Seattle, WA – Red Bull KTM Factory rider Ryan Dungey earned 3^rd overall at round fifteen of the Monster Energy Supercross Series held at Century Link Field while teammate Ken Roczen finished a hard fought 7^th overall.

Roczen and Dungey were among the top contenders in the early practice sessions. Roczen finished qualifying atop of the lap times placing him in heat race one. Dungey was fourth fastest in practice putting him in heat two.

Dungey kicked the night show off in fine form launching from his start gate in 2^nd spot. By lap five he had found his rhythm and after making a few attempts to take the lead from Mike Alessi he made a pass stick with a lap to go and went on to win the heat.

Roczen qualified for the main by finishing heat two in 3^rd spot. He didn’t get the best of starts getting out of the gate around 7^th position; however, by lap two had worked his way up to 4^th. Successfully maneuvering his way past Short he started to reel in Barcia in 2^nd. Unfortunately time was not on his side and he was unable to get by Barcia transferring to the main event in 3^rd.

In the main, Dungey got a good start rounding the opening turn just shy of the holeshot behind Villopoto. However, several mistakes early on allowed James Stewart who was in 3^rd at the time to gain ground on Dungey and Stewart got past on lap four. Dungey pulled it together and held off a hard charging Eli Tomac to finish the night on the podium beside Villopoto and Stewart.

Roczen got a reasonable start and rounded the opening lap in 5^th position. However a mistake in the rutted out whoops section prior the finish line jump on lap five cost him several positions. Soon a three way battle between Roczen, Short and Canard ensued for much of the remainder of the race with Roczen ultimately taking the checkers in 7^th place.

“I am not happy with the way I rode and I made quite a few mistakes tonight,” stated Dungey. “I need to go back to the drawing board this week with the team in California. Having a weekend away from racing should do me good and I want to come out at New Jersey feeling refreshed and ready to go.”

“I just didn’t ride very well,” said Roczen. “I am really lucky that I managed to save myself from crashing in those whoops. That could have ended up a lot worse. I just didn’t find my rhythm again after that. I battled with Shorty and Canard for quite a bit but I just didn’t have my A game on tonight.”

Next Event: New Jersey SX – April 26, 2014

Overall Results –

1. Ryan Villopoto
2. James Stewart
3. Ryan Dungey
4. Eli Tomac
5. Justin Barcia
6. Trey Canard
7. Ken Roczen
8. Andrew Short
9. Josh Hill
10. Mike Alessi
11. Weston Peick
12. Chris Blose
13. Nicholas Wey
14. Nicholas Schmidt
15. Kyle Regal
16. Killian Rusk
17. Ronnie Stewart
18. Phil Nicoletti
19. Tevin Tapia
20. Cody Gilmore

Overall Point Standings –

1. Ryan Villopoto (318)

2. James Stewart (270)

3. Ryan Dungey (267)

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