Last week I commented on how dominant RC is already looking in the 2005 AMA 250 Supercross series and predicted he would run away with the series. Well, I’ll start this week off by talking about Kawasaki’s Ivan Tedesco and his performance thus far in the 125 series.

With three races in the bag, Tedesco is proving to be consistently fast. Like RC on the big bike, Tedesco has appeared remarkably smooth throughout the race weekends while still running a pace the other riders are having trouble matching. The major contenders thus far (Short, Hepler, Ramsey and Sipes) have had moments of impressive riding but always appear a little ragged. At this early stage in the series, I think Tedesco can comfortably run a pace that pushes the other riders to the ragged edge when they try to match it. As a result they are missing their jumps, running wide on corner entrance, loosing traction on corner exit or just plain crashing.

The 125 series has been so dominated by Stewart over the past few seasons that other talented riders have been just off the radar. It appears that Ivan is now showing he is deserving of that attention for this season and hopes to put his own stamp of dominance on the series for 2005.

While I don’t think the 125 series will be a Tedesco riding clinic, I do think he’s showing he’s a notch above the rest of the riders straight out of the gate. I hope the others can make the leap necessary to challenge him as it will make the 125 class a more exciting race class than the supposedly main event 250 “Carmichael show”.

[image from the MX web site.]