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event] two and three."
Tomac now leads the cham-
pionship by seven points over
Roczen, 181-174, while Webb—
officially 12th on the night—is
precisely one full main event
behind, with 155 points. But
with his status up in the air, this
championship may have just be-
come a two-horse race between
Tomac and Roczen.
some goofy mistakes there.
These Triple Crowns are really
tough—to go out there and do all
three main events, and be the
guy; after the first one, it was
just like, 'Man... Fifth place?'
And you see Ken [Roczen] win
it, and it's tough to go back out
there and fight, but you've got
two left, so thankfully, we were
able to get those 'ones' in [main
had worked his way into the top
five in the first main event when he
crashed while running fourth. From
there, his night came apart. He
ended up with 11-20-19 scores due
mainly to crashes. He should be on
the line in Atlanta, though.
BRIAN MOREAU
INJURY UPDATE
Last week, in what would've been
his first race for the TLD/Red Bull
KTM team, 18-year-old French
racer Brian Moreau went down
in practice and fractured his C7
vertebra and was rushed to a local
Tampa hospital. Luckily, the young
Frenchman had Marvin Musquin's
wife, Mathilde, at his side to help
with the American hospital and
staff. From the information released
since the accident, the bad news
is that Moreau doesn't have feeling
or movement in his legs. The silver
lining to this is that Moreau's spinal
cord has not been cut, but rather
compressed, so there's swelling
in his spine that seems likely to
be the culprit causing his current
paralysis. The hope is that as this
swelling goes down, he will regain
all of the feeling and movement that
he has lost. Surgery has already
been done to stabilize the fractured
C7 vertebra, and no matter what,
chances are his recovery will be
a long one. The Road 2 Recovery
Foundation has set up a fundraiser
to help Moreau with his medical
bills and related expenses, and
they're hoping to raise $200,000
for him. The link can be found here.
https://road2recovery.com/cause-
view/brian-moreau/
Briefly...
Justin Barcia (51)
is barely hanging
on in the race
for the 450SX
championship. He
finished a solid
fourth overall but
needs to work on
his starts to be a
real threat.
(Left) Defending champ Cooper Webb suffered an ugly get-off in the
second feature race and retired early with a bruised pelvis.
