RedBud

July 7, 2018

450 Moto 1
Blake Baggett got the holeshot with Eli Tomac quickly working up to second place. Marvin Musquin and Justin Barcia had early crashes and were in the back of the pack. Toward the end of the first lap, Baggett crashed, surrendering the lead to Tomac. Once he took the lead, Tomac looked like he was going to cruise to a win, when he suddenly had bike troubles with 3 laps remaining and pulled out of the race. Ken Roczen inherited the lead and took his first moto win in 2 years.
450 Moto 2
Justin Bogle got the holeshot and led most of the first lap before giving way to Musquin and Roczen and then stalling out and falling to the back of the pack. Tomac had a bad start and had to work his way through the pack and was up to about sixth place before a crash dropped him to 14th place. Musquin held on to first place with pressure from Roczen most of the way. Barcia passed Roczen for second place about a half lap before the checkered flag.
250 Moto 1
Austin Forkner took the holeshot but quickly got passed by Shane McElrath. Alex Martin, Joey Savatgy and Aaron Plessinger spent the first lap shuffling with Forkner for the spots behind McElrath. Six minutes into the race Plessinger took the lead by passing McElrath on LaRocco’s leap. With about 10 minutes left Forkner passed Plessinger for the lead. A couple turns later Plessinger made a pass on Forkner and created contact that caused Forkner to crash and out of the race. Plessinger held on for the win.
250 Moto 2
Plessinger emerged as the early leader with Savatgy and Martin running second and third. While Martin was pushing Savatgy for second, Forkner came up and began to push Martin. Halfway through the race Martin finally got past Savatgy, and Forkner also passed him shortly later. Then Forkner got past Martin half a lap later. Nobody ever got close to Plessinger.