MOTOCROSS
LUCAS OIL AMA PRO MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 2 / MAY 28, 2016
SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA / GLEN HELEN RACEWAY
P54
250MX
MARTIN TAKES OVER
(Not that one, the other one)
The fact that Alex Martin is lead-
ing the points after two rounds
of racing is big news. There are
not a lot of pundits who would've
been bold enough to predict
such a thing prior to the start of
the series. Even bigger, though,
for those "in the know" is the
relative dominance of the entire
Yamalube/Star Racing Yamaha
squad on their apparently very,
very fast YZ250Fs.
Monster Energy/Pro Circuit
Kawasaki's Joey Savatgy was
dominant at Hangtown for
round one, winning both mo-
tos, but the Star team filled out
the rest of the top five on the
day, with Alex Martin, Cooper
Webb, Aaron Plessinger, and
defending champ Jeremy Mar-
tin doing work.
They stepped it up another
notch at Glen Helen, not only
repeating with four of the top five
spots overall, but sweeping the
overall podium as well.
This is the kind of dominance
that only one 250cc team in his-
tory has ever really shown, and
that team is the one team getting
in the middle of this train of blue
machines at both of the first two
rounds—Monster Energy/Pro
Circuit Kawasaki. At Glen Helen,
though, it wasn't Savatgy who
got up in the middle of the Blue
Crew, but rather rookie Austin
Forkner. Forkner had an incred-
ible day at Glen Helen with a
3-5 score for fourth overall, but
with the dominance of the Star
squad, his amazing rookie ride
quickly became a footnote of the
event.
Alex Martin grabbed the early
lead in moto one and led nearly
the entire thing before his team-
mate Cooper Webb, who, as
of the Las Vegas Supercross,
wasn't even going to be racing
outdoors because of a fractured
scaphoid in his left wrist—chased
him down late in the moto and
stole the victory away. Alex Mar-
tin easily could've ended up third
in the moto, but about halfway
