Another weekend of  perfect weather and track conditions welcomed racers to the start line for moto 1 and it was veteran Kevin Windham who grabbed the hole-shot leading a chasing pack of young guns.  Townley quickly passed Reed for fourth but then came under pressure from a charging Josh Grant.  BT and Grant  closed down Andrew Short with Grant eventually finding his way around the Kiwi.   With 12 minutes to go,   Townley pushed a tiring Windham aside to move into 4^th place as he set his sights on Andrew Short but ran out of time to pose a threat to the Factory Honda rider.

An exciting start to moto 2 saw Townley steel the lead from Short after three corners but he lost the front end a moments later and had to remount and give chase to the leaders.  A determined ‘BT’ clawed his way through the pack and salvaged 5^th spot by the end of the 30 min + 2 laps moto.

“Although I have climbed to third in the championship, I am actually disappointed with my result today” explained Townley.  “After Red Bud, I thought I knew what it would take to run up front and stay there but it just never seemed to work today.   We made some improvements on the bike  and still have some more to come so I’m look forward to piecing it all together.”

Ryan Dungey raced to his sixth consecutive victory and increased his series lead at the AMA Motocross Championship. Rockstar Makita Suzuki RM-Z450-mounted Dungey claimed two straight race wins in front of his home crowd to open his Championship lead to 89 points.

Dungey was smooth, controlled, fast, and had the physical conditioning to outlast the competition. He went into the event with a 64-point lead in the and with winning both motos he has now stretched that.

"It was nice to pull a win off for Minnesota," Dungey said after the race. "We can all celebrate it together now."

"Today was awesome," Team Manger Roger DeCoster said. "And Ryan has proved now that the tougher the conditions, the better it is for him. Today was really tough, really hot, and the humidity was I think the highest it's been this season. It looked liked riders were struggling more here than they were in Texas. But Ryan put 40 seconds on second place in the second moto and he was smooth and riding clean. He's doing awesome."

After qualifying the fastest, the entire crowd at the track was cheering Dungey on at the start of the first moto. He shot out of the gate on his Suzuki fuel-injected RM-Z450 and into second place as the racers starting tackling the varying obstacles of the track. About 10 minutes into the race, Dungey made his move and took over the lead. With his superior physical conditioning and all the power he could ever need from this RM-Z, Dungey started putting time between him and the rest of the pack. By the end of the race, he had a 20-second lead and a decisive Moto 1 win.

In the second moto, Dungey came out of the gate near fifth place, but he certainly didn't stay there for long. In one move, he put himself in third place and then kept working on the leaders. Eventually he found his way to the front and then, with the crowd voraciously cheering him on, he built a nearly 40-second lead by the moto end. With other racers succumbing to the intense heat and humidity, Dungey looked as fresh on the track at the end of Moto 2 as he did qualifying earlier in the day.

"To win here today and go 1-1 feels really great," Dungey said. "I grew up here and I wanted to win, but even more than that I was just enjoying seeing everyone that I grew up with. The fans out here are really committed and they're hardcore. To have people behind us like that is really cool, and not just for me but for our whole sport."

Dungey's team mate Matt Moss showed promise at the start of both motos, keeping himself in the top 10 for the first part of each race. But a nagging injury has haunted the Australian's season, preventing him from staying up front for the entire 30-minute-plus motos. Moss finished 29th in moto 1 and 18th in the second race, putting him in 21st overall.

Tyla Rattray had shaken off the after-effects of his thudding crash at the previous event, and was ready to take the battle to the opposition again. The South African started his race day off in fine fashion, qualifying in fourth position on his Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki.

The sun was beating down fiercely as the combatants lined up for race one. The heat would be driven to high pressure point by the sizzling action on the track, known as one of the most challenging on the US circuit. One of its distinguishing features is a long set of whoops that are nasty enough to start with, but assume monstrous proportions during the course of the day as the track roughens up. A sea of tranquility indeed.

Tyla's start in race one was not real copybook stuff, and he had to start his campaign from outside of the top 10. His internal GPS knows only one direction, and that is forward, and he set about repairing the bad position he found himself in. He made rapid progress, and as the stifling hit started to take its toll on the field, his superior fitness became a strong ally. Although the leaders had built up too much of a cushion to enable him to battle for a podium finish, he came home in fourth position, quite decent considering the start.

A much better launch in the second race saw the hard-working South African occupy sixth spot at the outset. Again he heeded the call of the front, and before long he was in third spot. The bright skies and searing heat earlier in the day had by now made way for looming clouds and some early spattering of rain drops turned into a fairly decent downpour. The track mudded up with a fair degree of rapidity, and on this occasion it counted against Tyla. He was forced to ditch his goggles, and it is not hard to imagine what the effect hereof was on his progress.

Rain drops, mingled with mud, and driven into your eyes at speed, have this amazing habit of reducing your vision to a considerable degree, and it was exactly because of this that Tyla made a mistake and tumbled, when there were only a few laps left to go. His once safe third position now came under threat as Justin Barcia grasped the opportunity to grab the spot. Tyla thus crossed the line in fourth position again, but his efforts for the day were still enough to gain him a podium reward with third overall.

As the championship battle heats up, Tyla dropped one spot in the overall standings to fourth. Although championship leader and teammate Christophe Pourcel enjoys a sizeable lead at this stage, the battle for second position is well and truly open, with only sixteen points separating Tyla from teammate Dean Wilson who holds the second spot.