GEICO AMA ENDUROCROSS SERIES
OFF ROAD
ROUND 2/JUNE 6, 2014
CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS/AUSTIN, TEXAS
P88
BY SEAN FINLEY
PHOTOGRAPHY DREW RUIZ
P
oland's Taddy Blazusiak
added a fourth Enduro X
Gold medal to his collec-
tion with an exciting win at the
inaugural Austin X Games. He
struggled to find his rhythm in
practice, set only the 10th fast-
est time during the hot laps and
crashed while leading the main
event but recovered from all of
that to take a narrow win.
American Cody Webb recov-
ered from his own mistake early
in the race to pass two riders in
the closing laps to take the silver
medal. Spain's Alfredo Gomez
rounded out the podium on his
factory Husqvarna.
Husqvarna's Mike Brown took
the holeshot but was quickly
passed by Blazusiak to start the
first lap. Brown then made an
aggressive pass in the first rock
section to re-take the lead be-
fore going down in the second
rock section. This gave Blazu-
siak the lead with Webb, Gomez
and Colton Haaker close behind.
Webb then got hung up in the
second rock section and held
up the entire field, which gave
Blazusiak a large lead. Haaker,
on the Lucas Oil/Rockstar/JCR
Honda took over second and
was closing rapidly when Blazu-
siak crashed. Haaker was then
on Blazsuiak's back wheel and
the two riders battled back and
forth for several laps.
Haaker made his move when
Taddy Blazusiak did
it the hard way and
came away with the
Gold medal at the
Austin X Games in
EnduroCross.
BLAZUSIAK
WRANGLES
ANOTHER
GOLD
TADDY
BLAZUSIAK
FIGHTS FOR
GOLD AT
X GAMES
ENDUROCROSS
