The 2013 Supercross AMA National Championship is poised to kick off April 6 in Houston, TX and will definitely be a stiff competition among the many challengers. Some of the top riders should be Ryan Villopoto, Ryan Dungey, Blake Baggett, Justin Barcia, and Ricky Carmichael. Houston is just the first leg in the tour, where riders will attempt to set the pace.
The most dominant riding should appear in both this race and the last race. We predict the top three riders will finish in this order: Villopoto, Ivan Tedesco, and Ryan Baggett. Though Ryan Dungey was a tempting pick, we cannot see him finishing in the top three given his subpar performance in the World Motocross Championships. In the 2012 Motocross Tour in Germany, Dungey came in behind Baggett below the #7 spot. This shed light on the inefficiencies of the US Motocross team and Dungey specifically.
Tedesco is a hard-to-sell pick, but he has been finishing in a higher position every year. Travis Pastrana would make an interesting pick, but his foray into other sports have taken away from the time he used to spend solely on motocross runs. He’ll likely make the top ten, however, and have a chance to redeem himself in the next leg of the race. We’re definitely excited to see how it turns out!
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