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time his "home race" came up—
the Tennessee National (round
five) is close to where Webb
grew up in North Carolina—
Webb was back up and running.
He got his first overall win of
the series in Tennessee with a
2-1 score and proceeded to win
seven of the next 11 motos while
his closest competitors suffered
DNFs and early falls that cost
them dearly.
At the penultimate round of
the 2016 Lucas Oil AMA Pro
Motocross Championships at
Budds Creek, both Roczen and
Webb qualified at the top of
their fields, but only one of them
would manage to capitalize on
that.
450MX
Ken Roczen won the 2014 AMA
450cc National Champion-
ship as a member of Red Bull
KTM, alongside teammate Ryan
Dungey at the time, but there's a
massive difference between how
he won the 2016 championship
and how he won it two years
ago. In 2014, Roczen had lost
his edge late in the champion-
ship. Dungey was winning races
and making up critical ground in
the championship, and Honda's
Trey Canard had stepped up and
started beating both of them late
in the series. Roczen came into
the 2014 series finale in Utah
and admitted he didn't even want
to talk to anybody about the
championship until it was over.
He had a points lead, but he was
anything but confident.
he managed to get it treated
and supported with a prototype
Mobius wrist brace, and he went
racing.
It took him a few races to put
two motos together, but by the
clinch his second-consecutive
Western Regional 250cc Super-
cross Championship—and at the
time, people close to him said
he was going to have to miss
the outdoors. But, somehow,
Andrew Short (29), Matt
Bisceglia (32), Dean Wilson
(15) get off to a fast start in
the first 450MX moto.
