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Cycle News 2024 Issue 10 March 12

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VOLUME ISSUE MARCH , P69 Webb kept the gap close and matched Lawrence's fastest laps down to one-hundredth of a second but just couldn't make up ground during the rest of the main event. A strong second place still keeps him in the points chase, and he is now 13 back from the top spot. "I could see him [Lawrence] this weekend, so that was a positive," Webb said. "I feel like that main event we were both riding really, really good, and there wasn't much more to give or take. I think on lap three or four, I missed the fast rhythm; there's half a second or a second. He [Lawrence] is a great starter, so that doesn't make it any easier. I would try lap after lap to try and get my lap time down, and I would—a tenth here, a tenth there— and one lap, my board said half a sec - ond; I caught him. But then he sees that and is able to match. It's a chess game at this point." Ken Roczen landed on the box in third. The Suzuki rider must've missed the memo that the track was hard to pass on because he started outside the top five before making his way to the front. A series of key passes around defending champ Chase Sex - ton and later Justin Cooper put "Kick- start Kenny" into podium position. "I did a lot of passes, but I got held up—the longest was behind Justin Cooper," Roczen said. "It also takes to ditch the whoops in hopes of sparing the riders a one-lined bal- ance beam down the center. With- out the whoops, there were fewer obstacles separating the riders, and the racing seemed closer during every gate drop. "The ruts made up for the no whoops," Roczen said in the post-race press conference. SCHOCKED Coty Schock was left with a broken collarbone after the last-lap run-in with Haiden Deegan for seventh place. "The awkward landing unfor- tunately broke his [Coty's] collar- bone," the Club/MX team reported. "He was officially scored in eighth place, and the evening went from being amazing to rock-bottom. The team spent Saturday night making arrangements to get Coty sched- uled for surgery this week. At this point, there is no scheduled date for his return to racing, and what was an amazing story is unfortunately on the shelf for now." Briefly... Tom Vialle won his second 250SX Supercross in as many weeks.

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