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Team Suzuki Press Office – June 18. 

Rock­star Energy Rac­ing Suzuki’s Jason Ander­son raced to his best result of the sea­son at the fifth round of the Lucas Oils AMA Motocross ‘Lites” series at Budds Creek at Mechan­icsville on Sat­ur­day aboard his RM-Z250.

Ander­son ral­lied after a poor start to fin­ish sev­enth in the first moto and then sixth in the sec­ond to bring home a com­mend­able sixth over­all for the day.

Said Ander­son: “This week­end was good: I had a bad start in the first moto but came up to sev­enth. In the sec­ond moto I was run­ning fourth and ended up coming-out with sixth in the moto. I was sixth over­all and I felt more solid than I usu­ally do, so this was a good day for me. We’re going to keep at it dur­ing the break and be fighting-strong for RedBud.”

Rock­star Energy Rac­ing Suzuki team-mate Blake Whar­ton is get­ting back into his 250 MX groove after miss­ing last sea­son due to injury. Although he got a less-than-stellar start in the first moto, Whar­ton came back to ninth. In the sec­ond moto, he crashed on the first lap but ral­lied to fin­ish 18th. Over­all, Whar­ton was 12th for the day.

“I rode pretty good in the first moto,” said Whar­ton. “But it was a rough week­end. You have them every now and then – some­times more often than you want. But we’ve got a lit­tle break now, so we’ll rest up and come back strong for RedBud.”

Con­tin­u­ing to progress and improve in the 250 class, Rock­star Energy Suzuki Racing’s Hunter Hewitt went down at the start of the first moto and had to come from dead last. Even so, Hewitt made it from 40th to 25th. In the sec­ond moto he got off the line bet­ter and fin­ished 15th and fin­ished the day in 18th overall.

Said Hewitt: “Today was kind-of tough: In the first moto, I went down on the start and couldn’t re-start my bike. I came from last all the way to 25th. In the sec­ond moto, I just tried the best I could. I got a decent start and went all the way to 15th and stayed there. Now we’ve got a two-week break before Red­Bud, which is really much appreciated.”

Rock­star Energy Rac­ing Suzuki’s Jes­sica Pat­ter­son cur­rently leads the over­all Cham­pi­onship points in the WMX class – which didn’t run at Budds Creek – and Rock­star Energy Rac­ing Suzuki’s Mar­tin Dava­los con­tin­ues to recover from a recent crash.

The next event for the Rock­star Energy Rac­ing Suzuki team is the sixth round of the 2012 AMA Pro Motocross Cham­pi­onship on Sat­ur­day July 7th at the Red­Bud National in Buchanan.