SPY’S WINDHAM AND CANARD SWEEP DAYTONA SUPERCROSS

Spy Optic supercross racers Kevin Windham and Trey Canard were crowned Daytona Supercross champions at the tenth round of the Monster AMA Supercross Series—not only overcoming their competitive fields but quite possibly the muddiest conditions ever experienced in the history of supercross.


Their wins gave Spy a 1-1 sweep of the premier AMA Supercross class and support AMA Supercross Lites class.

Windham took advantage of leader Chad Reed’s stalled bike with just a couple turns left to go in the race to take the win – his second of the 2008 supercross season.

Windham and the rest of the field were a muddy mess only seconds into the rain-shortened twelve lap (from 20) main event. Windham got out in second place on the start and from there it became a session of survival to record his first win ever at the legendary Daytona track.

Prior to the Supercross class main event, Spy Optic’s Trey Canard won his heat race, carrying the momentum of two-straight Lites class main event wins into Friday’s Lites final at Daytona. Canard’s No. 48 Honda CRF450R got the lead early, and he held on through the checkers over hard-charging defending supercross Lites champion Ryan Villopoto.

Canard was one of the only riders able to keep his goggles on through the insane conditions. “I finally had to ditch them with only a couple corners to go when I got completely roosted by a lapper. The conditions were as brutal as it gets and the Alloy roll-offs worked perfectly.”


As of that weekend, Windham sat within 23 points of series leader Reed, while Spy teammate Andrew Short was third in the standings with 154 points. In the Supercross Lites division Canard enjoyed a wide lead over the rest of the field, 75-51.

- Surfeyes.com