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SUPERCROSS ROUND 16 / APRIL 29, 2017 METLIFE STADIUM / EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY P76 MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES cepts Honda's Justin Brayton, Tomac's teammate Josh Grant, and then Tomac. Dungey now carries a solid nine-point lead over Tomac go- ing into Las Vegas next week- end, which means that if Tomac wins the main event, Dungey only needs to finish fourth or better to clinch his third-con- secutive (and likely final) 450SX Supercross Championship. "I'm just...that was a bum- mer," Tomac said after the race, never really addressing why he rode the way he did. "The only thing we have to look forward to is that there's one race left and scenarios can flip. It can happen to Ryan next week. It's all I can hope for. Nine points is going to be pretty hard to cover, to catch back up, but it's never over till it's over. It's all I can do." there. At the end, I'm just happy the way I was riding. So thanks to the team. It's awesome to have Jason on the podium, with Aldon Baker as a trainer for all three. It's really nice to be on the podium. And KTM went 1-2. It's an awesome family at KTM." In the post-race conference, neither Dungey nor Musquin admitted to any kind of "team orders." "We both race to win, for sure," said Dungey. "I wanted to win," Musquin said. "I tightened up a little bit on the last lap; I had a good run through the whoops but maybe too fast…that rut was really dif- ficult and hard to feel the front end right here—I made a mis- take…still a second place, it's good." Then came Millsaps, his team- mate Blake Baggett, Motocon- on Marvin's rear wheel the whole time. That was good. I knew that if he passed me, I'd pick up on some of his lines that he was do- ing. I needed some help there. But overall it was good. It's nice to get a win and open up the points a little bit as we go into the last round. But still another race left. We'll try to prepare and finish this strong." Musquin finished second in front of Anderson, who recov- ered from his early crash for third. "Well I'm really happy the way I rode, except that last lap... Obviously everybody is going to think it's teamwork, but I tried," Musquin managed to say on the podium with a straight face. "I saw Ryan was behind. You see Jason went down, Eli went down, so many crashes today. I made a mistake, he was right 450SX New Jersey Press Conference