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Bonirace
went
down hard in the
rhythm
section,
taking
Hansen out in the
Process.
"lt's
happened
to me before, so
I know
what block-passing
is all about,"
Grant
said.
"lt
was
a bad
part
on me, though.
I let
two
Euys
go
by and
let
Hansen
8o
by
Nvice
It wasnt a
good move,
but I ended up
tak-
inS the lead after
Bonilace
started fliPping
"
The crash
with Boniface
wmPPed
Hansen's
brake
pedal
back
under his
frame,
and he ended
up with
a l6th-Place
Iinish after
spending time
in the
mechan-
ics'area.
The KTM
pilot was
visibly uPset.
"l
8ot
a
second-pla€e
start, behind
Josh
Grant,
and
went to make
a move
on him
and
he
pulls his little
move - brake-checks
me. and
then
looks back,"
Hansen
said.
"Then
Boniface
went
to triple
in the
rhythm section
and endoed.
I hit
him
and
saved it, but
it screwed
up
my bike
and
that
was that."
Millsaps and
Grant
manaSed
to avoid
rhe eveninS
in the
hospital,.losh
Grant
returned
to action
in Atlanta
s Georgia
Dome,
where
the SoBe/Samsung
Mobile/Honda
rider
took his
first-ever
Supercross
win at the
second
round of
the
Amp'd
Mobile AMA SX
Lites
Eastern
Regional
Supercross
Series.
Grant's
win
didn't come easily
or
with-
out some
controversy,
though,
as
he and
Red Bull
KTM's.losh
Hansen
went at each
other
for the
firct wvo laps of
rhe
main
event in a bumP-and-bash
contest.
Team
Honda's
Davi MillsaPs
and
BooKoo/
HoliSan
Honda's
Steve
Boniface
were in
the mix as well. while
Glant
and Hansen
traded
block-passes.
But
on laP three,
after
Boniface
had taken
the lead,
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him crash
out
of
contention
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