“I didn’t make a single mistake the whole race which is pretty amazing for how slick this track is and I just rode my comfort zone,” Ward said after his race two win. “So hopefully tomorrow it’s enough to do it again.”

Ward led the first race for three laps before being passed by Graves Motorsports Yamaha’s Mark Burkhart. Once out front, Burkhart controlled the pace, winning his second race of the season, this time by .0697 seconds.

“I knew (Ward) was behind me the whole time and I just…I didn’t want to make any mistakes at all,” Burkhart said after race one. “I knew he’d get by if I did or make a move. I just kind of tried to ride smooth and not screw up at all.”

Ward got the jump in race two and led flag to flag, easily holding off Graves Motorsports Yamaha’s Doug Henry. The margin of victory was 1.685 seconds, though Ward led by more than five seconds late in the race.

“I’m just hoping I do as good tomorrow and just stay up and make it through the day, which I feel we can,” Ward, who now leads Henry 250 to 234 after 12 of 20 races, said. “But 16 points, which I think I have, is nothing when there’s 50 points tomorrow. One DNF and he’s got a 10 point lead, so I have to be smart.”

Henry finished a distant third to Burkhart and Ward in race one.

Burkhart had a more eventful second race, falling on the opening lap in the dirt section and dropping to 22nd place. He made his way through the field and was battling Team Red Bull KTM HMC’s Jurgen Kunzel for sixth when he ran into Kunzel on the eighth of 14 laps. Kunzel got up and finished 15th, Burkhart retired.

The DNF dropped Burkhart to fourth in the point standings behind Team Troy Lee Designs Honda's Chris Fillmore, who carded a 4-3 evening.

The race was held in and around the parking lot of Invesco Field at Mile High, home of the Denver Broncos. There were two distinct sections, a tight and twisty asphalt section, in the parking lot, and a dirt section that was elevated 125 feet above the parking lot. The asphalt was slick and the lighting patchy once night fell, and passing was difficult.

Graves Motorsports Yamaha’s Brandon Currie ended the perfect season of Team Troy Lee Designs Honda's Cassidy Anderson in the Supermoto Lites race, but it wasn’t easy.

For the first 11 laps Currie led and Anderson stalked, a constant presence Then on lap 12 Anderson made a mistake in the dirt section and Currie had the breathing room he needed. He went on to win by 9.138 seconds.

“The championship’s way more important than an undefeated season,” Anderson said. “Obviously, I’m going to try and win every time I’m out on the track. But all in all, the championship’s my number one priority.

Currie said he knew Anderson “was there the whole time and it definitely makes you nervous because one little mistake and he goes by. I made a few mistakes. I shifted into neutral once through the whoops and he actually passed me in the whoops, but he didn’t have the line in the next berm, so I got back around him. And I just got to keep working hard and come back this last part of the season and hopefully we can come up for the championship.”

Red Baron Racing’s David Pingree was third.

Anderson leads Currie by 18 points, 147 to 129, after six of 10 races.

All Access Racing’s Micky Dymond caught a break in the AMA Supermoto Unlimited race when fast starter and early leader Ben Carlson (KTM) was given a stop-and-go penalty for jumping the start.

Team Red Bull KTM HMC’s Carlson disagreed with the penalty, but served it dutifully, dropping from the lead to fifth place when he pulled in at the end of the fourth lap. He recovered one place to finish fourth.

Once Dymond inherited the lead he had his hands full with Frenchman David Baffeleuf (Hus). Baffeleuf said Dymond was better in the whoops section, but that he was better on the asphalt. At the end it was Dymond by 1.731 seconds.

“David (Baffeleuf) just ate me up on the pavement, so I was just nervous the whole race with him right there,” Dymond said. “The only place I could get a little bit on him was in the whoops and I made one mistake all race and I went over the berm and he got back by me, but I was able to get right back by. That was the race.”

BP Racing’s Leonardo Bagnis (KTM) was third.

Dymond and Baffeleuf are tied in Unlimited points with 114 after six of 10 rounds. Carlson is third at 109.

SUPERMOTO RACE ONE:

1. Mark Burkhart (Yam)

2. Jeff Ward (Hon)

3. Doug Henry (Yam)

4. Chris Fillmore (Hon)

5. Jurgen Kunzel (KTM)

6. Kurt Nicoll (KTM)

7. Josh Chisum (KTM)

8. Joe Kopp (Hon)

9. Matt Burton (Yam)

10. Travis Ellis (Hon)

SUPERMOTO RACE TWO:

1. Jeff Ward (Hon)

2. Doug Henry (Yam)

3. Chris Fillmore (Hon)

4. Kurt Nicoll (KTM)

5. Troy Herfoss (Husq)

6. Josh Chisum (KTM)

7. Travis Marks (Hon)

8. Jason Conlon (Hon)

9. Joe Kopp (Hon)

10. Travis Ellis (Hon)

SUPERMOTO LITES:

1. Brandon Currie (Yam)

2. Cassidy Anderson (Hon)

3. David Pingree (KTM)

4. Larry Pegram (KTM)

5. Casey Yarrow (Yam)

6. Dalton Dimick (Hon)

7. Matt Abbott (Kaw)

8. Robbie Horton (Kaw)

9. Alexandre Thiebault (Hus)

10. Leonardo Bagnis (KTM)

SUPERMOTO UNLIMITED:

1. Micky Dymond (KTM)

2. David Baffeleuf (Husq)

3. Leonardo Bagnis (KTM)

4. Ben Carlson (KTM)

5. Darryl Atkins (Apr)

6. John Lewis (KTM)

7. Robert Loire (Hus)

8. Nick Daniels (Husq)

9. Brandon Stooksbury (KTM)

10. Zeb Armstrong (KTM)