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Weekly Notes, Part 2: Phoenix

AURORA, Ill. (January 12, 2007) – Amp’d Mobile World Supercross GP/Amp’d Mobile AMA Supercross Series lights up Phoenix’s Chase Field this Saturday. Ricky Carmichael will line up for his final race in Phoenix, and James Stewart looks to stop Carmichael’s two-race win streak at this venue.

The week before the Phoenix stop of Amp’d Mobile World Supercross GP/Amp’d Mobile AMA Supercross Series, Suzuki’s Carmichael will be staying in Southern California as opposed to going home to Tallahassee, Fla. While there, he’ll spend some time testing with the Makita Suzuki team.

Said Carmichael: “This week I’m staying in California. I’ll do a little testing on the Makita Suzuki RM-Z450 -- maybe one or two days of testing -- and work on the suspension. I want to work on the areas where I felt I was weak and try to improve on where I need to be better.”

The Phoenix supercross is one of the three West Coast races that Carmichael plans to contest in 2007 (including Anaheim 1 and San Francisco). His wife Ursula’s family lives in Phoenix and the city is a home away from home for him. It doesn’t hurt that Carmichael has had good luck at Phoenix, winning there in 2005 and 2006 aboard his Makita Suzuki RM250 and RM-Z450, respectively.

“I’m really looking forward to the race in Phoenix,” he said. “I’ve won in Phoenix, I have family there and I get a special feeling when I go to Phoenix, kind of like when I got to Daytona or Atlanta.”

Makita Suzuki teammate Ivan Tedesco will return home to Murrieta, Calif.,