GEICO Honda’s Zach Osborne started the first 250 moto of the day by ripping a spectacular looking holeshot, pulling a wheelie down almost the entire start straight. Unfortunately for Osborne it didn’t last, and he soon surrendered spots to Ken Roczen, Jeremy Martin Eli Tomac and Marvin Musquin. Blake Baggett started outside of the top twenty, and after putting in a bit of a charge, experienced problems and pulled out on lap eleven.
Up front it was Ken Roczen, who seemed much more like the early-season Roczen than the one we’ve seen lately. He pulled a huge gap over Martin in second, and even when Tomac passed Martin and started going after Roczen, he wasn’t able to make up much, if any, ground on the German.
Speaking of Tomac passing Martin, it was one of the greatest passes of the entire season. Tomac pulled out a move where he was using the final bump in a roller section to boost himself into the air and step on to the following tabletop. The roller he was using as a launch was tiny, and the first time he did it, jaws smacked the ground in amazement. When he was right on Martin’s rear wheel going into the rollers, he used the move to jump onto the tabletop and blaze past Martin as Martin floated in the air over the tabletop. The first thing Martin probably asked when he got back to the truck was how in the world Tomac had passed him like that.
Marvin Musquin was having a good race early, even passing Tomac, but he came up short on a big double and crashed, which cost him a ton of positions. Justin Bogle got off to a terrible start but kept pushing in the intense Southern California heat to end up in eighth.
Zach Osborne and Cole Seely going at it. Osborne would take fifth while Seely finished tenth.
Photo: Hansel
250 Moto One Results
- Ken Roczen
- Eli Tomac
- Jeremy martin
- Cooper Webb
- Zach Osborne
- Wil Hahn
- Kyle Cunningham
- Justin Bogle
- Marvin Musquin
- Cole Seely
- Martin Davalos
- Jessy Nelson
- Justin Hill
- Adam Cianciarulo
- Darryn Durham
- Matt Bisceglia
- Jason Anderson
- Shane McElrath
- Kyle Peters
- Ryan Zimmer
- Preston Mull
- Jacob Baumert
- Jake Mohnike
- Trevor Reis
- Brandon Scharer
- Jason Brooks
- Zack Williams
- William Clason
- Austin burns
- Brady Kiesel
- Matas Inda
- Conner Elliot
- Blake Baggett
- Alex Martin
- Chad Gores
- Dakota Tedder
- Colt Nichols
- Michael Leib
- Brad Nauditt
- Sean Hackley Jr.
