In 450 practice, Eli Tomac jumped to the top of the board early, but then it was Josh Grant going to the top with a strong time on his fourth lap. Then the rejuvenated Justin Bogle went to the top. Tomac answered back quickly to retake the top spot. Grant logged another flyer and went to second—feeling it right now. Marvin Musquin went to the top, but riders really started scrambling with fast times late in the session, and it was Zach Osborne who actually got the job done to lock in the fastest time on his Rockstar Energy Husqvarna. Webb and Joey Savatgy also hustled into the top five with strong laps late.

Second Practice

Times shuffled throughout the session, but it still ended the same way the first one did—with Chase Sexton ahead of Mitch Oldenburg. Sexton has been in control of the top of the board the whole day, really and looks solid and smooth.

If a fan were watching from the stands and didn't know Forkner was riding with a freshly torn ACL, that fan wouldn't even realize he's hurt. He looks solid. He's not as blazing fast as he normally, but he looks okay. So far. As we said, he could be one tweak or twist from trouble. Austin's time from the first session held up for third overall, but he was only 11th in this practice, so his trouble might not be just lining up and racing, but going fast enough to beat Sexton and Cooper. By racing, he at least gives himself a chance.

Cooper is certainly a favorite here, hailing from about an hour away in New York, and he looks pretty quick, but some tough passes through the whoops slowed his times. Speaking of that, Christian Craig, making his return from a thumb injury, went down hard in the whoops. His bike looked banged up and he called it an end to the session. He will not race tonight.

New Jersey's own Brandon Hartranft was solid in this session. He had a quick crash, but was okay, and ended up third-fastest.

In 450s, Marvin Musquin got out front immediately in this practice and started laying down lot laps, his #25 was on top of the board most of the way. The track was supposed to have a huge double across the start straight, but for safety purposes it was turned into a single and a wall jump. But Marvin was airing the single out so far that he got all the way to the face of the well jump. Then he threw in a crazy 3-4 combo one time in the rhythm after the second set of whoops. Marvin was absolutely on fire in this session.

Ken Roczen was second-fastest in this session, which was good, but he did clip a tuff block in the whoops and go over the bars. It was a soft landing and he was okay. Zach Osborne, fastest in the first practice, was trying to log a late heater, but couldn’t get a clean lap in due to some other riders cruising in the main line. We did talk to Zach after the first practice, and he said the team recently logged three long days of testing for outdoors. He also implied that he learned some things for supercross. 

250 Heats

In heat one, Mitch Oldenburg grabbed the holeshot but Martin Davalos quickly sliced into the lead. Jace Owen then made the move on Mitchell Falk for third, but went down in the whoops. Davalos blew the turn after the mechanic’s area, which allowed Oldenburg to sneak back into the lead, and he took off from there to record the heat race win. Davalos held on for second with Jordan Bailey getting around Falk to take third, Falk fourth, and Josh Osby fifth. Justin Thompson took the final transfer with Jeremy Hand just short.

Austin Forkner, injury and all, still nailed his customary awesome start and led the field into turn one, but Kyle Peters went by in the first rhythm section. Lorenzo Locurcio was through next, then Alex Martin, and finally one of Forkner’s title rivals, Chase Sexton, was in the picture. Sexton pulled off a slick pass after the whoops to get around Forkner. Sexton made his way around Martin and Locurcio next, putting him into second and in hot pursuit of Peters. On Lap four, Sexton went for the lead and Peters went down. Forkner, meanwhile, was struggling and went as far back as seventh place, and at one point it looked like he could be in danger of missing the transfer to the main. Then Ramy Alves crashed and took out his teammate Josh Cartwright, who were the riders just outside the transfer spots looking to apply pressure. Then Peters went down, and then Justin Cooper went down, too. Forkner ended up climbing back to fourth, behind Sexton, Martin and Locurcio. Cooper’s crash was costly but he did salvage fifth. Anthony Rodriguez grabbed the final spot into the main.

450 Heats

Blake Baggett got an absolutely ridiculous jump off the line, getting two bike lengths on everyone coming out of the gate. Then he went wide in turn one, so somehow Eli Tomac ended up with the holeshot. Baggett’s teammate, the surging Justin Bogle, then made the move for second and gave Tomac a challenge for two hard laps. Then Bogle made a mistake in a rhythm lane and Tomac got away. Baggett got into a battle with Justin Hill, and Hill took third away, only for Baggett to get it back. Behind them, Ken Roczen was trying to overcome a bad start and climbed to fifth.

Tomac had the win on lock until he lost the front end in the corner after the whoops, and hit the ground. Bogle sailed by and with that had the heat race win. That’s two-straight weeks with a heat win for Bogle! Tomac picked it up for second, just ahead of the Baggett/Hill battle for third, which was won by Baggett. Roczen got to Hill’s rear wheel on the last lap.

In practice, by the way, Marvin Musquin busted out a triple-quad in a rhythm lane to take top qualifying honors. In this heat, the floodgates opened, as Tomac, Bogle, Hill and Roczen jumped the big rhythm.

In heat two, Zach Osborne grabbed the holeshot just ahead of Marvin Musquin. Marvin was quicker, but Osborne had different lines everywhere and they nearly collided a half dozen times as Marvin would go one way, and Zacho another. Finally Musquin made the move around Osborne getting to the inside before the whoops. That slowed his drive through the whoops and Osborne tried to charge up alongside to re-pass him, but Marvin busted out the triple-quad rhythm to pull away.

Behind them, the returning Justin Brayton and Joey Savatgy were battling for third. Savatgy cased the big triple-quad rhythm, though, and went flying over a berm and into the net. This allowed Cooper Webb, who did not get a good start, to inherit fourth. Webb kept moving around Brayton, and then Osborne bobbled on the last lap, allowing Webb to salvage second. That's pretty much the way things have gone for Webb this season. 

LCQs

In the 250 LCQ, Steven Clarke nailed the holeshot and started pulling away, but behind him the usual craziness ensued as Chase Marquier made a block pass and took down TJ Albright and Dustin Winter. Clarke pulled away while John Short, Marquier and Jeremy Hand battled over the final transfer spots, with Jace Owen in fifth. In heartbreaking fashion, on the last lap Steven Clarke cased a jump while leading and went over the bars and down—and didn’t make the main. Short inherited the win, and Owen grabbed the final transfer spot.

In the 450 LCQ, Joey Savatgy powered his factory Monster Kawasaki KX450 away from the rest of the privateer pack to get the holeshot in this one. Ryan Breece was second and Alex Ray bulldogged his was from about seventh to third. Bubba Pauli was holding onto final spot ahead of Vann Martin. The positions never changed from there, with Savatgy holding on for the win.

250 Main Event

Forkner and Sexton battled down the start stretch for the lead, but both pushed wide and Alex Martin grabbed the lead, and Davalos took over second. Martin led for a half lap, then bobbled in a corner, and Davalos took the lead. A lap later, Martin went down. This left Davalos to fend for the lead against….Forkner! Bad knee and all, Austin found himself stalking for the lead aheas of title rvals Sexton and Cooper. Then disaster struck, as Forkner started pushing and jumped too far off the single after the finish. He landed into the face of the next jump, and that was all his knee could take. He jumped the big triple and then pulled off the track in extreme pain. That was it for Forkner’s night, and most likely his season.

Meanwhile, Sexton rode calm and cool, stalking Davalos and then making the pass for the lead on lap 7. He steadily pulled away from there, now the owner of his first career supercross win and the 250SX East points lead.

Davalos faded at about midway and Cooper and Oldenburg got by. Cooper didn’t have the mojo on this night and his teammate Oldenburg took over second. Cooper took third ahead of Davalos and Hartranft.

“This is an incredible feeling and it couldn't happen to a better guy," said Sexton on NBCSN. "The track was really gnarly, that was the longest 15+ 1 of my life. Honestly, Austin was trying to take me out. You can’t really race like that, I understand we’re racing for a championship but trying to saw off a guy’s front wheel is not cool. I’m pumped, this feels so good. I’ve been waiting on this for two years now.”

450 Main Event

Webb and Osborne battled for the lead off the start, with Webb securing the spot and Osborne quickly getting challenged by Tomac. At the start of lap two Tomac found an inside line on Osborne to take second, and then knifed inside of Webb in the corner after the whoops to take the lead. But Webb, although he only needs to stay safe to maintain his points lead, kept coming back after Tomac, and then repassed him to take the lead. Tomac came right back to make another pass, but Webb stalked him closely for two more laps before making a bobble. At that point, it appeared Tomac had things under control, but then, with 12 minutes to go, Tomac crashed by himself in the whoops! This put Webb into the lead with Osborne still applying pressure, and Baggett joining the party close in third.

With seven minutes to go, Osborne kept pressing Webb, kept pressing him, and then he used a sweet line in the whoops to draw next to him for the lead. Webb fended him off, but Osborne found a good drive through the next whoop section to finally secure the lead. Then a lap later Osborne washed the front in a corner and drifted up a berm, nearly going off the track. He had to slam on the brakes and then nearly drifted back into Webb’s line. Webb escaped narrowly with the lead, while Osborne was left dealing with heat from Baggett, and then Tomac started to sneak back into the picture. In lapped traffic, Tomac got around Baggett, then Baggett lost the front end in a corner and crashed. Tomac got Osborne and started making tracks toward Webb, until he cross-rutted and crashed in the whoops once again. It was an indentical crash to the one he made while leading.

That was the final nail in the coffin, Webb was free to cruise to his seventh win of the season. Osborne was second and Tomac was third, stretching Webb’s point lead to 23 with one race to go. Baggett picked himself up for fourth, and with two laps to go, Musquin, who went down off the start and began the race in last, got around Roczen to take over fifth.

Making Webb's win even more remarkable was the fact that he was apparently sick all day.

"It was tough, I was just getting handed it left and right, guys were making mistakes," said Webb. "It was fun to battle with Eli a little bit, I got tight and he found a flow, then he went down. Battled with Zach a little bit. They gave me some nice gifts and I can’t believe it. I felt like crap all night and all week. The goal was to get top five, to get a win is incredible. It’s crazy how life works. This morning I was puking in the bathroom not knowing how I would do tonight."