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of his 450cc National career.
Tomac's closest championship
rival, Webb's teammate Marvin
Musquin, went down on the
opening lap and found himself
face-down underneath his KTM
and had to wait for track work-
ers to get the motorcycle off his
back. He remounted dead last
before fighting his way all the way
back up to seventh at the finish. It
was a heroic effort, but the crash
ultimately cost him a lot of points
to Tomac in the title chase.
Rockstar Energy Husqvarna's
Jason Anderson ended up
second in the moto after passing
Bogle, and then Webb for sec-
ond, around the halfway point.
Webb made it easy for Anderson
when he stalled his motorcycle.
Webb was third over Bogle, who
fought off advances from Honda
son, who qualified second overall
but had his fastest time taken away
for jumping on a red-cross flag. "I
qualified second, but I got my lap
docked, so I was seventh," Ander-
son said. (Actually, he was sixth.) In
the 250MX class, Adam Cianciarulo
was docked two positions in the
first moto for two separate off-track
excursions, and in both cases, he
definitely did not get off the throttle
as required by AMA rules. "The first
moto, there's no doubt about it, on
the first lap, I was a little bit squir-
relly," Cianciarulo said. "From my
point of view, when you go off the
track there on the first lap, I felt that
Dylan [Ferrandis] pushed me off the
track; which is fine! It's motocross.
No problem. But their argument was
that I needed to slow down more,
but what happens when I slow down
more and then I jump back on the
track in front of everybody else
doing 60 miles an hour? So, that's
kind of my thing. And the second
time I went off the track, I almost
crashed, I kind of got pretty close
to Joey Crown, so I get that, for
sure, and that wasn't too cool of
me." Ultimately, those two positions
cost him four championship points,
but he still leads by a full moto, 25
points over RedBud winner Dylan
Ferrandis.
FERRIS OUT
Monster Energy Yamaha's fill-in
racer Dean Ferris "mutually agreed
to part ways" with the team before
the RedBud National. The multi-time
Australian MX Champ and former
MX GP race winner was eighth in
points after Southwick, the halfway
point in the series, but rumor has
it he felt he wasn't given enough
Briefly...
Jason Anderson (21) came oh-so-close to getting his first 450MX overall win.
