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Cycle News 2014 Issue 33 August 19 2014

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VOL. 51 ISSUE 33 AUGUST 19, 2014 P59 Racing KTM's Joey Savatgy in fourth, his best moto finish of the season. He would do it one bet- ter later. Savatgy's teammate Ja- son Anderson came home fifth. Nelson got another great start in the second 250 moto, but this track even made the best of rid- ers look bad at times. Nelson was up to nearly a four-second lead when on the fourth lap he fell over right into a big plastic corner marker. The fall messed up his rhythm and Nelson nev- er seemed to recover. Savatgy came up and passed Nelson right at the finish-line jump. Nel- son eventually fell back to eighth. Savatgy held the number-one spot in the middle sections of the moto, but the French pair of Musquin and Christophe Pourcel were not far behind. Musquin got by to take over the lead and then late in the moto Pourcel moved through as well. The moto came down to the fi- nal lap with Pourcel charging and closing fast on Musquin. Pourcel came up just 6-10ths of a sec- ond short at the checkered flag. Savatgy was 10 seconds back in third. Baggett recovered from a

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