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2008 Supercross de Montreal
Olympic Stadium
Montreal, Quebec
September 20, 2008


Photos By: Yanick Dery & Barb Miller

Supercross de Montreal ATV Racing
Yamaha's Pat Brown Wins Montreal Supercross - Race Report

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Montreal, Quebec - Blue, Yellow, and Red were the dominating colors on the podium at the 2008 Montreal Supercross as Yamaha’s Pat Brown took top honors, with Can-Am/Epic’s Greg Gee in second, and Honda mounted Harold Goodman claimed a close third.

The Montreal Supercross has always been an attractive event for racers due to the large number of spectators that are always in attendance. Even though attendance did seem to drop a little compared to previous years, there were still over 50,000 race fans there, cheering on their favorites.

Montreal Supercross
Montreal Supercross

The Supercross de Montreal is held at the Montreal Olympic Stadium, which attracts over 50,000 spectators

Although dirtbikes and ATV’s are the main supercross attractions, they are not the only vehicles that race at the event. There are also car and buggie classes that do a sort of auto-cross race on a tamer track setup than what the bikes run. It just so happened that when the quads went out to practice, race officials originally had the quads racing on the auto-cross track, which was a little mellower than what most of the pros were used to. After several crashes last year due to the size and technicality of some of the jumps, officials thought it would be better to have the quads run the less challenging auto-cross track, but that didn’t sit too well with many of the riders, who wanted to put on a good show for the thousands of fans in attendance. After a bit of discussion, it was decided that some of the dirtbike course would be incorporated into the quad track as well to give the riders a little more variety and some bigger jumps, which pleased most racers.

Montreal Supercross ATV Racing

2007 Montreal de Supercross Winner #22 Cody Miller

During the five lap warm up race, Can-Am/Warnert Racing’s Cody Miller, who was last year’s winner, claimed the fastest lap time with 44.357 seconds while Jasmine Plante and Harold Goodman also laid down some impressive times in the 44-second range.

Goodman’s speed that he displayed in the warm up race was apparent in the main event. As the flag was waved, Goodman and Greg Gee were tire to tire going into the first turn, but Goodman was able to edge out Gee to take the holeshot. Not far behind was Pat Brown, Richard Pelchat, and Yamaha’s Thomas Brown, who was making his pro racing debut. A few racers got tangled in the first corner, including Can-Am/Epic’s Sage Baker, which allowed the top five off the line to put a little distance between themselves and the rest of the pack.

Montreal Supercross
Montreal Supercross

18 ATV Racers competed in the Pro ATV Main event with 7 from the USA, and 11 from Canada

Montreal Supercross ATV Racing

Can-Am's John Natalie Jr got tangled up on the start, and it was jus the beginning of his problems as he would only complete 3 laps of the race after tangling later with Hunter Miller

Shortly into the first lap, Pat Brown began to pressure Gee and Goodman. Gee had a close call on one of the jumps, which allowed enough time for Brown to slip by him and begin his pursuit of Goodman, who was in the lead. Pat made his move and took over the lead before the end of the first lap. Gee also made his way around Goodman in the first lap and began to close the gap on Brown.

As racers made their way into the third lap, Hunter Miller and Can-Am/Warnert Racing’s John Natalie connected. The resulting carnage left both of them on the sidelines for the rest of the race. Cody Miller also ran into trouble in the third lap. “I ended up crashing. I hurt my leg a little bit and my handle bars were bent up pretty bad,” said Miller disappointedly. Cody’s crash also left him unable to continue the race.

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