The trek to Toronto and the Rogers Centre for the twelfth round of seventeen in the AMA Supercross series (also an FIM World Championship) saw James Stewart and Justin Brayton place their YZ450Fs into the top five of the Main Event in front of more than 45,000 spectators.

San Manuel Yamaha’s Stewart was hoping for his third victory across the border in what was only the fourth visit of the AMA competition to Toronto. Sadly the Floridian’s hopes were dashed in yet another frantic first corner in which he hit the dirt. A chase back to fight with Ryan Villopoto ended in another collision between the pair but Stewart recovered and completed the rest of the twenty-minute dash impressively recovering positions to 4th.

“I’m just making way too many mistakes,” admitted Stewart, whose DNF last week in Jacksonville was only the fifth time from 71 starts that he had finished outside of the top ten. “I’m making it hard on myself, but in the end I wanted to be smart and take what I could get this week, so I didn’t push too hard to chase the guys up front. There are still five rounds left, and that’s a lot of racing.”

Brayton was 5th and almost six seconds ahead of yet another Yamaha rider with Nick Wey posting his best finish of the season to-date in 6th. Ryan Sipes was leading the Lites main event on his YZ250F but was hit by Blake Wharton and crashed. The Star Racing man was able to remount and collect 5th and remains 3rd in the East Coast points table.

With visits to Arlington, St Louis, Seattle, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas to come Stewart is still 4th in the standings but only 20 points behind new leader Chad Reed. Brayton is 7th and David Millsaps 9th. Round thirteen takes place next Saturday at the Cowboys Stadium in Texas.

2011 AMA-SX Canada Rogers Centre 27/03/2011 20 Laps race I 1 Ryan Dungey Suzuki USA 19’00.414  2 Chad Reed Honda AUS 0’01.889  3 Trey Canard Honda USA 0’14.963  4 James Stewart Yamaha USA 0’38.214  5 Justin Brayton Yamaha USA 0’47.812  6 Nicholas Wey Yamaha USA 0’53.600  7 Andrew Short KTM USA -1Laps  8 Kevin Windham Honda USA -1Laps  9 Ryan Villopoto Kawasaki USA -1Laps  10 Cole Seely Honda USA -1Laps  11 David D Millsaps Yamaha USA -1Laps  12 Weston Peick Yamaha USA -1Laps  13 Fabien Izoird Kawasaki FRA -1Laps  14 Michael Byrne Yamaha AUS -1Laps  15 Tye Simmonds KTM USA -1Laps  19 Austin Stroupe Yamaha USA -12Laps  AMA-SX World Standing Rider Standings After Race 12 of 17 1. Chad Reed Honda AUS 236 2. Ryan Villopoto Kawasaki USA 233 3. Ryan Dungey Suzuki USA 228 4. James Stewart Yamaha USA 216 5. Trey Canard Honda USA 214 6. Andrew Short KTM USA 159 7. Justin Brayton Yamaha USA 137 8. Kevin Windham Honda USA 134 9. David D Millsaps Yamaha USA 128 10. Nicholas Wey Yamaha USA 109 11. Ivan Tedesco Kawasaki USA 108 12. Brett Metcalfe Suzuki AUS 107 13. Mike Alessi KTM USA 83 14. Chris Blose Kawasaki USA 68 15. Kyle Regal Yamaha USA 60 16. Matt Boni Kawasaki USA 48 17. Kyle Chisholm Yamaha USA 46 19. Michael Byrne Yamaha AUS 36 20. Weston Peick Yamaha USA 34 22. Austin Stroupe Yamaha USA 30 26. Thomas Hahn Yamaha USA 17 27. Vince Friese Yamaha USA 12 36. Jeff Alessi Yamaha USA 3 37. Antonio Balbi Yamaha BRA 2				Circuit Length: NACrowd: 45, 217 Weather: Dry Last Years Winner: Ryan Villopoto Manufacturer Standings 27/03/2011 1 Honda 257 2 Kawasaki 248 3 Yamaha 242 4 Suzuki 239 5 KTM 169

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