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race was decent, I think the track
was pretty rough," said Pourcel, "I
had pain in one of my ribs from an
old crash, so I kind of rode my own
race. Pourcel said. Ending up top
five overall for the day and top five for
the season, so it was all good. In the
second moto, I saw Jason (Ander-
son) was right in front of me. I didn't
want to pass him. I felt like I was just
riding kind of slow and following him
to do my job (to nail down top-five in
the series). Sometimes you've got to
do this. It's kind of cool to finish in
the top five in my first year here on
the 450."
Jason Anderson said after the first
moto he knew he had a good shot
at taking over fifth in the 450 points
chase from his Husky teammate
Pourcel. "I definitely had a goal of
getting as good in the points as I
could," Anderson said. "But to be
honest, that last moto I was so tired
I was just trying to survive. I made it
through and I'm pumped for Chris-
tophe. He had a good season com-
ing back. For me I just messed up
a couple of times. I think I had four
non-points scoring motos, which
definitely didn't help me at all."
When the opportunity presented it-
self Jason Anderson purposefully
avoided riding the 2016 Husqvarna
explaining he didn't want to know
what he was missing. "I avoided rid-
ing it," he said. "We were in Budds
Creek for two weeks. The first trip
we had our team there and we were
on our race bikes and I didn't want
to ride the new bike because I didn't
want to know what it was like, you
know? We came into the next week
and our (factory) bikes weren't there
second moto, Plessinger simply
got stronger as the day wore
on, while others tired under the
relentless drain of deep ruts and
super–soft dirt. Jessy Nelson
then Joey Savatgy spent time
leading the race in the first half
of the second moto. But once
Plessinger passed Savatgy he
sprinted away to a 10.715-sec-
he was using those long legs to
get over the braking bumps. He
was creative out there and I think
that's why he got the overall
win."
Plessinger ran second to
teammate Webb in the first
moto, but closed in late and
got to within 1.885-seconds of
the winner at the flag. In the
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