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SUPERCROSS ROUND 15 / APRIL 21, 2018 GILLETTE STADIUM / FOXBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS P90 that, but it was a great main, and I just, you know, tried." "Just a cheap shot," Tomac said. "I passed him straight-up square and clean, and he went way, way, way past clean. Yeah, that was bad. That was actually a joke. So, he gets to look forward to... I don't know. Hopefully he gets to sleep on it. I'm not going to do anything stupid, but that was just bad." Still, in the end, Musquin took his third main-event win of the year, and they had such a lead that Tomac was still able to get up—with his throttle grip coming off in his hand—and finish sec- ond, about 25 seconds behind Musquin. let's try to do something!' I mean, it's for the win! I led so many laps, I was bummed, and I felt I was riding really good, so I could charge. And I saw right there, that inside, and obviously I was going into that main rut the whole main. And he cut really, really tight, and I definitely didn't expect it. I came in there and obviously the outcome was pretty brutal. I'm sorry about what happened, with the crash. It could've been bad for me, too. For a 450 win in a main, sometimes you've got to try your hardest. This year I've been taken out a few times; Ja- son [Anderson] in Oakland, and Peick in Dallas. I'm not known to be a really aggressive rider like move, sneaking by Musquin as the pair started the final lap. Then, just about a half-lap later, Musquin saw his opportunity, and he took it, slamming into Tomac and knocking the Kawa- saki rider down. It was a very rough pass, and Tomac took understandable exception to it, while Musquin justified it by saying he didn't know Tomac was going to take the inside rut in the turn. That part is possible, since Musquin had never seen Tomac's lines up to that point in the race. "I heard Eli [Tomac] come to the inside after that whoop sec- tion, so..." Musquin said. "A lap and a half to go, I was like, 'Man, MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS (L-R) Tomac, Musquin and Anderson try to celebrate on the 450SX podium.