MOTOCROSS
RED BULL STRAIGHT RHYTHM
OCTOBER 21, 2017
FAIRPLEX / POMONA, CALIFORNIA
P72
missed that, it was a big deal,"
Musquin said. "And in the final, it
was with Josh Hansen, if I didn't
hit it, it would've been done for
me. I had to hit it perfect, and
he did, too; I could hear his bike
going wide-open and hitting the
quad, so I was like, 'Okay, he
got it, too. So he's right there.'
It was really close until I was
maybe doing something a little
different after that, like jumping
one more roller, maybe, so stuff
like that, you know you've got to
do it."
give Marv a run for his money. I
really thought I could crack him
at something..."
Hansen said it was ultimately
his heel that made him a little
less apt to jump as far into the
rollers as Musquin was jumping.
Musquin kept his perfect re-
cord intact, winning every single
head-to-head race on his way to
the Red Bull Straight Rhythm win
for the second year in a row.
"Basically, that very first,
big rhythm section, it was 3-3
and then quad-quad, so if you
"I wasn't even planning on rac-
ing up until yesterday," Hansen
said. "I have a little heel issue,
and I'm being a girl trying to ice
it and limping... I had a little deal
at the test track like two days be-
fore Monster Cup, and it jacked
me from going there, and I really
thought I was out of the mix. I
just have to thank Doctor G for
doing some stuff and putting me
back out there. All of this, being
second, I'm happy with it. I'm
just mad that I made some mis-
takes, because I really wanted to
