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Cycle News 2017 Issue12 March 28

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SUPERCROSS MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES, AN FIM WORLD ROUND 12 / MARCH 26, 2017 FORD FIELD / DETROIT, MICHIGAN P68 for the lead, and then took off, easily winning his fourth main event in a row. Millsaps ran third early, but Dungey caught him late in the race to make the pass for third. Baggett, who was caught up in the first turn with Dungey, fol- lowed Dungey around Millsaps Weimer went down on lap one, and somehow, by the end of the same lap, Dungey had already moved himself up into seventh place, and Baggett came around lap one just two spots behind him in ninth. It wasn't long, though, before Tomac forced his way by Musquin 450SX Coming into the Detroit main event, things were looking pretty good for the champ. Ryan Dungey won his heat race go- ing away, while rival Eli Tomac had to transfer through a semi, which meant Dungey had a much better gate pick; Dungey had the second pick and Tomac the ninth. However, Dungey's main event got off to a sketchy start as he and Yamaha's Chad Reed tangled handlebars down the start straight, causing Reed to fly into the Tuff Blocks on the inside of the straightaway, then go bounc- ing out through the pack as he went down, taking RCH Suzuki's Justin Bogle down with him. The crash also forced Reed's team- mate Cooper Webb wide, along with Rockstar Energy Husqvar- na's Dean Wilson, Rocky Moun- tain ATV-MC KTM's Blake Baggett and Dungey, who was held up momentarily behind the chaos. "Coming into that first turn was tough tonight," Dungey said. "It got all crazy, and nobody was go- ing to let off. We were all going for it. And there's Chad [Reed], and myself, [Justin] Bogle... And it just domino-effected. It's racing." Out front, Dungey's teammate Marvin Musquin snatched the holeshot over Tomac, Baggett's teammate Davi Millsaps, fast qual- ifier Broc Tickle (RCH Suzuki), Tomac's teammate Josh Grant, Wilson's teammate Jason Ander- son, JGR Suzuki's Jake Weimer, and Motoconcepts Honda's Justin Brayton. Ryan Dungey sees his points lead slipping away.

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