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while Osborne hung on for second
in the moto in the wet conditions.
Third ended up going to 2019
Supercross Champion Cooper
Webb, with the Red Bull KTM racer
hanging tough there throughout the
race.
Where was Monster Energy
Kawasaki's defending champ Eli
Tomac, you ask? He gated outside
the top 10, and then had a vision/
goggle malfunction that forced him
to enter the mechanics' area for a
fresh pair of goggles. After all of
that, he fought his way forward un-
til he passed Dean Ferris (Monster
Energy Yamaha) for fifth with a few
laps left, then put on a charge and
may have caught Osborne's team-
mate Jason Anderson in fourth if
not for getting stuck in a rut on the
penultimate lap.
Ferris hung on for sixth ahead
of Blake Baggett (Rocky Moun-
tain ATV-MC KTM), and then
Marvin Musquin, who went down
in the second turn and came from
39th to eighth at the finish.
Webb got the holeshot in moto
two, but he's been struggling with
his motorcycle's outdoor settings,
and he went backward, eventu-
ally finishing eighth. Roczen took
the lead from Webb early on, but
Tomac soon joined Roczen up
front, and the two sprinted away
from the rest of the field. By the
time Tomac found a line around
Roczen for the lead, the pair had
about 20 seconds on Musquin in
third. Once Tomac got by Roc-
zen, he put in one of his signature
sprint laps to break Roczen's will
to chase him, and went on to win
the moto going away. Roczen
cruised in for second, taking the
overall, while Musquin, Osborne,
Anderson, Justin Barcia, Baggett,
Webb, Ferris and Justin Bogle
rounded out the top 10.
Roczen took his second overall
win of the season and took the
red plate back from Tomac as the
series heads to round four in two
weeks at High Point Raceway in
Mt. Morris, Pennsylvania.
"It's great," Roczen said. "I
Blake Baggett (4) leads
Cooper Webb (2),
Marvin Musquin (25),
Ken Roczen (94), Zach
Osborne (16) and the
rest of the 450MX pack
into the second moto.
Ken Roczen shows that he's in it to win it with his second win of 2019
