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Hill giving chase. Martin got by
Plessinger in the early going as
Plessinger was trying to get up
to speed, and went after Webb.
At the same time, Webb was
working on Savatgy and Savatgy
was doing everything he could
to block Webb's progress. But
Savatgy ended up swapping off
the track before Screw U, and
although he didn't go down, it
was all Webb needed to sneak
into second.
Savatgy then seemed to move
his focus to the racers behind
him, as he spent his time block-
ing Martin for a couple of laps
before Martin found his way by
in the back, and things began to
fall apart for Savatgy.
That same lap, Plessinger
got Savatgy going into Screw
U, and then Hill and privateer
Yamaha pilot Bradley Taft also
went around Savatgy. Only a few
laps later, Savatgy had faded
to 17th, then pulled off, citing
heat exhaustion. His teammate
Cianciarulo had already pulled
off for the same reason earlier in
the moto.
Martin ended up going down
while running third, behind
Webb, at about the 20-minute
point, which pushed him back
to fifth place and handed third to
Plessinger. Just after that, Webb
made a push to get around
Forkner, and he succeeded
officially with six minutes to go
in the moto—and just in time,
because out came the day's
second red flag for TLD KTM's
Jessy Nelson.
With the race past the 20-min-
ute mark, it was called, and
Webb took the win over Forkner,
Plessinger, Hill, Martin, GEICO
Honda's RJ Hampshire and
Jordon Smith, Rockstar Energy
Husqvarna's Martin Davalos,
Oldenburg, GEICO's Tristan
Charboneau, MotorcycleSu-
perstore.com Suzuki's Kyle
Cunningham, and privateer Taft
finishing a strong 12th in the
incredibly deep 250MX field.
"It was just, he was riding re-
