Blow by blow recap from the SX mains in San Diego | Video Highlights

2020 AMA Supercross Results
Round Six – San Diego

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Michael Mosiman scored yet another holeshot when the gates dropped for the 250 Main to lead the way on the first lap from Australia’s Luke Clout. The South Australian had Austin Forkner and Dylan Ferrandis right on his hammer and both managed to slip past him at the end of the second long whoops section.

Justin Cooper and Cameron McAdoo then pushed Clout further back to sixth.  Countrymen Aaron Tanti was running ninth at this early stage of the race and Jay Wilson 12th.

Mosiman held on to the lead until the 11-minute remaining mark on the time clock. A mistake by Mosiman then allowed Ferrandis through and pushed Mosiman back to third place. A lap later Cooper pushed Mosiman further back to fourth.

McAdoo then had a machine problem which put him out of the race and promoted Clout back up to fifth place on the Penrite Honda.  With five-minutes left on the clock Wilson was in 11th and Tanti 15th.

Ferrandis pulled alongside Forkner a couple of times but could not complete a clean pass and then lost ground after each of those two attempts.

If the Frenchman was not on probation from his take-out move on Christian Craig at Anaheim II earlier in the season he would have completed at least one of those pass attempts after making contact with Forkner, but Ferrandis needed to be careful. 

The eventual move came with just over a minute left on the clock with an aggressive but fair enough pass on Forkner. Once through to the lead Ferrandis left Forkner in his wake and pulled away with ease.

Ferrandis was the winner by over six-seconds with Coooper equidistant in third completing the podium. Again the Frenchman was booed loudly by the crowd during the post-race interview.

Early leader Michael Mosiman claimed fourth place ahead of Hartfranft who squeezed past Clout late in the race to push the Penrite Honda rider back to sixth place. Countrymen Jay Wilson crossed the line in 11th while Aaron Tanti carded a 14th place finish.

Dylan Ferrandis now leads Justin Cooper by seven-points in the 250SX West Championship Standings. Luke Clout is the highest ranked Australian in seventh ahead of Aaron Tanti in 14th, the injured Jett Lawrence in 15th and Jay Wilson in 16th. The 250 West series now has a six-week break as the East Coast series kicks off in Florida next weekend.

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Blake Baggett and Aaron Plessinger fronted the pack into turn one for the 450 Main but Adam Cianciarulo and Cooper Webb made short work of that pair and were running 1-2 in no time.

Championship leader Ken Roczen was back in eighth after the opening couple of laps while Eli Tomac was in ninth after squeezing past Jason Anderson and Justin Brayton.

Justin Barcia took fifth place from Malcolm Stewart with 16-minutes remaining on the clock, and that pair were then closed down by Ken Roczen and Eli Tomac with both of them making short work of Malcolm Stewart.

Aaron Plessinger has been running third but a mistake cost the Yamaha man dearly as he spun out and lost five positions before he was back up to speed.

Tomac made a move on Roczen to push his way up fifth place and a couple of laps later also got by Barcia to claim fourth place.

Barcia took the fight right up to Tomac though and got back past the Kawasaki man, their tussle allowing Roczen to close in again.  Tomac passed Barcia again and this time around was able to put some clear air between himself and the #7 Yamaha.

With eight-minutes remaining Cooper Webb managed to reel Adam Cianciarulo in and started challenging for the lead. Blake Baggett was three-seconds behind the pair in third and at that stage of the moto had six-seconds on the now fourth placed Tomac.

Chad Reed was running just inside the top 20 before retiring with a bike problem.

It took Cooper Webb a lot longer to work his way past Cianciarulo than he would have liked but eventually made the move with two-minutes remaining on the clock. The track lay-out made passing moves very hard to pull off, as every unsuccessful attempt cost the challenger a lot of time. Cianciarulo tried to come back at Webb but the KTM man had his measure and pulled away in the closing stages to take the victory by over three-seconds.

Blake Baggett took a strong podium finish with a good buffer over fourth placed Tomac. Ken Roczen was not able to challenge Barcia for fifth, the championship leader finishing sixth just ahead of fellow Honda rider Justin Brayton.

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Post Race Press Conference

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