VOL. 50 ISSUE 39 OCTOBER 1, 2013
chased him until about six laps
into the 19-lap moto, and then
Tomac went by Dungey and continued forward. Roczen took over
the lead at about the same time,
and was passed with six laps to
go by Italy's Antonio Cairoli, who
went on to take the victory.
"I slipped on the start and was
pretty bad around the middle
group, 15 or 16 our first lap,"
Cairoli said. "Then I could make
some good passes and come
back to the top. But Ken [Roczen] was a little bit already in the
lead, so we had some free way in
front and we had some good gap.
I tried to make some fast laps and
come close to him. When I was in
Justin Barcia topped
the Open class
despite a secondmoto first-turn fall.
the back of him, he made a little
mistake on the corner and I could
pass him on the outside. Yeah, I
just pulled away a little bit and
made as much points as possible
for Italy."
A man on a mission, Tomac
chased Roczen down, and with
four laps to go, Tomac went for
a pass on his AMA rival, but instead of going by Roczen, he
went down in a very big way.
"It was just after the start line
there and then going up the big
single, I just went a little too fast
and got cross-rutted and it kind of
ripped the bars out of my hands,"
Tomac said. "At that point, I was
just kind of rolling up the windows
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Briefly...
pretty apparent chassis-setting issues on Sunday, as did Ryan Dungey, and quite a few other GP strangers. However, Ferris led the team to
a fourth-place finish overall by virtue
of two holeshots on his YZ250F and
4-5 moto scores. Waters struggled
with poor starts, but he'll have plenty
of opportunity to improve those in
the GPs next year.
Todd Waters was dominant in this
year's Australian MX Nationals until he broke his collarbone about
3/4 through the series, but he still
finished second in that title chase
Down Under. He's joining Tyla Rattray on the newly re-formed Husqvarna racing team for 2014. With Husky
now owned by KTM, they're making
a push in the 2014 GPs to establish themselves. Our understanding
is that the engine will start out very
similar to KTM's, but will take its own
path in R&D, but the chassis should
be essentially different from the
KTMs built under the same ownership.
