Roy drives for five

From Bullseye Media

STOUFFVILLE, ON -- With a whopping 86-point lead over his Honda Canada Blackfoot Fox Racing teammate Damon Huffman, very little stands in the way of Jean Sebastien Roy clinching his fifth consecutive MX1 title on home turf this weekend at Ste-Julie, QC. If JSR does accomplish the task, it will be the fourth time in five years that he races the final round of the season in Walton as the newly crowned champ.

"It would be nice to get it over with in Quebec, in my home province, but it’s never over until it’s over and that could mean it does go down to Walton if I run into some bad luck or something," said Roy. "If things go well then it should be a done deal, but I'm not counting my chickens until they're hatched."

While Roy is well on his way to start counting his chickens, the rest of the top 10 contenders are too close in points to be counting anything. Only 23 points separate Huffman from Team Suzuki OTSFF's Gavin Gracyk, currently fifth in the standings. Even closer on Huffy's heels is Morgan Racing Yamaha's Craig Decker, who is looking at a mere nine-point deficit. Keith Johnson, fourth in the points chase, is only two points ahead of his OTSFF Suzuki teammate Gracyk, and just 12 points behind Decker. Any one of these riders is in a position to claim runner-up in the championship.

The rest of the top 10 club, Yamaha Canada's Simon Homans (sixth), Morgan Racing Yamaha's Blair Morgan (seventh), Richmond Racing Kawasaki's Evan Laughridge (eighth), Blackfoot Honda's Dusty Klatt (ninth) and OTSFF Suzuki's Mike Treadwell (10th), are in equally precarious positions to be assured they will finish the season with the rankings they now hold down. Homans and Morgan both have 182 points; Laughridge trails them by 17 points. Klatt is just eight points behind Laughridge while Treadwell trails Klatt by 11 points.

Unlike the highly predictable outcome of the MX1 championship, the MX2 East is a wild free-for-all as the tour settles into Ste-Julie for the fourth and final round. Richmond Kawasaki's Kyle Chisholm, at the head of the pack with 129 points, leads second place Blackfoot Honda mounted Mitch Cooke by just seven points. KTM Canada's Michael Willard is firmly in the title mix, trailing Cooke by just one point.