WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
VOL. 54 ISSUE 13 APRIL 4, 2017 P75
mer points leader. Smith ended
up winning the Detroit race, the
first of his career. That set up the
final run to the championship,
and Osborne absolutely had
to start making up points in St.
Louis.
Osborne set a blistering pace
on the way to his heat-race
victory at the beginning of the
night, but when the main event
got underway, it was Savatgy
jumping out to the early lead
while Osborne finished lap one
in eighth place. Smith was close
enough to keep Savatgy honest
in the early going, and Savatgy—
for the second race in a row—
made a costly error all by himself
out front, cross-rutting and going
off the track, relinquishing the
lead to Smith.
By this point, Osborne, who
came into the race a little under
the weather, found himself in
third place, and with the times
he was putting up earlier in the
night, it was easy to assume he
250SX EAST
If you're going to get hot, do it
at the end of a championship.
While Rockstar Energy Husqvar-
na's Zach Osborne has still
won more races than anybody
else in the 2017 250SX Eastern
Regional Supercross Series, a
fluke front-wheel problem related
to a crash in Detroit a week ago
has set him back significantly.
Osborne came into the St. Louis
Supercross trailing Monster En-
ergy Pro Circuit Kawasaki's Joey
Savatgy by 10 points in the title
chase. But it was TLD Red Bull
KTM's Jordon Smith who once
again capitalized (and closed
in ever closer to Savatgy in the
championship hunt).
Smith was actually the one
who, coming from the far outside
off the start in Detroit, cut across
Osborne's front wheel in the first
turn, made contact, resulting
in broken spokes in Osborne's
front wheel, which ultimately led
to an 18th-place finish for the for-
250SX St. Louis Highlights
Jordon Smith
held on to take
his second win
in a row in the
250SX East main.
