Chad Reed bludgeons his way to San Diego AMA Supercross victory

Australia’s Chad Reed took his San Manuel Yamaha out of the gate behind Davi Millsaps at San Diego on Saturday and wasted no time putting a move in for the lead.

But Red Bull Honda’s Millsaps bounced back and retook it straight away.

Chad Reed waited until lap three before making another pass and starting to build a gap, but the young Floridian did a decent job of keeping Reed honest.

Tim Ferry came round fifth at the end of lap one and brought his Monster Energy Kawasaki up to challenge for third by the halfway mark before Reed chose to inject some excitement into the race when he dropped it in the sand section.

Davi Millsaps seized his chance to retake the lead and Ferry leapt right on to Reed’s tail, but Chad kept calm, taking a couple of laps to regroup before charging back with Ferry in tow.

Chad Reed took the lead back from Millsaps with a couple of laps left, and Tim Ferry managed to put a pass on Millsaps for second on the last lap, capping a fine run for the red-headed Floridian.

Millsaps had pace to give Reed pause for thought, but should be happy with a podium after some gastric afflictions of late.

In the Lites class, the battle between Ryan Dungey and Jason Lawrence took another swing in Lawrence‘s favour – Makita Suzuki’s Dungey has been suffering a torrid time of late.

Lawrence took a spectacular holeshot by railing the outside of turn one, whilst Dungey got mired back in seventh.

Fighting back, Suzuki’s great hope went down early on in a battle with Bobby Kiniry, losing his helmet visor but remounting and beginning a second charge.

As Jason Lawrence eked out a lead he was to hold all the way to the chequered flag, Dungey made his way back up the field but crashed twice more – it’s to his credit that he carried on regardless and finished sixth, with Austin Stroupe right on his tail.

Two rounds left in the West Coast Lites series, and Dungey has gone from a cushion of almost a whole race to being two points in arrears to Lawrence – either way, it’s not over yet.

San Diego AMA Supercross round 6 results:

1 Chad Reed – Yamaha
2 Timmy Ferry – Kawasaki 
3 David Millsaps – Honda
4 Andrew Short – Honda
5 Kevin Windham – Honda 
6 Joshua Hill – Yamaha

Championship standings:

1 Chad Reed 147
2 Kevin Windham 112
3 Tim Ferry 99