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PATTERSON
CROWNED
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n what turned out to be a dramatic finish to the Women's
Motocross Triple Crown, NFab/TiLUBE Yamaha's Jessica Patterson came away with
the championship at Southwick Moto-X 338 in Massachusetts on June 29.
Team Honda Muscle Milk's
Sayaka Kaneshiro carried
a 14-point lead into the final Jessica Patterson
round over Patterson and wrapped up the
looked to have a lock on the 2013 Women's
championship, but a fall while Motocross Triple
running second in the first Crown in dramatic
fashion.
moto was pretty much her
undoing. She went on to finish out the moto in seventh, while Patterson
claimed the moto win.
In the title-deciding second moto, Kaneshiro
still held a three-point advantage over Patterson, but it wouldn't be enough. Patterson went
on to win, while Kaneshiro finished third, giving
up five points to Patterson, who took the championship with two points to spare.
Rock River Yamaha's Mackenzie Tricker finished second overall at Southwick with a 2-2,
while Munn Racing KTM's Sara Pettersson
took third overall with a 4-4.
The Triple Crown was a fitting way for Patterson to finish out her motocross career. Patterson says she's going to change gears and
focus now on off-road racing and the GNCC
Championship.
NUMBERS GAME
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trange but true: After winning Saturday's
Dutch Grand Prix, Valentino Rossi has
scored 4646 points in World Championship
road racing, according to the official compiler
of MotoGP statistics Martin Raines.
