WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
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happened to be the same
venue where he got his first po-
dium in the 250SX class many
years ago.
"It all started with the start,"
Tickle said. "I've been working
really hard. This whole off-sea-
son has been awesome with the
whole RCH Yoshimura Team
and been just getting up there
in the front the first couple laps.
I did it tonight and hung in there
for the whole race. I'm not go-
ing to lie, there at the end, I was
struggling, riding tight. Dungey
passed me, I got in behind him
and got a flow going again."
go down. But thankfully I was
able to make some passes.
I got through the track pretty
good. I could see where Eli
was. He had a good lead and
so I was just monitoring him and
where he was at, but we were
right there where we needed
to be. Just the start killed us in
the beginning. Overall I can't be
bummed with tonight. We did
some good damage control.
Thankfully we didn't go down,
we were able to have a good
run and we're safe."
Tickle was elated with his
first-ever 450SX podium, which
