In front of a highly-charged crowd at the Olympic Stadium, veteran American Yamaha rider Nick Wey from Michigan won the 33rd running of the Supermotocross Monster Energy presented by Coors Light and Parts Canada/Thor held Saturday night in Montréal. Two other American riders, Teddy Maier and Troy Adams, both on Kawasakis finished second and third. But the MX2 finale really got the crowd on its feet as Quebec KTM rider Kaven Benoît won in spectacular fashion.

The Endurocross qualifier saw American KTM rider Mike Brown quickest, finishing first ahead of Kornel Nemeth (KTM) of Hungary and Bartosz Oblucki (Husqvarna) of Poland. Quebec rider Guy Giroux brought is Husqvarna home in fourth place.

The last chance MX1 qualifying heat race enabled Quebec rider Kaven Benoît (KTM) to shine as he led from the start to win with a seven-second lead. Marc-Antoine Généreux finished fourth. He also qualified his Kawasaki for the evening grand finale.

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Following the MX1 last chance race, the ATV Quads took to the track for their two qualifying races with the first one going to Pennsylvania Can-Am rider John Natalie, while the second heat race was won by Quebec rider Jasmin Plante who crossed the finish line ahead of his long-time rival Richard Pelchat of Lévis, Québec. Later that night in the ATV feature race, Natalie prevailed ahead of Pelchat and American Cody Miller. First out of the blocks, Plante fell of his ride in the first corner of the race, but continued at the rear of the field. Bobby Desjardins (KTM) of Ferme-Neuve, QC finished fourth.

The first evening final, a 12-lap race, featured 25 Canadian MX2 riders. Kaven Benoît of Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil (QC) outclassed the field to win by a five-second margin over of Ontario rider Tyler Medaglia (Yamaha). Tim Tremblay, who ran second for a while, brought his Kawasaki home in third place.

After the Freestylers, the spectacular endurocross finale crowned 38-year old American veteran Mike Brown who continued his domination on the rest of the field. The Midwest rider crossed the finish line with a lead of 17 seconds ahead of Nemeth and Oblucki. Best Quebec rider in EX was Guy Giroux who finished 10th.

In the MX1 final, the crowd enjoyed a three-way fight for first place between American riders: last year’s winner Jason Thomas, Nick Wey, who won in 2004, and Josh Demuth who led several before falling back to sixth place at the finish. Wey eventually held off the late race assaults of Teddy Maier, who charged to the forefront from his sixth place at the beginning of the race, to win his second career Montreal Supermotocross. Troy Adams of Florida went by Thomas on the last lap of the race to finish third. Best Quebec rider in the evening finale was Kaven Benoît (winner in MX2) who came in a distant 19th in MX1.

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