WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
VOL. 52 ISSUE 17 APRIL 28, 2015 P61
Briefly...
maha teammate Justin Barcia also
got off hard, but his crash (following
one during media day and another in
practice) came while running sixth
on the eighth lap in the 450 main. He
came up short over a jump and was
hit by another rider. After the crash,
he called it a day but should be ready
for next week at Las Vegas.
"Cole and I started duking
it out a little bit, Yo-Yoing each
other," Tomac said. "Then I was
able to make a move around
him. He made a little mistake af-
ter the finish line, and I jumped
by him there and held on from
there."
Tomac's win marked his 10th
podium of the season in 16
races, in what you might con-
sider his first full season in the
450 class, since he spent most
of last year on the sidelines with
a shoulder injury.
Afterwards, Tomac admitted
that the soft track may have
played a part in his win.
"Whenever the track gets
really soft and rutted like this,
I seem to excel on it," Tomac
said. "It's just something that
suits my riding style, I guess."
Like Tomac, Dungey wasn't
very pleased with his start.
"The start definitely wasn't
the greatest," said Dungey.
"We had to come through the
pack, which I wasn't really
happy about. We made some
good passes right away and
got ourselves up there, found
Tomac finds
his way around
a bruised
and battered
Weston Peick.
