MOTOCROSS
LUCAS OIL AMA PRO MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIPS
ROUND 4 / JUNE 17, 2017
HIGH POINT RACEWAY / MT. MORRIS, PENNSYLVANIA
P60
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ocky Mountain ATV-MC KTM's
Blake Baggett is confident, not
cocky. But our sport may have
forgotten what it's like to have some-
one who actually says what they're
thinking, so when Baggett went on
the PulpMX Show the Monday after
his big win in Colorado at the previ-
ous round and said, "I feel like the
bike is doing what I want it to do. It's
not like I've never won a race before.
It's not like I've never passed some-
body after the halfway point before…
so, I'm at the point of, 'I need the
best stuff.' The team has given me
a good opportunity to show what I
have. It's not like I've never shown it
before... Maybe it's been buried and
lost and I have to knock some dust
off of it, but I think I wiped it pretty
clean this weekend [in Colorado]."
All racers who are contending
for championships have this kind of
confidence. All of them. But most
won't publicly state it. A big part of the
reason for this is that they don't want
to give their competition more motiva-
tion to beat them. Baggett obviously
doesn't care about that, and it doesn't
seem to matter anyway, as he went
1-2 at the High Point National anyway
to grab his second 450MX National
win in a row and take over the series
points lead.
And in the 250MX class, Geico
Honda's Jeremy Martin traded moto
wins with Rockstar Energy Husqvar-
na's points leader Zach Osborne.
Martin took the overall while Osborne
still leads the championship.
The second 450MX
moto gets underway
at a revamped High
Point Raceway.
