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SUPERCROSS ROUND 10 / MARCH 11, 2017 DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY / DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA P60 MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES like 22 years that I dreamed about making a podium in Su- percross US. Especially tonight, what a crazy race here. Was re- ally not easy, honestly, to be on the podium tonight. I really had to work a lot. I was really tired all of the day and it was really dif- ficult to make a good setup with the bike on that kind of track, be- cause it's really special. Finally I did it. I can't thank enough my team and all the people who do crazy work for me." Osborne now leads the points by six over Savatgy, with Cian- ciarulo only three points further back in third, with five rounds left to run in the series. CN 450SX 1. Eli Tomac (Kaw) 2. Jeremy Martin (Hon) 3. Jason Anderson (Hus) 4. Ryan Dungey (KTM) 5. Cole Seely (Hon) 6. Chad Reed (Yam) 7. Blake Baggett (KTM) 8. Josh Grant (Kaw) 9. Justin Brayton (Hon) 10. Mike Alessi (Hon) 250SX East 1. Adam Cianciarulo (Kaw) 2. Joey Savatgy (Kaw) 3. Dylan Ferrandis (Yam) 4. Jordon Smith (KTM) 5. Zach Osborne (Hus) 6. Lorenzo Locurcio (Yam) 7. Kyle Cunningham (Suz) 8. Alex Martin (KTM) 9. Luke Renzland (Yam) 10. Dakota Alix (KTM) Just when things were looking pretty great for Yamalube Star Racing Yamaha's Colt Nichols, they came back apart again. Nichols broke his right femur in mid-November, giving him only three months to heal and prepare for the start of the 2017 250SX Eastern Regional Supercross Series. That seemed an impossible feat, but he did it, somehow heal- ing from an injury that's normally a six-month ordeal and showed up at round one in Minneapolis ready to do battle. And he did. He crashed while up front at round one and finished 10th, but he followed that with a third and a fourth at the next two races leading to Daytona. However, the Thursday prior to Daytona, Nichols came up injured again, tearing his MCL and fracturing his tibia in his left leg. He's out indefinitely. Jimmy Albertson suffered multiple injuries in a crash that happened during his second qualifying session during the day. His wife, Georgia, reported that he suffered "…com- pressions and fractures on some T vertebrae, an epidural hematoma, broken/displaced sternum, clot in chest, lung contusions and a broken hand." She also added, "The main thing is he can feel everything, and he never got a concussion. Jimmy's doing good, and it sounds worse than it is…I think." With Kyle Cunningham and the Blue Buffalo Yamaha team parting ways after Atlanta, and Cunningham being signed to fill in at JGR Suzuki, the Blue Buffalo team needed a racer, and they found one in Jerry Robin. Robin got famous by racing a 1985 Honda CR250R and qualifying for Loretta Lynn's on it back in 2013. Since then, Robin left racing and took a "real job" after some family trouble reportedly stifled his rac- ing career, but he's back now. He qualified 10th on the Blue Buffalo YZ250F, then finished fifth in his heat race to qualify for the main event. In the main, he started just inside the top five and ran inside the top 10 until just about halfway, when a fall knocked him back to finish 19th on the day. Unfortunately for Robin, though, his trusty CR isn't legal in either class in AMA Pro MX or Supercross competition anymore. Briefly... cont.on page 62