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Cycle News 2015 Issue 13 March 31

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VOL. 52 ISSUE 13 MARCH 31, 2015 P73 performance every given night." After slight pressure from Autotrader.com/Toyota JGR Ya- maha's Weston Peick during the first lap or two, Dungey began to pull away, although at about the same time, Rockstar En- ergy Racing Husqvarna's Jason Anderson, Team Honda HRC's Cole Seely and GEICO Honda's Eli Tomac closed in to do battle with Peick over second. Briefly... keeping him in the race for sixth in the points standings. After placing just 16 th in qualifying, Baggett said, "That definitely wasn't my greatest practice sessions. I'm fighting it, but I'm going to do the best I can in my heat race and try to get inside the top four. We're going to have to shave a few seconds off to run that pace." The whoops weren't as big as what the racers have been facing lately, but Ryan Dungey still described them as tough. "The whoops were actually tough because you didn't want to go too fast through them, be- cause you'd start spitting off on the edges and the bike would start slap- ping back and forth," said Dungey. "You wanted to push but you had to be smart because you didn't want it to reach out and bite you." Jeremy Martin said, "The whoops were defi- nitely the smallest they've been this year, but they were technical, be- cause you're going so fast through them your front end would drop, so it was very challenging. Overall, I thought tonight was a good race track. Everyone was going pretty fast but there were different options you could take to make passes. The track got a lot better as the day pro- gressed. The transitions were awful in the beginning of the day but as we kept riding, we kept breaking them in and getting them better." Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing's Martin Davalos was un- able to race due to illness. Marvin Musquin talked about the upcoming three-week break for the 250 East Series. "I wish we'd just go straight to New York, but that's the way it is," said Musquin. "We're go- Marvin Musquin (25) leads the way en route to another 250 East win. continued on next page

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