Justin Bogle takes first 450 AMA Motocross victory with opening Moto win at Budds Creek
AMA MX 2017 – Budds Creek – 450
Proving that his moto win earlier this year was no fluke, Justin Bogle returned to the top of the 450 Class podium at Budds Creek. The RCH/Yoshimura Suzuki rider was victorious in Moto 1 and finished third in Moto 2 to take the overall win at Round 11 of the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship. It’s Bogle’s second career moto win and first-ever overall win, and it comes at a much needed time — he’s due to be a free agent at the end of the season.
The championship battle was the other major storyline in the 450 Class, and after the first moto, it looked as though Eli Tomac could be setting himself up for trouble. But Tomac bounced back to win the second moto, effectively negating any damage done earlier in the day.
AMA MX 2017 – Budds Creek – 450 Moto One Report
For the second week in a row, Matt Bisceglia grabbed a holeshot, but he was passed by Martin Davalos on the opening lap of the race. It wasn’t a great start for any of the top riders in the championship fight — Eli Tomac, Marvin Musquin or Blake Baggett. Tomac had the worst start of the bunch, as he was outside of the top 10 after the opening lap.
Up front, it was Davalos leading the way. It’s been quite a season for Davalos, who finally moved up to the 450 Class after about a decade on the 250. His results have been improving throughout the season, which led to him finishing second overall just one week ago. But within the first nine minutes of the race, Davalos lost the lead to Justin Bogle, who won a moto earlier this season and is trying to showcase himself for a 2018 factory ride.
Musquin entered the day with a six-moto winning streak, but he was hindered by his start in this race. About 20 minutes into the moto, he worked his way up into the top three thanks to a mistake from Cole Seely. Musquin kept the charge going and was able to chip away at the deficit between himself and second-place Davalos. With less than four minutes left on the countdown clock, Musquin was able to make the pass on Davalos, leaving only Bogle left to chase down but limited time to do so.
With three laps to go, Musquin had just turned a lap that was two seconds quicker than Bogle’s — that cut the lead down to about 2.5 seconds. By the time the white flag arrived, there was little separating the two riders, despite some mistakes from Musquin on the prior laps. Though both riders pushed hard on the final lap, Bogle was able to hold off Musquin to score his second moto win of the season.
Davalos, Seely and Baggett rounded out the rest of the top five. Tomac finished back in seventh, meaning he lost eight points to Musquin (and two points to Baggett) in this moto. The point standings are even tighter now heading into Moto 2 — as it stands now, Tomac is 23 points ahead of Musquin and 25 points up on Baggett.
Elsewhere on the track, Dean Wilson went down in the late stages of the race and ended up finishing 16th. That ends his streak of top-10 finishes, which was 20 strong going all the way back to the season opener.
AMA MX 2017 – Budds Creek – 450 Moto One Results
1. Justin Bogle
2. Marvin Musquin
3. Martin Davalos
4. Cole Seely
5. Blake Baggett
6. Matt Bisceglia
7. Eli Tomac
8. Weston Peick
9. Cooper Webb
10. Christian Craig
11. Benny Bloss
12. Fredrik Noren
13. Dakota Alix
14. Phil Nicoletti
15. Heath Harrison
16. Dean Wilson
17. Ben LaMay
18. Henry Miller
19. John Short
20. Kyle Chisholm
AMA MX 2017 – Budds Creek – 450 Moto Two Report
Bisceglia continued his run of good starts in Moto 2, getting the holeshot for the third time in the last four motos. But on the opening lap, it was Bogle moving into the lead once again. At the end of the first lap, Bogle had opened up a lead of more than two seconds on second-place Baggett.
Baggett eventually closed in on Bogle though and made the pass within the first 10 minutes of the race to take the lead. Tomac soon followed Baggett past Bogle and into second place. Within a few laps, the stage was set for a battle between Baggett and Tomac. With exactly 25 points — the equivalent of one moto win — separating them at the start of the moto, this battle was huge for the points race. And shortly before the midway point, Tomac got inside of Baggett to move into the lead. A few minutes later, a mistake from Tomac nearly cost him the top spot, but he recovered just in time to stay in front of Baggett, and that’s where he would remain.
Thanks to a poor start from Musquin, it appeared as though Tomac and Baggett would both be able to pick up quite a few points on him. But Musquin rebounded from that start and got himself up to fourth (behind Tomac, Baggett and Bogle) around 20 minutes into the moto. At that point though, Musquin was too far behind the lead trio to be a factor.
Tomac led the final 11 laps of the race, putting his points lead at 28 points over Baggett and 30 points over Musquin.
With his third-place finish in Moto 2, Bogle (1-3) locked up the first overall win of his 450MX career. Musquin (2-4) and Tomac (7-1) joined him on the podium in second and third, respectively. Baggett (5-2) finished in fourth, just one point back of Tomac for third place.
Marvin Musquin
“My starts just weren’t good today, and I put myself in a tough spot to win both motos. I was around 8th in the first moto rounding the first turn. It was tough coming through the pack. I was going through tear offs really fast trying to get by everyone. But, I was able to push hard and come back strong to finish 2nd in that moto, I didn’t get the greatest start in the second moto. I was somewhere around 15th and had to push hard to try and make up ground on the guys up front. The top three guys were truly gone by the time I worked my way into fourth-place spot. The gap was too big to catch them in time. I had to settle for 2-4 moto finishes for 2nd overall. Although second overall isn’t bad, my goal was to go 1-1 like the last few weekends because I would then earn the maximum 50 points for the weekend. I earned 40 points toward my championship today, so I left 10 points on the table that I would have liked to add to my standings. Hopefully I get my starts dialed back in for the final round next weekend so I can try to finish my season off strong.”
AMA MX 2017 – Budds Creek – 450 Moto Two Results
1. Eli Tomac
2. Blake Baggett
3. Justin Bogle
4. Marvin Musquin
5. Dean Wilson
6. Weston Peick
7. Cooper Webb
8. Cole Seely
9. Christian Craig
10. Matt Bisceglia
11. Benny Bloss
12. Phil Nicoletti
13. Dakota Alix
14. Kyle Chisholm
15. John Short
16. Heath Harrison
17. Isaac Teasdale
18. Toshiki Tomita
19. Brandon Scharer
20. Ronnie Stewart
AMA MX 2017 – Budds Creek – 450 Overall Results
1. Justin Bogle (1-3)
2. Marvin Musquin (2-4)
3. Eli Tomac (7-1)
4. Blake Baggett (5-2)
5. Cole Seely (4-8)
6. Weston Peick (8-6)
7. Cooper Webb (9-7)
8. Matt Bisceglia (6-10)
9. Christian Craig (10-9)
10. Dean Wilson (16-5)
11. Benny Bloss (11-11)
12. Martin Davalos (3-38)
13. Phil Nicoletti (14-12)
14. Dakota Alix (13-13)
15. Heath Harrison (15-16)
16. Fredrik Noren (12-39)
17. Kyle Chisholm (20-14)
18. John Short (19-15)
19. Isaac Teasdale (30-17)
20. Ben LaMay (17-23)
AMA MX 2017 – Budds Creek – 450 Championship Standings
1. Eli Tomac (439)
2. Blake Baggett (411)
3. Marvin Musquin (409)
4. Dean Wilson (320)
5. Cole Seely (294)
6. Justin Bogle (286)
7. Martin Davalos (263)
8. Weston Peick (241)
9. Cooper Webb (237)
10. Jason Anderson (216)
AMA MX 2017 – Budds Creek – 250
Zach Osborne recovered from a first-turn pileup in Moto 1 to win the second moto at Budds Creek and clinch the 250 Class championship. The title, which is the first outdoor title of Osborne’s career, comes with one round remaining in the 2017 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross season and comes at the same track where he won the first race of his career one year ago.
Osborne wasn’t the only one with a career first though — Adam Cianciarulo became a first-time winner, winning Moto 1 and the overall. The victory comes more than four years after he made his pro debut at Budds Creek.
Adam Cianciarulo
“It was pretty emotional to get that first moto win and then to get the overall was the best feeling,” said Cianciarulo. “To be so close and not able to even podium has been tough to swallow, but I never gave up. I have an amazing group behind me encouraging me and pushing me to be better. It’s great to keep the good results going for the team. We’ll see what happens next week, but I think we’ve found something and will hopefully have a great final round.”
AMA MX 2017 – Budds Creek – 250 Moto One Report
Zach Osborne’s quest to lock up his first 250MX championship got off to a bad start when he was collected in a first-turn pileup at the start of Moto 1. After remounting, he would be forced to spend the rest of the moto salvaging positions and points.
Meanwhile, Adam Cianciarulo grabbed the holeshot, with Jeremy Martin and RJ Hampshire emerging in second and third, respectively.
The last couple weeks have brought some heartbreaking moments for Cianciarulo, who repeatedly found himself on the cusp of a win, only to lose it in brutal fashion. This time around, the Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki rider would not be denied. He kept Martin at bay and eventually extended his lead to a comfortable margin. Unpressured late in the race, Cianciarulo won by six seconds to earn the first moto victory of his 250 Class career.
Martin was able to hold off his GEICO Honda teammate, Hampshire, to secure second place.
As for Osborne, he turned in a respectable result given his first-lap incident. He worked his way up to eighth by the end of the race, meaning that he lost just nine points to Martin. With a 54-point lead, Osborne remains in position to clinch the 250MX title in the second moto as long as he can keep the points lead over 50.
Joey Savatgy did not line up for Moto 1 after a rough crash in practice earlier in the day.
AMA MX 2017 – Budds Creek – 250 Moto One Results
1. Adam Cianciarulo
2. Jeremy Martin
3. RJ Hampshire
4. Shane McElrath
5. Aaron Plessinger
6. Kyle Cunningham
7. Colt Nichols
8. Zach Osborne
9. Chase Sexton
10. Sean Cantrell
11. Mitchell Harrison
12. Luke Renzland
13. Dylan Wright
14. Justin Cooper
15. Dylan Ferrandis
16. Cody Williams
17. Lorenzo Locurcio
18. Joey Crown
19. Jayce Pennington
20. Steven Clarke
AMA MX 2017 – Budds Creek – 250 Moto Two Report
It was a race between Martin and McElrath to the holeshot line. Although Martin technically got the holeshot, McElrath emerged with the lead. Behind those two was Osborne. At the other end of the spectrum was Chase Sexton, who tried to get a jump on the gate drop and ended up stuck.
Osborne engaged Martin in a battle for second and quickly took the position away, which put him in position to clinch the title if he remained ahead of Martin.
Behind the lead trio was Cianciarulo, who was in contention — along with McElrath — for the overall victory.
About twelve minutes into the race, Osborne was all over the rear fender of McElrath and looked like he was about to take the lead away, but McElrath held him off initially. A few laps later, a series of incidents unfolded that would shake things up: First, Martin went down and lost several spots; then, Osborne took the lead from McElrath.
As a result, there were two things that happened: Osborne virtually assured that he would lock up the title, and Cianciarulo moved into position for the overall win.
With under three minutes to go, Cianciarulo moved up to second by passing McElrath. His 2-1 finishes secured him the overall win, with Osborne (8-1) second and McElrath (4-3) third.
But the biggest prize of all went to Osborne, who won the moto and won the 250 Class championship.
AMA MX 2017 – Budds Creek – 250 Moto Two Results
1. Zach Osborne
2. Adam Cianciarulo
3. Shane McElrath
4. Aaron Plessinger
5. Colt Nichols
6. Jeremy Martin
7. RJ Hampshire
8. Justin Cooper
9. Chase Sexton
10. Mitchell Harrison
11. Luke Renzland
12. Kyle Cunningham
13. Dylan Wright
14. Steven Clarke
15. Lorenzo Locurcio
16. Nick Gaines
17. Gustavo Souza
18. Sean Cantrell
19. Joey Crown
20. Austin Root
AMA MX 2017 – Budds Creek – 250 Overall Results
1. Adam Cianciarulo (1-2)
2. Zach Osborne (8-1)
3. Shane McElrath (4-3)
4. Jeremy Martin (2-6)
5. Aaron Plessinger (5-4)
6. RJ Hampshire (3-7)
7. Colt Nichols (7-5)
8. Chase Sexton (9-9)
9. Kyle Cunningham (6-12)
10. Mitchell Harrison (11-10)
11. Justin Cooper (14-8)
12. Luke Renzland (12-11)
13. Dylan Wright (13-13)
14. Sean Cantrell (10-18)
15. Lorenzo Locurcio (17-15)
16. Steven Clarke (20-14)
17. Dylan Ferrandis (15-40)
18. Nick Gaines (40-16)
19. Joey Crown (18-19)
20. Cody Williams (16-26)
AMA MX 2017 – Budds Creek – 250 Championship Standings
1. Zach Osborne (451)
2. Jeremy Martin (387)
3. Adam Cianciarulo (330)
4. Joey Savatgy (324)
5. Aaron Plessinger (319)
6. Dylan Ferrandis (305)
7. Alex Martin (296)
8. Colt Nichols (265)
9. Mitchell Harrison (250)
10. Shane McElrath (248)
