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went 1-1-4-2 over the weekend.
For Tomac, the defending
450MX champ, the RedBud dou-
bleheader did not go as planned,
even though he rode well for the
most part. Over the two days of
racing, he lost ground to Os-
borne in three out of the four
motos but the real downer for him
and his Monster Energy Kawa-
saki team was getting caught up
in a massive bottleneck off the
start and going down in the sec-
ond 450MX moto Monday. That
resulted in a disastrous seventh
place.
Osborne now leads runner-up
Musquin (2-6-3-4), by 28 points
and new third-place holder Cian-
ciarulo (5-3-1-3) by 42 points.
Tomac's chances to retain the
number-one plate are slipping
away after going 4-5-2-7 at Red-
Bud. He now trails Osborne by
47 points with four rounds left in
the nine-race championship.
In the 250MX class, Jeremy
Martin overtook points leader
Dylan Ferrandis on Friday after
winning both motos and Fer-
randis going 7-3, which included
a hard crash in the first moto
that resulted in a sore shoulder
and a stinger to the head for the
Frenchman. Martin also won
Monday's second moto but an
11th in the first moto after a con-
troversial run-in with Ferrandis
resulted in the Geico Honda rider
losing a few points overall to Fer-
randis in the championship. How-
ever, the former 250MX champ,
Martin, still leads the Monster
Energy/Star Racing Yamaha
IIIMY OWN RACE:
"Zach [Osborne] got the starts today
and that seems to be where I fell
behind," said Tomac Friday. "Everyone
was really close in pace, so I wasn't
able to come up through the pack like
I normally am able to. I was doing
everything I could, and I would run
up on the end of the train at the end
of the moto, but that wasn't good
enough."
4 BLAKE BAGGETT
8TH (10-7) / 2ND (6-1)
450MX
"It seems like the days you try so hard
you're in the back of the pack and are
lucky to get a top 10," Blake Bagge
said a er his second-moto win Mon-
day. "[Today] it was just coming to
me, and I'm going to take it, for sure.
It feels good to get a moto win. I've
been around for a long me, I'm get-
ng older, and I'll take every one I can
get toward the end, for sure. Things
were just connec ng; I was star ng
to doubt myself a li le bit, I haven't
been up front in a long me. I have
speed and I've qualified good, but I
haven't been able to put it together.
I had a li le devil on my shoulder
that was doub ng me, but once I got
there, things were happening, and
they started to happen slower and
slower. I knew when I got that feeling,
when things start happening slow, you
start going fast. I was like, 'All right,
maybe we can get this done and get
back up there.'"
(Left) Eli Tomac was already
having tough weekend before
this happened in the very last
moto. On a track that was
difficult to pass on, Tomac still
worked his way up to seventh
by moto's end. (Below) Even
when he got sixth in the first
450MX moto Monday, Blake
Baggett was consistently
laying down the quickest laps
in the race. The same thing
happened in the second moto
but this time he got the win.
It was vintage Baggett in the
second moto.
