Momentum, if you so chose to believe in such a thing, was in Ken Roczen’s court entering Atlanta. The week prior, he held Ryan Dungey at bay for twenty laps and told us after the race he “me and Oscar [mechanic, Wirdeman], the entire day we said that we were going to turn things around and we start tonight. We put that in our head and we believed it in.“ A week later, Ken had a bad start (sixteenth after lap 1), could only work to sixth and now trails Dungey by thirty-three. In baseball, they say momentum is only as good as the next game’s starting pitcher. In supercross, momentum is only as good as your next start.

“We’re going to keep on working on the same things. I’ve been feeling really good,” he said in a Soaring Eagle/Jimmy John’s RCH Suzuki statement. “I’m going to put in good laps this week, eat clean and get a bunch of rest to be ready for Daytona. Obviously, we didn’t have the night we wanted in Atlanta but we’re going to bounce back. We’ll come to Daytona, try and be aggressive and hopefully leave there with the win so we can make up some points.”

Roczen’s teammate Jake Weimer finished a disappointing seventeenth. “It was a struggle,” explained Weimer in a team statement. “I don’t know why but I’ve been showing up on the weekends and just not riding that well. I’m going to have to think about coming into the weekend with a different approach and try to figure something out. In the heat races and the semi–the short races–even the beginning of the main, I’m just riding so tight that it’s a struggle. I think it was lap 15 in the main before I actually loosened up and was able to ride decent. I can’t be doing that. I need to come into Daytona next week and try something different.” Weimer made his debut with the team in Oakland and finished eighth, since then he’s gone 14-12-10-17.

450SX Class

Lap Rank	Finish	Best Lap	In Lap	Avg Lap Time	Rider
1	2	45.783	7	46.987	Marvin Musquin
2	1	45.943	9	46.660	Ryan Dungey
3	3	46.042	10	47.096	Chad Reed
4	4	46.193	11	47.428	Davi Millsaps
5	10	46.500	5	47.789	Cole Seely
6	11	46.544	10	48.773	Eli Tomac
7	8	46.629	9	48.047	Justin Bogle
8	5	46.731	6	47.743	Justin Brayton
t-9	7	46.843	16	48.034	Jason Anderson
t-9	6	46.843	14	47.662	Ken Roczen
11	9	46.939	14	48.080	Christophe Pourcel
12	16	47.154	6	48.629	Trey Canard
13	13	47.589	10	49.280	Mike Alessi
14	12	47.703	8	48.872	Weston Peick
15	17	47.869	11	49.303	Jake Weimer
16	14	48.357	7	49.243	James Stewart
17	18	48.444	6	50.185	Kyle Cunningham
18	15	48.535	10	49.284	Vince Friese
19	19	49.007	15	50.197	Tommy Hahn
20	20	49.447	9	51.398	Nick Schmidt
21	21	49.812	5	51.718	AJ Catanzaro
22	22	51.789	3	53.780	Heath Harrison

Movin’ Marvin was indeed moving in Atlanta, he coulda shoulda won the race, and he also had the fastest lap time in the main. Don’t forget, Marvin was super fast last week in Dallas, coming from a first-turn crash to sixth, so he’s been on it.

Musquin and Dungey made this main event look like a training session at the Baker’s Factory as they pushed each other all the way around the track. Here are all 20 of their laps side by side.

Lap	Ryan Dungey	Marvin Musquin
2	46.285	46.178
3	46.156	46.305
4	46.186	46.27
5	45.979	46.396
6	46.263	46.302
7	46.274	45.783
8	46.374	46.188
9	45.943	46.594
10	46.108	46.427
11	46.554	46.591
12	47.145	47.527
13	47.269	46.921
14	47.199	47.796
15	46.538	46.528
16	46.949	46.705
17	46.817	46.972
18	46.81	46.781
19	47.313	47.358
20	48.396	53.143

The scoring officials divided the Atlanta track into four segments, and once again the segment data offers up fascinating info. The fastest times in each segment were logged by Dungey (segment 1, lap 2—Dungey was blazing early in the race, getting past Justin Brayton, Reed and Jason Anderson in a hurry), Davi Millsaps (segment 2, lap 11), Trey Canard (segment 3, lap 1) and Musquin (segment 4, lap 4).

Musquin had two interesting lines working for him. In segment 4, he was landing inside after the rhythm lane and using the inside of the wall jump before the whoops. Dungey was going outside. Marvin’s best time through that segment was 18.728, Dungey’s best was 19.135. Marvin also had a different attack on the triple-triple dragon’s back combo, going triple-double and then singling out and onto the dragon’s back. This was also the section where he cased the triple on the last lap and handed the race over. Even taking into account his 14.8 through there on the last lap, he averaged an 11.051 in the section. Dungey’s laps were all clean but his average through that section was 11.352.

Dungey did his damage in another part of the track—Segment 3, which started in the first turn, and featured a long rhythm lane. Dungey was doing it much better, and his average time through there was 8.435. Musquin’s was 8.964.

250SX East Region

Lap Rank	Finish	Best Lap	In Lap	Avg Lap Time	Rider
1	1	47.027	3	48.943	Martin Davalos
2	2	47.526	6	48.931	Malcolm Stewart
3	3	47.821	6	49.126	Aaron Plessinger
4	5	47.874	11	49.122	Justin Hill
5	4	48.270	9	49.559	Jeremy Martin
6	8	48.884	5	51.128	Tyler Bowers
7	6	49.029	7	50.444	RJ Hampshire
8	7	49.679	2	51.108	Darryn Durham
9	19	49.781	4	51.548	Arnaud Tonus
10	20	49.856	3	51.669	Jesse Wentland
11	21	49.867	5	50.939	Luke Renzland
12	22	50.154	2	51.166	Shane McElrath
13	9	50.447	9	51.469	Alex Frye
14	15	50.753	4	53.153	Marshal Weltin
15	10	50.757	5	52.035	Jimmy Albertson
16	11	50.890	7	52.291	Matt Bisceglia
17	14	51.150	9	52.272	Gannon Audette
18	12	51.152	9	52.239	Dakota Alix
19	16	51.187	8	52.911	Justin Starling
20	13	51.214	9	52.346	Benny Bloss
21	17	52.049	8	53.294	Anthony Rodriguez
22	18	52.294	2	53.696	Paul Coates

Malcolm Stewart had the fastest practice and heat race time, and he was also catching Martin Davalos at different parts of the main event. But don’t doubt Martin’s speed—his best lap in the main was a half-second quicker than anyone else.