2022 WASHOUGAL NATIONAL // 450 QUALIFYING RESULTS

Round 8 of the 2022 AMA Pro Motocross Championship was held in the Pacific Northwest at the legendary Washougal MX track. In the 450 class, it has been Eli Tomac who has been dominating the last few rounds to take the red plate from the factory Honda rider of Chase Sexton. Eli leads Chase by a mere five points. With 5 rounds left in the 450 series, this is anyone’s championship to win. Here is how the 8th round of the series went in the 450 class.

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Photos by Trevor Nelson

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450 OVERALL RESULTS

Chase Sexton won the overall with 2-1 finishes. 

Chase Sexton got the holeshot with Tomac again in second, Anderson third, Plessinger fourth and Savatgy fifth.

With an ankle injury, Savatgy started to drop back and Dungey with a bad start started to move through the pack.

After 10 laps Chase and Tomac were still neck and neck with a 20-second lead over third. Then it was Anderson then Dunay and Craig in the top five.

Chase ended up pulling out a lead on Tomac to win the overall with 2-1 scores. They had an over 40-second lead over third, who was Jason Anderson. Dungey rode to a well-fought fourth.

POS.	#	RIDER	M1    M2
1	23	Chase Sexton	2	1
2	3	Eli Tomac	1	2
3	21	Jason Anderson	3	3
4	94	Ken Roczen	4	6
5	28	Christian Craig	6	5
6	51	Justin Barcia	5	8
7	17	Joseph Savatgy	7	7
8	73	Benny Bloss	9	9
9	7	Aaron Plessinger	8	13
10	26	Alex Martin	10	12
11	285	Marshal Weltin	12	11
12	5	Ryan Dungey	38	4
13	12	Shane McElrath	14	10
14	61	Fredrik Noren	11	14
15	11	Kyle Chisholm	13	16
16	65	Grant Harlan	18	17
17	837	Bryson Gardner	16	19
18	910	Carson Brown	15	20
19	35	Garrett Marchbanks	35	15
20	55	Justin  Rodbell	17	21
21	41	Brandon Hartranft	37	18
22	78	Cade Clason	19	23
23	170	Keylan Meston	20	26
24	57	Kevin Moranz	22	22
25	476	Collin Jurin	21	25
26	92	Jace Kessler	29	24
27	420	Jackson Gray	26	28
28	171	Josh Mosiman	25	29
29	204	Kyle Greeson	30	27
30	139	Nathen LaPorte	23	34
31	181	Wyatt Lyonsmith	27	32
32	841	Jeffrey Walker	24	37
33	230	Dylan Summerlin	34	31
34	820	Matthew Burkeen	32	33
35	522	Rob Windt	31	35
36	600	Connor Olson	28	39
37	647	Matthew Hubert	39	30
38	246	Chance Blackburn	33	36
39	787	Lars van Berkel	36	40
40	216	Devin Harriman	40	38

450 MOTO 1 RACE RESULTS 

Eli Tomac took the first 450 moto win. 

It was the factory Honda rider of Chase Sexton who got the holeshot in the first 450 moto with Ryan Dungey in second and Tomac third. Unfortunately, Dungey had some bike problems and had to pull off the track allowing Tomac to second and Roczen third.

By the fifth lap Sexton and Tomac already had a 10-second lead on the factory Honda rider Ken Roczen.

Tomac got by Sexton for the lead on the 5th lap and they stayed close to each other.

When Dungey was interviewed it seems there was an electronic issue that caused his KTM 450SXF to DNF.

The lead by the 10th lap was more than 20 seconds ahead of Roczen with Jason Anderson closing in. Anderson got around Roczen for third. Anderson was 29 seconds behind the leaders when he got by Kenny.

In the final laps Sexton was battling with Tomac for the lead when they both went down.  When they picked it up they continued their battle.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ooSiiL9OsT4

Tomac and Sexton had a great battle to the end with Tomac taking the top spot with Anderson, Rocze, Barcia, Craig, Savatgy, Plessinger, Bloos and Martin rounding out the top ten.

POS.		#	RIDER	INTERVAL
1		3	Eli Tomac	16 Laps
2		23	Chase Sexton	+01.117
3		21	Jason Anderson	+44.057
4		94	Ken Roczen	+45.612
5		51	Justin Barcia	+47.367
6		28	Christian Craig	+48.468
7		17	Joseph Savatgy	+1:15.815
8		7	Aaron Plessinger	+1:22.640
9		73	Benny Bloss	+1:27.888
10		26	Alex Martin	+1:38.656
11		61	Fredrik Noren	+1:44.520
12		285	Marshal Weltin	+2:16.430
13		11	Kyle Chisholm	15 Laps
14		12	Shane McElrath	+14.889
15		910	Carson Brown	+21.104
16		837	Bryson Gardner	+27.136
17		55	Justin  Rodbell	+28.811
18		65	Grant Harlan	+30.766
19		78	Cade Clason	+42.411
20		170	Keylan Meston	+46.784
21		476	Collin Jurin	+57.302
22		57	Kevin Moranz	+1:07.441
23		139	Nathen LaPorte	+1:09.084
24		841	Jeffrey Walker	+1:16.647
25		171	Josh Mosiman	+1:26.329
26		420	Jackson Gray	+1:26.733
27		181	Wyatt Lyonsmith	+1:32.334
28		600	Connor Olson	+1:33.161
29		92	Jace Kessler	+1:34.840
30		204	Kyle Greeson	+1:50.506
31		522	Rob Windt	+1:59.652
32		820	Matthew Burkeen	+2:11.051
33		246	Chance Blackburn	+2:35.909
34		230	Dylan Summerlin	14 Laps
35		35	Garrett Marchbanks	4 Laps
36		787	Lars van Berkel	+20.592
37		41	Brandon Hartranft	3 Laps
38		5	Ryan Dungey	2 Laps
39		647	Matthew Hubert	DNF
40		216	Devin Harriman	DNS

 

Our vary own Josh Mosiman finished 25th in the first moto.