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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.