After this minor incident (that looked pretty accidental), Musquin settled into a pace and was able to get his lap time down by nearly two seconds. Musquin isn't quite sure why he got faster, though. In the post race press conference he said: "In the first moto I was just fighting with the bike and I didn’t have any good flow, and Eli was right there. Then for some reason I got a little bit better, a little bit better and build up confidence and the riding was better and I was able to win." 

Tomac was able to match his pace for a little bit, but then started to fall off on lap 12. After the race Tomac said: "He was just going fast. I was doing what I could. We had that little bump together. Then I was trying to settle into a pace, but he kept going that same speed. Couldn’t stay with him and take high risks doing it. My goal was to just settle in second place at that point. That’s all I was today was second-best guy."

Take a look at their times for the entire first moto. 

One Pass

Adam Cianciarulo was so close to winning his first Lucas Oil Pro Motocross race this past Saturday. With one lap to go, he just needed to hold off a hard-charging Dylan Ferrandis and he would have secured the overall win by one point. But Ferrandis made the pass on the backside of horsepower hill, and with that pass went AC's chance for the overall.