WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
VOL. 52 ISSUE 8 FEBRUARY 24, 2015 P63
nally, I was able to do something
with that."
Reed was solid for the entire
20 laps, but that didn't keep him
from worrying about Dungey at
the end of the race.
"Five laps to go, it started to
set in that I can really pull this
thing off," said Reed. "I kind of
started to ride a little tight and
just said, 'hey, man, you've gone
this far, you can't throw it away
now.' That would be my typical
Atlanta ride. I stuck with it."
DUNGEY'S PULLING AWAY
Dungey boosted his points lead
to 25 with his runner-up finish,
and the Red Bull KTM rider
came close to running Reed
down near the end, closing the
gap to about one second at
one point, but inconsistent runs
through the whoops kept that
from happening and Reed held
on for the win.
"It was a cat-and-mouse
thing," said Dungey. "I would
gain a little on him, but then if I
didn't hit the whoops just right I
would lose ground to him."
Trey Canard was third, the
Team Honda HRC rider the vic-
tim of a poor start. Canard was
10
th
at the end of lap one, and
worked his way into fourth by lap
five, behind Reed, Weston Peick
and Dungey.
On lap 10, Canard snuck un-
der Peick to take over third, but
by then he was too far down to
catch the two front-runners.
RED WAVE
"Bad start again which is a
bummer but just tried to make
moves," said Canard. "I was
riding really aggressive. I think
you have to when you're that
far back. I did the best that I
could and, once I got into third,
Briefly...
pretty obvious all day that the outside
lane was not up to par, so we ended
up just racing that same line every
lap. I think it's something that maybe
they just work on and try to make a
little more fair next time."
Weston Peick added his two cents
on the split lane, as well. "When
they make a two-lane option like that
and don't make them fair enough
to where people can run both op-
tions, it's kind of stupid because ev-
erybody's going to funnel down the
one section," said Peick. "When you
make a whoops section like that, it's
obviously going to get beat down
and just have one group down the
middle. It just gets super sketchy
and it starts to get dangerous. Other
than that it was just kind of a little
sketchy, but it wasn't bad."
For the second week in a row, Eli
Tomac crashed during the main
event, this time the GEICO Honda
went down in the slippery midsection
of the track and ended up cutting his
right arm, which later required stitch-
es. He still remounted and finished
the race in 20th place. Afterwards,
he was stitched up at the Asterisk
medical trailer. "I'm fine, just really
frustrated, because I was fast all
day," Tomac said. "I just made a mis-
take out there in that slick part of the
track and lost the front end. It was
slicker than it normally is and I just
got caught. I had fun getting after it
with Dungey in the heat race and I
was hyped for the main. I didn't get
the greatest of starts but managed
to get past some guys and get up
to fourth. I was pushing as hard as
I could to close the gap on third so
I could be in podium contention and
that's when I lost it. Nothing I can do
Jeremy Martin grabbed his first
career Supercross win in the 250
class after what was one of the
best races all year.
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