Team Makita Suzuki Racing's Ivan Tedesco carded one of his best finishes of the 2007 AMA Toyota Motocross Championship season on Sunday afternoon by picking up sixth-place overall at Pennsylvania's Steel City Raceway. Tedesco rode his Makita Suzuki RM-Z450 to sixth place in the first 30-minute moto and to fifth place in the second moto. Makita Suzuki team mate Ricky Carmichael did not race at Steel City because he is running an abbreviated race schedule for 2007.
Newly-crowned AMA Motocross Champion Ricky Carmichael raced his RM-Z450 to two straight race wins at the weekend’s 11th round at Steel City Raceway near Delmont in Pennsylvania as his Makita Suzuki team mate Broc Hepler dominated the Lites class. Carmichael, who clinched his 10th AMA Motocross Championship at the last round in New York, won effortless on a track that had been soaked the previous day by a rain storm, taking his 70th AMA Motocross overall win – an AMA record.
Ricky Carmichael comes into the 19th Annual Monster Energy/Kawasaki Pro Motocross National at Steel City Raceway on Sunday, Sept. 3, the newly crowned champion of the 2006 AMA Toyota Motocross Championship Presented by FMF. With the championship clinched Carmichael says he will turn to preparation for the Motocross of Nations. If that preparation includes winning at Steel City it will mark his 70th-career AMA Motocross victory.