Lap Time Comparison Charts: 2013 Salt Lake City SX

Photo: Simon Cudby – Courtesy of KTM Images

The 2013 Salt Lake City Supercross and the penultimate round of the 2013 Monster Energy Supercross, an FIM World Championship Series, is officially in the books. In the 450 class, it was Monster Kawasaki’s Ryan Villopoto winning the race and, with that, his third-straight 450SX Championship. In the 250SX class, Rockstar Energy Racing’s Jason Anderson banked the first win of his career. Villopoto needed to finish in front of Rockstar Energy Racing’s Davi Millsaps and Red Bull/KTM’s Ryan Dungey to sew up the title, and he did exactly what he needed to do. While Villopoto stacked up more wins and another 450SX Championship at round sixteen, Anderson looked like a poised veteran as he checked out, putting the first notch of his career in his belt, and making the wire-to-wire win look effortless.

In the lap time battle, it was Villopoto (46.866) edging out Millsaps (46.873) and Dungey (46.933) for the fastest time of the night. On the super-technical Salt Lake City circuit, the three Championship hopefuls were on their own level, and their times were the best indication of that. Not only were they the only riders in the 46’s, but on top of that, their average lap-times were just a tenth off of the fourth place rider’s fastest single lap of the race. It was an incredible war of wills at Rice-Eccles Stadium.

In the 250SX main event—just like in the 450SX class—the winner registered the quickest time of the main event. On the Salt Lake circuit, it came down to who could get through the mammoth whoops the fastest, and that honor went to Anderson. Anderson’s consistency through the whoops clocked him the fastest lap-time (47.971) and netted him the top spot on the box. Anderson was the only man down in the 47’s with Troy Lee Designs/Honda ‘s Cole Seely (48.330) and Monster/PC/Kawasaki’s Martin Davalos (48.699) being the only riders in the 48’s. With Eli Tomac and Ken Roczen dominating everything out West, it was nice to see some new faces on the leaderboard in Utah.

You can check out the top ten 250SX and 450X times from the main event below. Scroll down to see how the main events broke down lap-for-lap and how the top five 250SX finishers matched up against the top five 450SX finishers with MotoXAddicts’ lap-time comparison charts.

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On the left of each graph, you will notice the lap times and the numbers on the bottom signifying each lap. Below that, we have the top five riders in the order they finished and each lap time from the main event after their name. Also, note that each rider’s fastest lap is shaded in blue at the end of the graph followed by their average lap time. You can run your cursor over the lines to see which rider they signify. Make sure you click the graphs to enlarge before viewing.

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