SUPERCROSS
VOL. 52 ISSUE 11 MARCH 17, 2015 P85
"But I got bumped around in
the second turn and some guy
went down in front of me, and
I ran into him and fell over but
got up real quick. I wasn't very
good around the first lap, 10th
or worse than that. I just put in a
super hard charge. I knew it was
going to be hard to catch those
guys but I did it. I was charg-
ing the whole time and caught
them with about three laps to
go, made a clean pass and just
checked out. It was good."
"It's pretty tough to pass out
there," added Forkner. "There's
a lot of different lines but just ev-
erybody's going real fast in this
B class. It was pretty tough but
once I caught them I knew that
I just had to be patient. I was in
third and the two leaders made
a mistake so I just went around
(Top right) Joey Crown, having
just moved up from the minicycle
ranks, won a knock-down drag-out
battle with Austin Forkner on the
big bikes, making a last-lap pass
on the Kawasaki rider to win the
Schoolboy 2 (13-16) class.
(Left) Daniel Baker was one of the
top riders in the A classes, taking
the win in the 250 A/Pro Sport
class, but he dropped out of the
450 A/Pro Sport class.
(Right) KTM Orange Brigade's
Matthew Leblanc took two
championships, capturing the 65
(10-11) and 65 (7-11) Open titles.