MOTOCROSS
LUCAS OIL AMA PRO MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 10 / AUGUST 12, 2017
UNADILLA VALLEY SPORTS CENTER / NEW BERLIN, NEW YORK
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but nothing too crazy."
In the mud-soaked second
moto, Savatgy started near the
tail of the top 10 and clawed his
way up to fourth in the short-
ened event.
"We're up here, so I'd say
we're doing pretty well," Savatgy
said, after grabbing second
overall on the day. "[My foot]
is painful, but I'll live. My start
wasn't what we needed and kind
of spun a little bit. All in all, I'm
stoked."
first moto, he came together with
a lapper and injured his foot,
which hindered him in moto two.
"I just got into it with a lap-
per again," Savatgy said after
winning the first moto. "I'm sure
some people saw last week at
Washougal, or whenever it was,
I got into a lapper. They tend to
get out of the way and they stop,
but they don't stop long enough.
So our ruts come together, and
same thing happened in the
back. He checked up and was
going to let me by. I got into
the rut and he didn't wait long
enough. When he pulled it to-
gether, his footpeg went into my
foot a little bit. So it's a little sore,
"For sure, it was a tough
moto," Osborne said after moto
two. "I got off to a mediocre
start, maybe top 10. Wasted all
my tear-offs pretty quick, but I
managed to get it back together
and take fifth in the moto and
just score some more points."
Then there's Monster Energy
Pro Circuit Kawasaki's Joey
Savatgy. He was riding a two-
race winning streak coming into
Unadilla, and he inherited the
lead from his teammate Ciancia-
rulo in moto one when AC went
down. Savatgy won the moto,
and was looking good to make it
three in a row in terms of overall
victories. But near the end of the
Joey Savatgy (17) won the first
250MX moto but struggled a bit in
the second with an injured foot.
