THUNDER VALLEY NATIONAL | 450 RACE RESULTS

The third round of the 2019 AMA Pro motocross Nationals took place at Thunder Valley Raceway in Colorado. This is Eli Tomac’s home track and was coming in was the red plate and a four point lead over the German Ken Roczen. Rain started coming down during the first 250 moto and the officials red flagged the race due to lighting. No-one saw the rain coming as it was sunny in the morning. However before the 450 moto the sun came out again to great racing condition. This is how the day went down in the 450 class.

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OVERALL 450 RACE RESULTS

Kenny went 1-2 to win the overall as well as gain the points lead. 

Cooper Webb got the hole shot in moto 2 with Ken Roczen trying to make the passs for the lead on the first lap. Blake Baggett was third with Marvin Musquin fourth and Tomac fifth on the first lap. Musquin got by Baggett on lap two as did Roczen by Webb and for the lead. Tomac got by Baggett on the same lap as Musquin. On the next lap Tomac made quick work on Musquin for third place, then got around Webb to set his sights on the leader, Ken Roczen. Roczen had a 3.7 second lead over Tomac on the forth lap. On lap five Musquin got around Webb for third. On the sixth lap Osborne made the pass on both Baggett and Webb for forth. Baggett then soon passed Webb for fifth. Webb continued to lose ground as Anderson caught and passed Webb for sixth. By lap eight Tomac cut Roczen’s lead by less than a second. On lap nine Tomac got around Roczen. Tomac my have won the second moto by over 9 seconds, but Ken Roczen captured the overall and points lead heading into the fourth round.

POS.	#	RIDER	M1     M2
1	94	Ken Roczen	1		2
2	1	Eli Tomac	5		1
3	16	Zachary Osborne	2		4
4	21	Jason Anderson	4		5
5	25	Marvin Musquin	8		3
6	2	Cooper Webb	3		8
7	4	Blake Baggett	7		7
8	103	Dean Ferris	6		9
9	51	Justin Barcia	11		6
10	19	Justin Bogle	10		10
11	14	Cole Seely	9		12
12	46	Justin Hill	12		11
13	101	Fredrik Noren	15		13
14	477	Todd Waters	14		14
15	56	Lorenzo Locurcio	18		15
16	49	Henry Miller	13		20
17	41	Ben Lamay	19		17
18	43	Tyler Bowers	17		19
19	63	John Short	25		16
20	69	Jake Masterpool	16		40
21	718	Toshiki Tomita	21		18
22	929	Taiki Koga	20		38
23	227	Derek Kelley	23		21
24	700	James Weeks	24		22
25	321	Bradley Lionnet	27		23
26	341	Derek Anderson	26		27
27	68	Brandan Leith	22		31
28	314	Tyler Stepek	31		25
29	221	Mathias Jorgensen	33		24
30	311	Mitchell Gifford	29		28
31	332	Dustin Winter	32		26
32	48	Cody Cooper	30		29
33	214	Vann Martin	35		32
34	383	Casey Brennan	34		33
35	54	Dylan Merriam	28		39
36	85	Dare Demartile	39		30
37	120	Todd Bannister	36		36
38	841	Jeffrey Walker	38		35
39	17	Joseph Savatgy	40		37
40	526	Colton Aeck			34
41	876	Christopher Alldredge	37

 

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450 THUNDER VALLEY MOTO 1

Roczen has a demanding win in Thunder Valley for the 450 first moto.  

Zach Osborne got the holeshot in moto 1 with Ken Roczen bombing down the first hill making the pass for the lead. Marvin Musquin went down in the second corner off the start. Cooper Webb and Dean Ferris were third and forth behind Osborne. On the first lap Tomac was 11th place with Jason Anderson right in front of him in 10th. Ken Roczen in the first ten minutes pulled almost a ten second lead. Joey Savatgy’s first race back went down hard and had to come into the pits to straight up his bike. Tomac moved up to 8th, although his Oakley roll-off’s broke and lost time fast with Justin Bogle going by him putting him back to 9th. Tomac went in to the mechanics area to get new goggles putting him back to 10th. By lap eight Roczen pulled a 18.5 second lead over second place Zach Osborne. Seely went down while in fifth dropping him back to 9th while Anderson and Tomac made a charge together for 4th and 5th.  Tomac started to put the pressure on Jason but Tomac made a mistake in a deep rut letting Anderson escape. Roczen won easily by over 30 second over Osborne, Webb, Anderson and Tomac.

POS.		#	RIDER		INTERVAL
1		94	Ken Roczen		16 Laps
2		16	Zachary Osborne		+35.416
3		2	Cooper Webb		+44.349
4		21	Jason Anderson		+46.228
5		1	Eli Tomac		+52.552
6		103	Dean Ferris		+54.920
7		4	Blake Baggett		+56.488
8		25	Marvin Musquin		+1:13.824
9		14	Cole Seely		+1:23.291
10		19	Justin Bogle		+1:23.800
11		51	Justin Barcia		+1:39.042
12		46	Justin Hill		+1:44.634
13		49	Henry Miller		+1:55.381
14		477	Todd Waters		+2:03.959
15		101	Fredrik Noren		+2:05.966
16		69	Jake Masterpool		+2:15.832
17		43	Tyle rBowers		15 Laps
18		56	Lorenzo Locurcio		+10.425
19		41	Ben Lamay		+14.444
20		929	Taiki Koga		+17.325
21		718	Toshiki Tomita		+17.672
22		68	Brandan Leith		+35.917
23		227	Derek Kelley		+40.709
24		700	James Weeks		+54.882
25		63	John Short		+1:00.389
26		341	Derek Anderson		+1:15.545
27		321	Bradley Lionnet		+1:23.178
28		54	Dylan Merriam		+1:27.989
29		311	Mitchell Gifford		+1:30.829
30		48	Cody Cooper		+1:45.003
31		314	Tyler Stepek		+1:52.074
32		332	Dustin Winter		14Laps
33		221	Mathias Jorgensen		+03.943
34		383	Casey Brennan		+04.795
35		214	Vann Martin		+15.936
36		120	Todd Bannister		13 Laps
37		876	Christopher Alldredge		12 Laps
38		841	Jeffrey Walker		+6:41.573
39		85	Dare Demartile		9 Laps
40		17	Joseph Savatgy		5 Laps