A crowd of more than 45,000 at Angel Stadium in Los Angeles saw Suzuki’s Davi Millsaps win the opening race of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship on Saturday night.

Millsaps picked up the holeshot award with Honda’s Trey Canard and his team-mate Justin Barcia following in second and third respectively. Two-time defending 450SX class champion Ryan Villopoto started in 12th place.

On lap eight, while working his way through the field, Villopoto crashed and dropped several positions before re-entering the race. Red Bull KTM’s Ryan Dungey, held down the fourth position and began making up time on Barcia, but on lap 15, he crashed in a turn.

After waiting patiently for 16 laps, Canard made his move around Millsaps for the lead, and on the same lap, Barcia suffered a crash. Millsaps made a last-ditch effort on Canard, zipping through the whoops around Canard for the win. Canard finished second and Dungey finished third.

“It was a great night for me,” said Millsaps. “This is my first win since 2010, and I was just trying to keep calm out there. It has been a long time since I have led a race, so it was hard to calm my nerves.”

Australian Chad Reed finished the night in fourth place after a solid but lonley ride in 5th place for the majority of the race, picking up one spot in the dying laps when Justin Barcia made a mistake and crashed.

Privateer Daniel McCoy put in a solid effort in both his heat race and the LCQ, however some bad luck seen him miss the main event.

Honda’s Cole Seely, opened the 250SX Class Main Event with the Nuclear Cowboyz Holeshot. Following turn one, he was one of several riders, including Heat Race winner Martin Davalos (Kawasaki), that were involved in a crash.

Tomac, the defending 250SX class champion, took over the lead as Malcolm Stewart, moved into second followed by Ken Roczen, in third.

On lap one, Roczen, who rides for the Red Bull KTM team, passed Stewart for second place. After winning the holeshot, Seely dropped to fourth place, but passed Stewart on lap 6 to secure third place.

Tomac’s win marked the eighth of his career. Roczen finished second and Seely finished third.

“I had a tough Heat Race, and that was kind of a wake-up call for me,” said Tomac. “This is how I wanted to start the season. I did a few off-season races, like the Monster Energy Cup, and that kept me in shape.”

Monster Energy Supercross will take place next Saturday night at Phoenix’s Chase Field.

450SX Class round one results and points standings

1. David Millsaps – 25 Pts
2. Trey Canard – 22 Pts
3. Ryan Dungey – 20 Pts
4. Chad Reed – 18 Pts
5. Jake Weimer – 16 Pts
6. Andrew Short – 15 Pts
7. Justin Barcia – 14 Pts
8. James Stewart – 13 Pts
9. Justin Brayton – 12 Pts
10. Kevin Windham – 11 Pts
11. Joshua Grant – 10 Pts
12. Matthew Goerke – 9 Pts
13. Kyle Chisholm – 8 Pts
14. Weston Peick – 7 Pts
15. Matthew Lemoine – 6 Pts
16. Ryan Villopoto- 5 Pts
17. Vince Friese – 4 Pts
18. Broc Tickle Holly – 3 Pts
19. Robert Kiniry – 2 Pts
20. Mike Alessi – 1 Pts

Western Regional 250SX class results and points standings

1 Eli Tomac – 25 Pts
2 Ken Roczen – 22 Pts
3 Cole Seely – 20 Pts
4 Jason Anderson – 18 Pts
5 Malcolm Stewart – 16 Pts
6 Ryan Sipes – 15 Pts
7 Zach Osborne – 14 Pts
8 Tyla Rattray – 13 Pts
9 Max Anstie – 12 Pts
10 Michael Leib – 11 Pts
11 Kyle Cunningham – 10 Pts
12 Christian Craig – 9 Pts
13 Joey Savatgy – 8 Pts
14 Blake Baggett – 7 Pts
15 Travis Baker – 6 Pts
16 Austin Politelli – 5 Pts
17 Jean Ramos Curitiba – 4 Pts
18 Jessy Nelson – 3 Pts
19 Jake Canada – 2 Pts