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SUPERCROSS ROUND 14 / APRIL 14, 2018 US BANK STADIUM / MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA P68 MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS iii My Own Race: 6 JEREMY MARTIN 1ST 250SX EAST (3-3-1) "I just kept grinding and kept working," said Jeremy Martin of his recent supercross improvements. "We got the bike a lot better. We're figuring some stuff out and it's re- ally showing here. It gets a little frustrating when people say I can't rider supercross. A lot of people say I can't ride supercross, but all I got to say is you can put that in your pipe and smoke it! To win in front of the hometown crowd, I was kind of going a little nuts after the race. It's an opportunity of a lifetime to be able to race here, and to get the win was unreal." 16 ZACH OSBORNE 2ND 250SX EAST (4-1-2) Zach Osborne was part of a three-way tie in the Olympic-style scoring system to determine the winner in Minneapolis, but the tiebreaker is determined in the last main of the night, which Jeremy Martin won, so Osborne ended up second overall. "It was a tough one for me," Osborne said of the first main event on the night. "To bounce back with a win in the second one, and to really have some good speed and good stamina down the run there, I feel really good about it. The track's rutting up, and these Triple Crown races are really cool, and I think it's a great concept. But the track gets more gnarly. I feel like I rode really well, and we'll just try to keep this momentum going. I stretched my points lead a little bit, and [rode] three solid main events. I'm happy with it." Osborne still extended his points lead, though, as he came into Minneapolis with a seven-point lead over Austin Forkner and left with a 12-point lead over Jordon Smith with two rounds left to run. 45 JORDON SMITH 3RD 250SX EAST (2-2-3) Jordon Smith got the shortest end of the stick in the three-way tie at the end of the night in Minneapolis, finishing third overall by virtue of finishing third in the final main of the night, despite working through an injury since the previous round in Indianapolis. "I'm happy with the way I rode," Smith said. "[I] got off to amazing starts all night, and it's just unfortunate to end up in a tie and I get the bad end of the stick. But I made a couple mistakes there in the last main and let those guys get around me, and then me and Zach [Osborne] got together, so I've just got to be a little better than that if I want to close the points gap on Zach. But overall it was a good night and it was definitely tough out there— the track was really tough and it was just getting harder and harder each lap." 21 JASON ANDERSON 2ND 450SX (2-6-1) Jason Anderson was docked a position in the second of the three main events in Minneapolis for not re-entering the track as soon as the AMA felt that he should have, but, in the big picture, it was a good night for him, as he still extended his points lead over Marvin Musquin by two with only three rounds left to run. "Tonight, that was some of the gnarliest battling I've had to do all year, and that second race, I made kind of a bonehead move and got ahead of myself. I feel like I threw away the win tonight," Anderson said. "But at the same time, that's what this Triple Crown brings; it brings that intense racing. I'm just pumped to get out of here with a solid finish on the podium again. I just want to keep it going. I feel like I was riding good in that last one, but at the end I was breathing pretty hard, and those three intense races are gnarly. I'm really excited to get on the podium again." 25 MARVIN MUSQUIN 3RD 450SX (7-1-2) Marvin Musquin was disappointed in the way the first main event went down in Min- neapolis, but he dominated the second one and ended up on the box yet again. He has now been on the podium in eight of the last nine 450SX Supercross rounds this year, but he lost a couple more points to Jason Anderson in the title chase. "It was a tough day," Musquin said. "Considering my first main event, getting a seventh place, it was terrible, and to get on the podium with only one or two points away from the win, that was pretty amazing. That's why you never give up in a Triple Crown; it's three main events, and all mains count. Obviously, the second one was amazing, and the last