Dungey poised to claim third 450SX title

The Monster Energy AMA Supercross series will make its highly anticipated return to New England this weekend at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, for the fifteenth race of the season. It will mark the championship’s first race in the region since 1990.

Following his third straight 450SX class victory this past weekend in St. Louis, defending champion and points leader, Ryan Dungey, enters Foxborough with a chance to clinch his second consecutive (and third premier-class) title. The Red Bull KTM rider will also be chasing a personal-best nine wins in a season after equaling the career-best mark he set just last season.

Here are some jaw-dropping RD5 stats we’d like you to have a think about ahead this weekend:

• With his 30th career 450SX class win at St. Louis, Ryan Dungey became the sixth rider in Monster Energy AMA Supercross history to reach the 30-win mark, joining Ricky Carmichael, Jeremy McGrath, Chad Reed, James Stewart and Ryan Villopoto.
• The win extended Dungey’s record podium streak to 30 races. He also has 32 straight top-five finishes, 43 consecutive top-10 results and has started 68 straight races.
• Dungey is one podium away from tying Ricky Carmichael for third on the all-time list at 87. He will also equal Carmichael’s all-time career starts this weekend at 115.
• Dungey’s eighth win of the season equals the career-best mark he set last season. He has won at least one race in each of his seven seasons of 450SX class competition.
• Another victory would mark the first time in his career that Dungey has won four consecutive races. He has two separate three-race streaks this season alone.
• The 450SX class podium has produced the exact same finishing order for three straight weeks – Dungey in first, Ken Roczen in second, and Jason Anderson in third.