said. "Not mental mistakes, but
me focusing on a lapper and not
paying attention to the line I'm
in and tipping over. I was pretty
bummed out and it pissed me
off, so I just dropped the ham
-
mer after that. I knew I still had
the speed to win."
Hunter Lawrence is do
-
ing everything he can to keep
Sexton from sealing the deal on
tive fast laps and found himself
back on Lawrence's rear fender.
Sexton made the pass with five
laps to go, running away with
the moto win and the eventual
overall, extending his streak to
five in a row. He's now 28 points
clear of second place Lawrence
heading into the finale.
"Both my crashes today were
just stupid mistakes," Sexton
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24 RJ HAMPSHIRE
9TH (9-8) 250MX
RJ Hampshire made his Pro Moto-
cross debut after recovering from a
wrist injury sustained at press day
of round one. "It was so good to get
some gate drops in," Hampshire said.
"I knew I wasn't 100 percent to come
out here and battle for the win or a
podium, but there's no practice like a
race, so that's what we came to do.
It wasn't too bad, I don't think we're
far off, and I expect to be better in
Indiana. The goal is to be the best I
can be once we get to Charlotte for
SMX, so all in all, I'm happy to be
leaving here healthy and look forward
to next week."
32 JUSTIN COOPER
10TH (20-4) 450MX
Justin Cooper suffered a huge crash
off the start of moto one but salvaged
a 20th. He later rebounded for fourth
in moto two. "I had a racing incident
in the first moto right after the start. It
definitely knocked the wind out of me
and took the wind out of my sails, but
I came home with one point in 20th.
In the second moto, I got a pretty
good start from the outside. I was in
sixth or seventh and worked my way
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