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seemed to be the key to suc-
cess and Dungey was able to get
one, but Roczen wasn't as for-
tunate. The German rookie was
able to claw his way into second,
though, where he latched onto
Dungey and applied pressure for
a majority of the race.
"There were a few areas I could
hear him [Roczen] come up on
me," said Dungey. "You kind of
adjust to that and I'd switch my
lines. I actually tried quite a bit
of different stuff being out there
in the lead, which is unlike me to
do."
In the second moto, both
Dungey and Roczen were forced
to fight their way from starts out-
side the top five. Dungey seemed
to respond with a sense of urgen-
cy as he made a hard charge to-
ward the front with an incredible
pass on his teammate and a few
others on the opening lap.
"By the time the first lap went
Briefly...
in his pro debut after overcoming a
first-turn crash that held him back to
almost last in moto one.
A lot of hype surrounded AMA Ho-
rizon Award winner RJ Hampshire
as he entered the pro ranks on the
GEICO Honda team. After an up-
and-down day for the top-five hope-
ful, Hampshire ultimately finished-
13th overall after logging 11-16 moto
scores.
"I went down a couple times and
ended up 11
th
," he said. "The sec-
ond moto was even better. I was up
to fifth or sixth early, but I tucked the
front end and dropped back to 15th.
I raced back up to 11th or so and then
had a pretty big crash and ended up
back in 16th. It's good to get the jit-
ters out."
Following a 7-9 performance for
eighth overall in his home state, Phil
Nicoletti talked about Unadilla being
the final stop in his part-time gig with
the Toyota/JGRMX/Yamaha team.
The New York-native said, "It was
cool that they let me go out for open-
ing ceremonies in front of the home-
town crowd," he said. "It was unreal.
It's good to see everyone cheer and
see all the faces on the sidelines that
I grew up with. The second moto I
had an awesome start again, was
second or third, and I just mentally
and physically blew up after the half-
way mark. This was my last one but
I'm grateful the team let me do this
weekend and see all the hometown
crew so it's good."
There was a post-race drug test ad-
ministered for the top three overall in
each class and many riders spent a
good amount of time dealing with the
process, but it seems like they are
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