VOL. 51 ISSUE 1 JANUARY 7, 2014
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COLE SEELY: "I COULD TASTE IT"
second and had no hard feelings
towards Anderson, saying that he
would've done the same thing if
he were in his boots.
After a fantastic race-long
battle with Dean Wilson, GEICO
Honda's Zach Osborne was rewarded with a podium finish in
third.
"I'm super happy with the way
the day went," Osborne said.
Victory was just literally around
the corner for Lucas Oil/Troy Lee
Designs/Red Bull Honda's Cole
Seely in the 250 West main, but he
wouldn't get what would have been
his second career win at Anaheim.
After pulling out a small lead following a race-long battle with Jason
Anderson, Seely was headed to a
sure win with the last turn in sight
when lappers stalled his progress,
which was just enough to give Anderson the opportunity he needed
to make a dramatic and aggressive
pass on Seely to take the win.
"I got a good gap going on in
the middle of the race and just had
lapped riders getting in my way,"
Seely said. "It's tough going into a
turn or a rhythm section behind a
lapped rider and not hesitate. The
pace that Jason and I was going
was so fast that it just came down
to those lapped riders getting in my
way. It broke my pace a little bit,
which allowed him to catch up to
me. Going into the second-to-last
turn, I was staring at another lapper,
actually three lappers, and checked
up for them, because they were going to cut down, and before I know
it, Jason's front wheel is right there.
That is racing, I don't put any blame
on him, I would've done the same
thing.
"Second is really good," Seely
reasoned. "It's just the way second
came about. I could taste it, I was
going through the whoops, 'Yeah,
two more turns to go, this thing is
mine,' then that little moment. It's
just crazy. I'm just going to carry the
momentum into next weekend and
so on and try to get a title out of this
thing."
"But I felt way faster than what I match with Wilson. "That allowed
showed in the main.
[Anderson and Seely] to pull
"We went back and forth so away from us."
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hard and I wanted to race him
clean, so we were really in a bat450 MAIN
tle," Osborne said of his grudge
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