Race Reports, Results, Points & Video Highlights from AMA SX Round Four

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.

Shimoda and Craig

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

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

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.


250 Main Video Highlights

250 Main Results

Source: MCNews.com.au

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