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Cycle News Issue 29 July 24

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MOTOCROSS LUCAS OIL AMA PRO MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIPS ROUND 8 / JUNE 21, 2018 MILLVILLE, MINNESOTA / SPRING CREEK MX P70 have fun here. The past couple years haven't been awesome but this year we were on it." Tomac now leads the cham- pionship by seven points over Musquin, while Barcia sits almost 50 points behind Musquin and just eight points in front of Roc- zen as the series heads down the stretch. gets the red plate back on his motorcycle, while Roczen was second overall (2-3) and Musquin third (4-2). Baggett (3-4) and Barcia (5-5) rounded out the top five overall. "I had so much motivation from last weekend, the way that went," Tomac said. "I was just spun up today. I was ready to go. I always took the moto lead with just three laps left to go, then went on to win by about seven seconds over Musquin, Roczen, Baggett, Barcia, Peick, Hill, Bloss, Webb and Nicoletti. Then came Miller and Bogle, marking Bogle's best moto finish of the year so far. And just like that, with his 1-1 performance on the day, Tomac 250MX Aaron Plessinger might have finally hit his stride. Prior to the Spring Creek MX National in Millville, Minnesota, Plessinger had won three rounds of the 2018 Lucas Oil AMA 250cc Pro Motocross Championships, all with 1-1 scores, but in the other four rounds of racing, Plessinger had only scored two podium moto finishes and had failed to string together two overall wins in a row. Until today. Plessinger was dominant at the last round at RedBud, and after a weekend off, he came out looking like the same guy at Aaron Plessinger was stoked to pull off another dominant performance in the 250MX class. PHOTOGRAPHY BY MONSTER MEDIA

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