Ryan Dungey Wins the 2010 AMA Motocross Championship

• Ryan Dungey clinched
  the AMA Pro Motocross title at Southwick, making it the second title of
  his phenomenal rookie year in the 450 class.


• Dungey
  wrapped up the championship with two races left in the series, thanks
  to the massive points lead Dungey built by his monumental winning
  streak of nine overall races in a row.


• Dungey has been on
  a Suzuki throughout his amateur and pro career, and has now won four
  titles in two years aboard Suzuki dirt bikes: 2009 AMA Supercross
  Western Regional Lites Championship, 2009 AMA 250 Motocross
  Championship, 2010 AMA Supercross Championship, and now the 2010 AMA
  Pro Motocross Championship.


• Dungey has been named as the
  captain for the U.S. team competing in the Motocross of Nations in
  September. He won his event last year, securing the win for Team USA in
  2009.

Brea, Calif. – August 30, 2010 –
History has been made. Ryan Dungey is the 2010 AMA Pro Motocross
Champion, securing his second title of the year this weekend at
Southwick MX in Massachusetts. The 20-year-old rookie has gained enough
points in the series with his complete domination of the 450 motocross
class to take home the trophy with two races still left on the
schedule. Dungey claimed the 2010 AMA Supercross title in May, making
him the youngest rookie racer ever to do so, and now has added the Pro
Motocross championship to his list of accomplishments, making him the
only rookie ever to clinch both titles. Dungey has been unstoppable on
his Suzuki fuel-injected RM-Z450 and has taken home the win in the past
nine races in a row and won 16 out of 20 motos


"What Ryan has done, no one has ever done before including McGrath,
Stewart, Carmichael," Team Manager Roger DeCoster said. "No one has
ever won both the Supercross and a National Championship back to back
as a rookie. It's pretty impressive. Sometimes, because Ryan is such a
subdued nice guy, you don’t really realize what a big thing that he has
done. I expect more and more perfection, but you look back and see that
he is doing things that no one has ever done before – it's pretty
impressive."


Dungey went into Southwick focused on racing his best race, like
always. He lined up at the gate determined to give his best performance
on the sandy, technical track in Massachusetts, and at the start of
moto 1, Dungey started near the front of the pack. He moved into second
place and stayed there most of the race. During the last lap, Dungey
was battling for the lead when the opportunity to move up presented
itself. Dungey and his RM-Z450 took the lead with less than a lap to go
and took the win.


With the championship in view, Dungey lined up for moto 2 focused on
finishing strong again. Dungey moved into the lead early in the race
and by the time the checkered flag flew, he was more than 24 seconds
ahead of second place. Dungey clinched the title by ending the day 151
points ahead of second place with only two races left on the schedule.


"This feels great," Dungey said after the race. "It’s a lot of hard
work and a lot of long weeks in the off season to prepare for this, but
its all the better when you pull it off and win the championship. It's
not all me, everyone on the Rockstar Makita Suzuki team put in 110
percent into everything they do and that’s all I could ever ask. We
work well together and enjoy working together at the same time. It
makes it fun."


"The Suzuki family is ecstatic to add this championship to our trophy
case," Rod Lopusnak, Suzuki’s National Sales Manager for the Motorcycle
Division, said. "Looking back at the last year, it is hard to find one
word other than ‘Champion’ to express what Ryan, the RM-Z450, and Team
Rockstar Makita Suzuki have accomplished in their rookie season!"


"Congratulations to Ryan Dungey for his awesome, record-breaking rookie
season!" Yoshimura R&D of America Vice President Don Sakakura said.
"Ryan's courage, superior skills, and diligent conditioning were
instrumental in his dominating motocross season, accomplishments which
Ryan will surely cherish for a lifetime. His Suzuki RM-Z450 performed
flawlessly all season long, and we must offer sincere appreciation to
the Suzuki engineering team abroad, as well Roger DeCoster and his team
of race technicians."


"It's been a perfect season; probably a season we will remember for the
rest of our lives," DeCoster said. "It's never happened before – a
rookie has never won back to back championships. Ryan has done it."


Dungey has made history winning a total of four national titles in the
past two years. Ryan won two titles in 2009, the AMA Supercross Western
Regional Lites and the 250 Motocross championships, both on the
RM-Z250, as well as being the hero of Team USA at the Motocross of
Nations in Italy. Now with the 2010 Supercross and the Motocross title
in his possession, Dungey was named the captain of Team USA and hopes
to keep the Motocross of Nations championship in the U.S.


The next AMA Pro Motocross race takes place at Steel City in Delmont,
PA, on September 4th. Dungey, despite having clinched the title, will
be focused on battling for the lead there.

Ryan Dungey battled during the entire first moto and took over the lead on the final lap to the take the win.



Dungey took the lead in the second moto and then put more than 24
seconds between him and the rest of the pack, taking the win again.



With his 1-1 moto finishes, Dungey took his ninth overall victory in a row.



Ryan Dungey clinched the 2010 AMA Pro Motocross Championship on
Saturday at Southwick, his second title of 2010, making him one of the
most prolific rookies ever.

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