IN
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WIND
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BLOSE BACK ON TOP
AT NEW ORLEANS
ARENACROSS
M
arch Madness isn't just for "stick and ball" fans, as
the AMSOIL Arenacross, featuring Ricky Carmi-
chael's Road to Supercross demonstrates. The playoff-
inspired Race to the Championship—reserved for the
final rounds of the Arenacross series—has officially
begun, and Babbitt's Monster Energy Kawasaki's Chris
Blose successfully fired the first shot with a big win in
New Orleans. After a series of close races (the previ-
ous three rounds requiring tie-breakers to determine
the overall winner), Blose made a statement with a
dominant 1-1 victory. His big win also garnered him the
points lead.
A rider wouldn't typically hope to leap from sixth in
points to first in the championship in only one race, but
that's exactly what Blose managed to do with his 1-1 vic-
tory. After cruising to the win in the first main event, and
leaving the field behind him to battle for second,
TYLER HOEFT:
2000 – 2015
A
mateur motocross racer Tyler
Hoeft of Castaic, California tragi-
cally passed away on Friday, March
20 following a bad crash at the 2015
JS7 Freestone Spring Champion-
ship in Texas. Hoeft sustained major
head trauma in the accident, and
was rushed to a local hospital where
he was placed on life support. After
showing very little brain activity, the
Hoeft family made the gut-wrenching
decision to take Tyler off life support.
The 14-year-old was pronounced
dead at 4:40 p.m.
Hoeft is survived by his parents,
and his older brother, Justin, who is
also an up-and-coming amateur moto-
cross racer.
