VOL. 51 ISSUE 30 JULY 29, 2014 P39
I actually woke up, because I'm
on Florida time, so I woke up at
like 5:45, bug-eyed, an hour be-
fore my alarm. I was like, 'Man,
this is not good.' But I felt good;
felt fresh. Had breakfast, coffee,
hung out. Second practice went
really good. I made a couple
changes in the middle there and
ended up with the fastest time
and that was nice. I just felt really
good going into the racing."
They say that you can practice
starts as much as you want, but
ultimately, the best way to get
a good start in motocross is to
believe you should be up front.
Horsepower helps, too.
Briefly...
2:29, 2:33, 2:36, 2:37...all the way
to a 2:40 near the end of the race.
He stayed out on the track for the en-
tire moto to garner 15th in the moto,
despite looking very out of sorts. The
team stated that Pourcel scared him-
self with a couple of close calls, but
looking at how his bike was acting in
the Washougal whoops heading to
the finish line, it seems possible that
he had some major chassis setup is-
sue in moto two.
GEICO Honda's Justin Bogle re-
bounded nicely after suffering a
scary crash the weekend before at
Millville. He ended seventh in the
first moto and led the first nine laps
of the second moto before crashing
and finishing third for fifth overall. "I
came in here pretty wounded from
a hard get-off last weekend and I
wasn't able to ride at all during the
week," Bogle said. "My back and
side are still limiting what I can do.
Two motos, two get-offs, that can't
happen if I want to stay up front, es-
pecially when you're already banged
up." He added that he's definitely
looking forward to the one weekend
break in the series.
Oregon's Matt Bisceglia was hop-
ing for a breakout ride at Washou-
gal but he had to be satisfied with
13-12 (13th overall) results. "I'm in
a slump," the GEICO Honda rider
said. "There's no way around it. I'm
in a slump and I don't know why. I'm
riding a lot during the week, my fit-
ness is there, but I just can't get re-
sults. This happened to me before at
the amateur level and I know it'll end
at some point. I also know the only
thing you can do is keep after it.
After dominating
both 250 motos,
Marvin Musquin
made it a
KTM sweep at
Washougal.
