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finds a way to turn things around.
On Friday, Osborne out-dueled
Marvin Musquin and the hot/cold
Justin Barcia to win both motos.
And, on Monday, Osborne man-
aged to gain a few valuable points
on his nearest rivals— Musquin
and Tomac— going into the race
in the 450MX Championship,
despite losing ground to both of
them in the first moto. Osborne
on Monday with a 1-3, defending
champ Eli Tomac getting skunked,
rookie Chase Sexton getting on
the 450MX moto podium for the
first time, and Jeremy Martin
overtaking Dylan Ferrandis in the
250MX Championship.
After the first five of nine
rounds, Osborne can seem to
do no wrong. Even when things
appear to be not going his way, he
IIIMY OWN RACE:
said Monday. "I hit my shoulder and
my head, so it was not great for only
having two days to recover. It was
hard, but I had to deal with that, and
we saved some points in the cham-
pionship. Today, in the first moto we
had an incident with 'J Mart' [Jeremy
Mar n]. In the second moto, I got a
bad start again. We are ge ng a lot
of bad starts right now, so we need to
figure out what's wrong. I feel like I'm
the problem, not the bike because the
bike is really great, and the team is
doing a great job. We can see that all
of our bikes are always in front. So, I
need to fix that."
41 TY MASTERPOOL
8TH (3-13) / 8TH (4-13)
250MX
Ty Masterpool, who just returned to
racing from a broken leg, con nues
to show winning speed but li le
mistakes, that o en mes turn into
big mistakes, keep haun ng him. "The
starts have been good," the Monster
Energy/Star Racing Yamaha rider said.
"I kind of got the power-to-weight
ra o going for me, being 120 pounds.
I felt pre y good in the motos. I was
running up there. I just kind of made
some dumb li le mistakes here and
there. It's great to be back racing, and
I'm feeling pre y good for ge ng
released to race less than a week ago.
I've got the speed. I just want to stay
up front now and stop making those
small mistakes."
Adam Cianciarulo
(9) nearly captured
his first career
450MX overall
victory with a
perfect 1-1 on
Monday, but a
run-in with a lapper
in the second
moto while leading
prevented that
from happening. A
1-3 was still good
enough to get the
job done.
