manufacturer Standings 10/04/2011 1 Honda 300 2 Kawasaki 290 3 Yamaha 285 4 Suzuki 281 5 KTM 195