SX: Anaheim 3 Notes And Numbers

The Monster Energy Supercross Championship heads back for its third and final stop in Anaheim this season.

Media Release | Posted January 30, 2013 Aurora, IL

(Photo: Simon Cudby)

PROGRAMMING NOTE: Round 5 of the 2013 Monster Energy Supercross Championship from Anaheim, CA will air LIVE on SPEED on Saturday, February 2nd at 10:30pm ET.

450SX Class: Anaheim Stats

The first race was held on December 4, 1976, and Marty Smith won on a Honda

This race marks the 60th time the gate will drop for a 450SX Class race in Anaheim

Anaheim holds the record for most Monster Energy Supercross races held and will become the first venue to host 60 races

Anaheim has the most first time winners with nine

Chad Reed will be going for his seventh win in Anaheim

James Stewart will be going for his 10th win in Anaheim

Ryan Villopoto won both Anaheim races last season, can he win two of the three this year?

Can points leader Davi Millsaps win two races in Anaheim?

In 26 years of racing, the winner of opening race did not win the second race of the season. Stewart was the last racer to win the first two races of the season (2007). In 1975, Jimmy Ellis became the first racer to win the first two races of the season.

Reed earned his 120th podium finish at the second race at Angel Stadium

450SX Class: Wins by Brand in Anaheim

Yamaha: 20
Honda: 19
Kawasaki: 12
Suzuki: 8

450SX Class: First time Winners in Anaheim

1978: Gaylon Mosier
1979: Kent Howerton
1982: Donnie Hansen
1983: David Bailey
1984: Johnny O'Mara
1990: Damon Bradshaw
1993: Jeremy Mcgrath
2003: Chad Reed
2009: Josh Grant

450SX Class: Oakland Recap

Villopoto earned his 26th 450SX Class victory and is now first on Kawasaki’s all-time 450SX Class win list. In Oakland; Villopoto passed Stewart on this list.

One more victory for Villopoto and he will be tied with Bob Hannah at 27, sixth on the all-time 450SX Class win list

Villopoto is the first repeat winner of 2013. In the previous 39 seasons, the first rider to repeat victories has gone on to win the championship 25 times.

Millsaps keeps his points lead with his third podium of the season with a second; he has finished top four in each of the first four races this season

KTM’s Ryan Dungey earned his second podium of the season; in 53 career starts, he has 37 podium finishes

Team Honda Muscle Milk’s Trey Canard earned his fourth top five-finish and is second in season point standings

Mike Alessi earned his best finish of the season with a fifth; it was his first top five of the season

Chad Reed earned a 12th-place finish in Oakland. In 152 career 450SX Class starts, Reed has only finished out of the top-10 seven times.

Justin Barcia finished 20th for the second consecutive week. These two 20th place finishes follow right after his first career victory.

Stewart has now gone five consecutive races without a podium; he hasn’t been on the podium since Daytona of last season

Matt Goerke now has back-to-back top-10 finishes for the first time in his career

Vince Friese earned the first top-10 finish of his career with a ninth place finish

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