Eli Tomac took a big win tonight in Detroit’s Ford Field. Photo By Hoppenworld.com
KTM riders Ryan Dungey and Marvin Musquin have swept the podiums at the last three races, but tonight in Detroit it was GEICO Honda riders Eli Tomac and Justin Bogle topping both rostrums, winning both the 450SX and 250SX classes at the 12th round of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross Series in Ford Field.
In the 450 class, Dungey got out to a quick start, passing BTO Sports KTM’s Andrew Short on the opening lap to take the lead, however, Tomac ran down the hard-charging Dungey and made a perfect execution of a difficult quad-jump into a right-hander to put a nice block-pass on Dungey to take over the top spot on lap five of the 20-lap main event.
Tomac led the remaining 15 laps as he steadily increased his lead to nearly 12 seconds by the end of the race. The win was Tomac’s second of the season.
Meanwhile, after claiming his third heat race win of the season, Team Honda HRC’s Cole Seely continues to get good starts and ran fourth behind Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Davi Millsaps but took over third when Millsaps bobbled on lap four.
Discount Tires/TwoTwo Motorsports Kawasaki’s Chad Reed ran a solid and consistent race, running fifth for the first half of the race before he, too, passed Millsaps and moved into fourth for the remainder of the race.
Millsaps held on for fifth, while Reed’s teammate Josh Grant turned in one of his best performances for sixth.
Even though Dungey finished second on the difficult Detroit course, the KTM rider still managed to increase his lead in the overall standings due to the fact that the runner-up in the points heading into tonight’s race, Team Honda HRC’s Trey Canard, crashed with Jake Weimer during his heat race and according to a source at Honda may have suffered a fractured lower left arm. He is expected to visit his personal doctor when he gets home.
Heading into next week’s round in St. Louis, Dungey maintains a comfortable lead in the standings with 271 points, followed by Canard with 204 and Tomac with 194.
450SX Class Results
1. Eli Tomac (Honda)
2. Ryan Dungey (KTM)
3. Cole Seely (Honda)
4. Chad Reed (Kawasaki)
5. Davi Millsaps (Kawasaki)
6. Josh Grant (Kawasaki)
7. Broc Tickle (Suzuki)
8. Blake Baggett (Suzuki)
9. Andrew Short (KTM)
10. Justin Brayton (KTM)
