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Cycle News Issue 16 April 24

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SUPERCROSS MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS, AN FIM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 15 / APRIL 21, 2018 GILLETTE STADIUM / FOXBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS P84 in the final turn. And in the main event, Tomac started near the front. The only problem was that Marvin Mus- quin (Red Bull KTM) started in front of him. It was actually Christian Craig (Honda HRC) who grabbed the holeshot, but he jumped off now needs only to finish 16th place or better in Salt Lake City this coming weekend to clinch his first 450SX championship, and the first- ever 450SX title for Husqvarna. And keeping with the Husqvarna successes, Anderson's teammate Zach Osborne got his starts sorted out in Foxborough and got the holeshot in both his heat race and the main event, leading every lap of racing on his way to his third win of the 250SX East series, extend- ing his points lead to 15 with just one round left to run, in Las Vegas in two weeks' time. 450SX Eli Tomac (Monster Energy Ka- wasaki) came into Foxborough on a streak, having won the two previous rounds of the Supercross Championship. He was fastest during daytime qualifying, and came up just short of winning his heat race, thanks to a smart move by Justin Barcia (Monster Energy Yamaha) to hold him on the outside (Left) Musquin and Tomac discuss Musquin's controversial pass on Tomac on the last lap. Tomac was not impressed. (Below) Musquin got out in front early and stayed there until a crazy final two laps.

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