STRAIGHT RHYTHM
2015 RED BULL STRAIGHT RHYTHM
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"I felt like I wasn't as good on
the right-hand side," Stewart
said. "So when I won the first
one against Roczen I felt like,
for some reason the left…the
dragon's back and the whoops…
were better for me, so I felt
pretty confident going into that
next race."
In the next one, Stewart pulled
out to an early lead, and then
Roczen made a costly error,
jumping too far to the left and
crossing the centerline, which
by rule disqualified him from the
run. Just like that, Stewart was
the victor.
"Where James definitely got
me today was in the whoops,"
Roczen said. "They're kind of
but Malcolm held off McElrath
to take the 250cc victory, then
shifted the pressure back over to
his big brother.
"When he [Malcolm] won his
thing," Stewart said, "I said to
myself, 'I'm not losing. I don't
care. I'm not losing.'"
Roczen chose the left-hand
lane for the first race in the
final, and Stewart lined up on
the right. In one of the closest
races of the entire weekend, the
whoops, once again, made up
for a couple minor weaknesses
he had in the rest of the course,
and Stewart just managed to
hold Roczen off to win the first
race. At that point, his confi-
dence was through the roof.
sibling rivalry moved over to
Malcolm.
Malcolm had made quick work
of his teammates in the opening
couple of 250cc rounds, and
he faced off in the 250cc final
against Lucas Oil/TLD KTM's
Shane McElrath, who knocked
his own teammate Jessy Nelson
out to face Malcolm in the final.
"After I told him 'Don't let
Dungey beat you' he went out
there and got him," Malcolm
said. "And then now he's in the
finals and I'm like, 'Oh crap, all
this talking I'm doing telling him
why you better do it and now the
pressure is back on me. I've got
to perform now.'"
It was close in both races,
The long Straight Rhythm track took just over 40 seconds for the top riders to complete.
