Steve Cox | April 21, 2018
2018 Foxborough 250cc Supercross Results: All day inside Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, GEICO Honda’s Jeremy Martin was the cream of the crop. He was fastest by a lot. He even won his heat race, which is rare for the two-time outdoor champ. But when the main event came around, Martin didn’t get the start, then went down on the second straightaway of the race. He had another incident a few laps later.
He was still the fastest guy on the track, but not fast enough to catch points leader Zach Osborne, who grabbed the holeshot on his Rockstar Energy Husqvarna and checked out to win his third 250cc Main Event of the year.
2018 Foxborough 250cc Supercross Results
Osborne led every lap over TLD/Red Bull KTM’s Jordon Smith, who hung around in second for all 17 laps around the rapidly deteriorating surface in the rare daytime supercross race.
Smith’s teammate Sean Cantrell ran third during the opening grip of laps, but a fall late in the race handed third to AutoTrader/JGR Suzuki’s Kyle Peters, who suffered a torn ACL and MCL in his left knee last week in Minneapolis.
2018 Foxborough 250cc Supercross Results
As the laps wore down, Martin showed back up near the front, ripping off the fastest laptimes on the track on his slightly bent CRF250R. Martin passed top privateer Josh Osby for fifth with just a few laps left, then zapped Cantrell for fourth with two to go. With a gap of about 8 seconds between himself and Peters in third, Osborne put in a charge, but came up less than a second and a half short at the finish line.
2018 Foxborough 250cc Supercross Results
For Osborne, the win extended his points advantage to 15 with only one race left in the 250cc East, making the odds of him successfully defending his title pretty strong in Vegas in two weeks. For Peters, it was like a win, struggling with his fresh injury and snagging his first podium finish.
And for Martin, it was just one of those “what if” kinds of races. Martin now trails Osborne by 23 in the championship chase, which makes winning the title a near impossibility.
But there’s no doubt that Martin has figured out his setup and is now a consistent force to be reckoned with in supercross, which hasn’t really been the case up to this point in his racing career.
2018 Foxborough 250cc Supercross Results
2018 Foxborough 250cc Supercross Results
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