WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
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anything, but when we came
around the sweeper to do the
triple, I made a mistake there.
I had found a new line there. I
was really making some prog-
ress there and then I rushed it
after the whoops. I knew I lost
a little time. I hit the turn and
he was kind of right there. I got
off-center and at the end of that
straightaway I would close in. I
thought maybe I could make a
dent. The possibility was very
good, I just didn't make it work."
Roczen hung on to win his
second race in a row, and
remain undefeated in 2017. "I
was behind him and was able to
make the pass past the mechan-
ics area and just rode my own
tried to really stay light on the
bike. It worked really well and I
was like, 'I wish I would have fig-
ured this out earlier, but halfway
in, it's alright.' I was pumped."
Dungey hung on to Roczen,
but he was patient, and he
waited until the final lap to make
a move on the leader. Dungey
pushed his front wheel up the
inside of Roczen through a right-
hand sweeper, and seemed to
be setting Roczen up for a pass,
but he made two costly errors—
one that compounded the other.
"When we hit the white flag
I knew I had two spots I could
do this," Dungey said. "I got
inside on Kenny coming in,
nothing to make a pass or
zen] was going good through the
whoops and I needed to pick it
up," Dungey said. "I was able to,
and then when we came into the
whoops after he got by me in the
main, he was just making like a
10th, maybe two [of a second],
so I more just tried to carry my
momentum into it, because
you're not going to build speed—
those things were so slick. I just
Marvin Musquin
made it another
Roczen/Dungey/
Musquin podium
in San Diego.
He's still looking
for that first win.
