SUPERCROSS
MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES, AN FIM WORLD
ROUND 10 / MARCH 12, 2016
TORONTO, CANADA / ROGERS CENTRE
P74
Justin Hill (36),
here leading KTM/
TLD teammate
Shane McElrath,
collected his first
250SX East win of
the season.
250SX
HILL STEPS UP
With the 250SX points leader, Rockstar
Energy Husqvarna's Martin Davalos, failing
to make the trip to Toronto under dubious
circumstances, he had to hope for some
major bad luck for his closest championship
rivals Jeremy Martin (two points behind going
into Toronto), Malcolm Stewart (five points
behind), and Justin Hill (seven points behind)
in order to keep him in the championship
chase.
And as the race got going, they almost
completely obliged him, as Stewart attempt-
ed to repeat his controversial move from his
heat race, off the start, only to run into Mon-
ster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki's very solid
Tyler Bowers, which sent Stewart careening
in the wrong direction, eventually leading to
his bike tangling with Martin's YZ250F, the
momentum of which sent him out into his
teammate Aaron Plessinger (effectively taken
out off the start by Stewart in both their heat
and the main event). With Martin, Plessinger
(fifth in points coming into Toronto) and Stew-
art down in turn one, it was as if Davalos had
almost bowled a strike. The only man unac-
counted for was Justin Hill.
Hill was fastest all day in Toronto, and he
started out in fourth place and found his way
into the lead by the fourth lap. This spelled
bad news for Davalos, but things would get
worse for him, as Martin went on a tear that
saw him, remarkably, recover from crashing
in turn one to take second place (from Matt
Bisceglia) on lap nine out of 15.
Hill took a seemingly easy win by over 20
seconds ahead of Martin and Bisceglia, and
even Stewart managed to make it all the way
back up to sixth.
Now, Davalos is looking at a 20-point
deficit behind new points leader Martin if he
wants to win the 2016 250SX East with six
races to go.
