VOL. 52 ISSUE 34 AUGUST 25, 2015 P43
Briefly...
Ken Roczen is slated to have sur-
gery on his back on August 31 in
Los Angeles to repair an injury that
plagued him the entire summer. "I'm
having the fracture melted to attach it
again," Roczen explained. "Dr. Bray
with some Red Bull doctors that I've
seen down there will be performing
the surgery. I think it should be fine.
They're not like cutting open my back
like super gnarly. I think it's going to
be something pretty mellow and we'll
just have to see how I respond to
the surgery. More than anything the
back injury kept me from training
fully, other than that I'm fine. It was a
matter of when the steroid that I have
in my back was maybe going to wear
off, or sometimes it lasts for a long
time."
Cooper Webb won the first 250
moto, but then things went haywire
in moto two with a crash that put him
out. He still managed a ninth-place
finish with his 1-37 moto result. "It
was an up and down day," Webb
said. "I felt good in moto one and
was able to grab the win. In moto
two I got a good start was feeling
good and scrubbed a jump just too
much. There was some water on the
face and landing so she went and I
couldn't bring her back."
Besides the second-place battle be-
tween Ken Roczen and Justin Bar-
cia in the 450 class, the series also
saw a tight three-rider battle to finish
inside the top five between Chris-
tophe Pourcel, Jason Anderson
and Broc Tickle. In the end Pour-
cel came out on top by three points
over Anderson, while Tickle was just
just another nine points back. "The
When the final rev was heard
Saturday afternoon it was Ya-
malube/Star Racing Yamaha's
Jeremy Martin earning the big-
gest prize of the day. A 4-9 for
sixth overall was all it took for
Martin to wrap up his second-
consecutive AMA Pro 250 MX
title.
"What a crazy year. Marvin
[Musquin] was really strong this
season and pushed me to my
limit. He's a great competitor,"
Martin said. "This year was a
much tougher championship to
win. It was tough last year, but
this was a dogfight all season
long and I'm even more proud
to end the year on top."
After Musquin's 40th in moto
one (aka dead last), he rallied
to take third in moto two, but by
then Martin was out of reach.
The record book will show Mar-
tin won the 2015 AMA Pro 250
MX title by 12 points (491-479)
over Musquin.
Meanwhile the mass of Indi-
ana motocross fans were happy
to cheer Ohioan Aaron Pless-
inger, who broke through to win
his first national with a 2-1 in the
250 National aboard his Star
Racing Yamaha. Plessinger was
a familiar name with Ironman
fans. Aaron's dad, Scott, was a
past winner of the GNCC event
held at this facility.
You can look at Cooper
Webb crashing out of the
second moto or the mechanical
on Musquin's bike, or Martin
playing it safe to insure the title,
but to hear Martin himself say it,
other team was in damage con-
trol after statements by a rider's
father opened an industrial-sized
can of worms.
Welcome to the wild and
wonderful world of professional
motocross.
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