450 Post Race Press Conference
450 Championship Standings (Round 4 of 17)
Pos | Rider | Rnd1 | Rnd2 | Rnd3 | Rnd4 | Total |
1 | Eli Tomac | 17 | 19 | 23 | 26 | 85 |
2 | Chase Sexton | 18 | 14 | 26 | 21 | 79 |
3 | Jason Anderson | 13 | 26 | 15 | 23 | 77 |
4 | Cooper Webb | 23 | 16 | 19 | 15 | 73 |
5 | Justin Barcia | 21 | 21 | 14 | 16 | 72 |
6 | Malcolm Stewart | 16 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 70 |
7 | Dylan Ferrandis | 7 | 17 | 21 | 19 | 64 |
8 | Marvin Musquin | 19 | 15 | 13 | 17 | 64 |
9 | Ken Roczen | 26 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 62 |
10 | Aaron Plessinger | 14 | 23 | 17 | 1 | 55 |
11 | Dean Wilson | 11 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 47 |
12 | Max Anstie | 9 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 40 |
13 | Shane McElrath | 5 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 37 |
14 | Brandon Hartranft | 6 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 32 |
15 | Joey Savatgy | 15 | 12 | 27 | ||
16 | Justin Brayton | 10 | 12 | 2 | 24 | |
17 | Adam Cianciarulo | 12 | 11 | 23 | ||
18 | Mitchell Oldenburg | 8 | 7 | 8 | 23 | |
19 | Kyle Chisholm | 5 | 6 | 7 | 18 | |
20 | Alex Martin | 6 | 3 | 6 | 15 | |
21 | Josh Hill | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 |
22 | Justin Bogle | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 10 |
23 | Ryan Breece | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
24 | Fredrik Noren | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
25 | Justin Starling | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | |
26 | Cade Clason | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||
27 | Joan Cros | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
250 Main
Vince Friese and Michael Mosiman got the best starts but Christian Craig was soon on the move and up to third after the first few turns. Jo Shimoda then took the battle back up to Craig to move back up to that third position. Jalek Swoll and Hunter Lawrence were fifth and sixth respectively at this early juncture.
Mosiman moved through to the lead as Friese and Craig tussled over second position, after the championship leader had got the better of Shimoda once again. Their battle was allowing Mosiman to break away a little. Hunter Lawrence was now up to fourth with 12-minutes still left on the shot clock.
Christian Craig eventually broke away from Friese and chased down Mosiman. With five-minutes remaining Craig put a fairly stiff move on Mosiman, the GASGAS rider came back at him at the next turn and could have pushed him over the edge but instead kept his riding clean and stayed in second, that was a pivotal moment in the race.
Hunter Lawrence was attacking the track while trying to look for a way past Vince Friese for third place with two-minutes left on the clock. Jo Shimoda was not out of that battle either and could capitalise if either Friese or Lawrence make a mistake. The situation was tight with two laps to run. Friese then went down in the whoops, perhaps succumbing to the pressure from Lawrence, Shimoda then hit Friese as the Kawasaki man had nowhere to go, it was ugly but both men were okay.
Up front Christian Craig had pulled away from Mosiman and that pair looked settled in those 1-2 positions while the incident between Friese and Shimoda had made Lawrence’s third place finish look safe.
Christian Craig went on to victory and with it extended his championship lead over Hunter Lawrence to 11-points. With second place Michael Mosiman strengthened his third place on the points table and is now only three-points behind Lawrence.
A great consistent start to the season for Lawrence, who, while not visiting the top step on the podium yet, he has been on the podium at every round so far this season.
Supercross next heads to Glendale in Arizona for round five of what is a ten round 250 West Championship.
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Source: MCNews.com.au