SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
TEUTSCHENTHAL CIRCUIT/TEUTSCHENTHAL, GERMANY
MOTOCROSS
P48
2013 67TH MONSTER ENERGY MOTOCROSS OF NATIONS
Eli Tomac was hauling in Germany.
Unfortunately for Team USA, he
crashed after having reeled in Roczen
in the first MX2 moto.
and hoping I was landing okay."
Although Tomac wasn't injured, and perhaps even more remarkably his bike wasn't bent up
at all, he couldn't get his GEICO
Honda CRF250R to fire back up
for quite some time and ended
up finishing 16th in the moto.
Dungey struggled to sixth
place, behind Cairoli, Roczen,
Searle, Ferris, and France's
Gautier Paulin. Belgium's Van
Horebeek and De Dycker finished right on Dungey's tail in
seventh and eighth.
"That first moto, I was going
good in the beginning, but I kept
struggling with arm pump the
whole weekend," Roczen said.
"So I didn't really feel too comfortable."
Moto 2: MX2+Open
Team USA couldn't afford to have
another bad moto, and the hope
was that Tomac's 16th-place finish from moto one would be the
team's one throwaway moto.
Tomac lined up to the inside,
while Team USA's Open racer,
Justin Barcia, took the outside
gate pick.
Ferris landed another remarkable holeshot, but this time had
two 250s right on his tail in the
form of Roczen and Tomac. Roc-
zen found his way by first, but
Tomac went by soon thereafter,
and the two of them just plain
took off.
Barcia took over the third spot
not too long after that, but he was
powerless to stop the two dueling
250s. Over the ensuing 19 laps,
Tomac gained on Roczen, then
lost ground again, then gained
again, as if attached by a bungee
cord. In the final few laps, Tomac
made one more push at Roczen,
but Roczen refused to budge
in front of his home crowd, and
Roczen took the win by a halfsecond over Tomac.
"In that second moto, I think
that it was a really good one,"
Roczen said. "I mean, we had
