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up the inside, and I didn't want
to let that happen and he made
the pass and gapped me there
a little bit. I thought, 'alright let's
figure this out and find my lines.'
I was able to maintain that and
then close it a little bit. That's
encouraging. I think I did a good
job adapting to the bike [after
having little time to test for the
outdoors]. The speed was there;
the bike was there. Round one
was good and Kenny rode well
today."
Dungey has never won at
Hangtown—he has a bunch of
second-place finishes—but he's
won three titles, regardless of
those "slow" starts. He'll tell you
he's not worried (and he prob-
ably isn't). Concerned, maybe.
Yoshimura Suzuki's Blake
Baggett showed that he's ca-
pable of running with top guys
again after taking third in the first
moto. Late in the moto, he had
Tomac breathing down his back
and the Kawasaki rider passed
him for third, but that seemed
to fire Baggett up again and he
immediately re-passed Tomac
and held him off to finish third.
Unfortunately, Baggett fell while
riding near the front again in the
second moto and broke his col-
larbone. Somehow, he managed
to finish out the race in 19th.
had two second places, and
that's good. Kenny got away in
the first one but we were able to
maintain a gap and even close it
down, which was good," Dungey
said. "But in the second moto,
he's really good when it gets
choppy, slick and rough, kind of
hard-pack. He was able to get
my riding now. It's going to be a
hard battle and it's only the first
race, but I'm super happy I put
myself in a good position. I think
everyone is going to get better."
Like he usually does, Dungey
focused on the positives af-
terward. "Overall it was really
good," Dungey rationalized. "We
Blake Baggett (4) and Eli Tomac
(3) had a good battle for third in
the first 450MX moto.
