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Villopoto . Villopoto finished 1-2 that day to wrap up the title , while Townley ( with 2-1 moto scores ) settled for the runner-up spot for 2007 , the two team-mates remarkably finishing the 24-race series nearly 200 points clear of the next-best riders that year – Josh Grant , Jason Lawrence and Ryan Dungey . A big crash at the 2007 season-ending Motocross of Nations at Budd ’ s Creek , south of
Washington DC , heralded two seasons of agony for Townley , as injuries kept him out of the sport . But he made a successful return to the race track in 2010 , his two most significant results that year being moto victories at both the USGP and the Motocross of Nations in Denver , Colorado . He also finished fourth overall in the AMA Open Class in that 2010 season ( won that year by Dungey ).
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