IIIMY OWN RACE:
other guys went down. With about two
turns to go, I was in third on the last lap.
That's the best I've felt racing in a while,
so it was a really good night."
94 KEN ROCZEN
2ND 450SX
"For me to be able to win tonight, I had
to be a lot be er in the whoops," Ken
Roczen said. "I was just struggling there
the en re race, so that didn't help me
out; I feel like I lost all my me there. I
was trying to skim them, then went to
jumping them, which was horrible, too; I
lost a lot of ground so went back to skim-
ming and just was all over the place, and
that was where Eli [Tomac] made up a
lot of me and closed in on me. We defi-
nitely have some work to do but don't
want to get too crazy. We just need to
keep doing what we're doing. We're in a
good spot right now and we just have to
keep it up. First last weekend and second
this weekend, plus the red plate is really
great. I'm really happy."
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well all year, grabbed the holeshot
over his 16-year-old teammate Jett
Lawrence, but Lawrence took the
lead away from Craig and spent
most of the race looking like a
seasoned veteran as he pulled
away out front.
In the meantime, defending
champ Dylan Ferrandis (Monster
Energy/ Star Racing Yamaha)
was working his way up from a
mid-pack start. Ferrandis got
around St. Louis winner Austin
Forkner (Monster Energy/Pro Cir-
Barcia (Monster Energy Yamaha),
and Osborne/Anderson's third
teammate Dean Wilson.
With a second-place at A2,
Roczen pulled into the points lead
by three points over Barcia, with
Tomac another two points back in
third with 14 rounds still left to run.
250SX west
The 250SX West main event at
Anaheim 2 will be talked about for
years. Geico Honda's Christian
Craig, who has been riding very
really physically demanding track.
I'm just thankful to be back up
here fighting for some wins."
The Rockstar Energy Husqvar-
na duo of Zach Osborne and
Jason Anderson rounded out the
top five, just in front of Tomac's
teammate Adam Cianciarulo, who
ran as high as fourth earlier in the
main event. Behind Cianciarulo
came Roczen's teammate Justin
Brayton, Smartop/Bullfrog Spas/
Motoconcepts Honda's Malcolm
Stewart, round-one winner Justin
