Entering the final round of the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship at the inaugural Red Bull Lake Elsinore National GEICO Honda’s Eli Tomac had won four of the last six motos to trim Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki Blake Baggett’s points lead to fourteen. Momentum was on the side of Tomac entering the finale, and questions were beginning to arise if Baggett would be able to withstand the charge of the rising Tomac. In the first moto, Baggett put to rest any doubts about his ability to handle the pressure of a championship after withstanding a furious late charge from Tomac to take the moto win and extend his points lead to 17 with just one moto remaining in the championship.
Red Bull KTM’s Marvin Musquin was looking to play the role of spoiler after snagging the first moto holeshot over GECIO Honda’s Justin Barcia and Lucas Oil Troy Lee Designs Jessy Nelson. Barcia quickly moved into the lead, but would soon receive heavy pressure from Baggett. Meanwhile, Tomac was digging himself out of hole after a bad start.
Baggett chased down Barcia to take the early lead and was able to stretch it to over six seconds. Tomac would fight his way around Barcia and then dropped the hammer to cut Baggett’s lead to just over a second. But Tomac swung for the fences too early and would succumb to the blistering heat, laboring to cross the finish line in second. Barcia would take home third with Musquin, Wil Hahn, Ken Roczen, Malcolm Stewart, Blake Wharton, Jessy Nelson and Jeremy Martin rounding out the top-ten.
250 Moto 1 Overall
- Blake Baggett
- Eli Tomac
- Justin Barcia
- Marvin Musquin
- Wil Hahn
- Ken Roczen
- Malcolm Stewart
- Blake Wharton
- Jessy Nelson
- Jeremy Martin
- Travis Baker
- Cole Thompson
- Kyle Peters
- Kyle Cunningham
- Justin Bogle
- Alex Martin
- Dillan Epstein
- Dakota Tedder
- Tevin Tapia
- Bradon Scharer
- Johnny Jelderda
- Mitch Alcorn
- Dylan Schmoke
- Matas Inda
- Killy Rusk
- Rhett Urseth
- Josh Cachia
- Ryan Sipes
- Preston Tilford
- Landen Powell
- Jason Anderson
- Jackson Richardson
- John Pauk
- Austin Burns
- Sean Hackley Jr
- Travis Bell
- Joey Peters
- Gannon Audette
- Bracken Hall
- Jake Canada
