MOTOCROSS
RED BULL STRAIGHT RHY THM
OCTOBER 5, 2019
L A COUNT Y FAIRGROUNDS / POMONA, CALIFORNIA
P82
125cc
In the 125cc class, Joey Crown
owned the action all night, quali-
fying first, and then moving past
Carlen Gardner ("Jessy Nelson")
and AJ Catanzaro ("Travis Pastra-
na") to move into the final, where
he faced off against Michael Leib
("Ernesto Fonseca") and won.
Young talent Max Vohland
crashed out of the event in the
semi-finals trying to beat Leib and
walked off with what appeared
to be a hurt shoulder. Catanzaro
took third overall.
"It's pretty sweet that Red Bull
puts this on, being that it's a one-
off race, and the two-strokes add
a lot more fun to it. Everyone has
a good time building the bikes and
HANSEN WITH HONDA
Josh Hansen has been doing a lot
of testing with Honda, along with
former factory racer Trey Canard,
so he was at least happy that Ken
Roczen won. "I help out Kenny
[Roczen]'s whole deal, so that's my
guy," Hansen said. "As much as I'm
racing against him, I don't want to
see him get hurt. That's my dude.
I love Kenny. I love to see him win-
ning championships. So, I'm glad
he won tonight, if it couldn't be me!
It's been a good thing. Honda's
really helped me and stepped in to
make me one of the family and try
to help out their deal, and it's a re-
ally healthy situation. I'm excited to
be a part of that whole program."
ROCZEN RECOVERING
Ken Roczen has been dealing with
an illness all year, but he says he
hopes things are looking up after
he got to take some time off. "It'll
be interesting to see once I start
legitimately training hard, and see
where recovery is at," Roczen
said. "So, I guess we'll see. I fly to
Florida on Friday to start my legit
training the following Monday, so
I guess we'll see how everything
goes from there. Because when I'm
not doing anything, I feel okay now,
but it'll be interesting to see how I
feel later. Throughout the season,
I'm never not doing anything, so it's
hard to know how it's going to go
when I start training again, and see
if it relapses or not. We'll see!"
Briefly...
AJ Catanzaro (left)
took third on a Travis
Pastrana-replica Suzuki
but look closely, that's
not a Suzuki.
