Steve Cox | April 29, 2017
2017 New Jersey 250 Supercross Results: Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki’s Joey Savatgy came into the penultimate round of the 2017 250cc Eastern Regional Supercross Championship with a six-point lead over his closest competitor in terms of points, TLD/Red Bull KTM’s Jordon Smith. However, lurking only six points farther back was Rockstar Energy Husqvarna’s Zach Osborne, whose bad luck in Detroit cost him the points lead that up until that point he had been rather dominant in attaining. With a few weeks off following the St. Louis round while the West guys got back going again, Osborne came out swinging in New Jersey.
2017 New Jersey 250 Supercross Results
Osborne set the fastest time in qualifying, and just as he had in his three previous wins during the 2017 season, he had to come from behind in the main event. He did, and made it look easy in the process.
Savatgy’s teammate Adam Cianciarulo got the holeshot, but Savatgy was immediately by and into the lead over Cianciarulo, while Yamalube/Star Racing Yamaha’s Dylan Ferrandis fought off the GEICO Honda pair of Christian Craig and his new teammate Cameron McAdoo.
Osborne started mid-pack and rounded lap one in seventh place.
Still, Osborne was on fire, as he fought his way through the frontrunners to take the lead from Savatgy at the halfway point in the 15-minute timed main event, then he began pulling away.
By himself in second, Savatgy went down a few laps later when he hit a kicker in a rhythm section and went down in an adjacent lane. He got back up and going as quickly as he could, and even technically cut a bit of the course off since he continued forward from the spot in which he crashed rather than returning to the lane he came from. Ferrandis took over second, and Savatgy third, and that’s how they’d finish.
Osborne took his fourth main-event win of the season over Ferrandis, Savatgy, Smith, Cianciarulo and Craig. Then came JGR Suzuki’s Kyle Cunningham, Luke Renzland, McAdoo and Anthony Rodriguez completing the list of racers who finished on the lead lap.
Savatgy now carries a seven-point lead over Osborne as the series heads to Las Vegas for the finale next weekend. And while that might sound like plenty of room to work with, the Vegas event is a combine East/West event, meaning that the top guys from both coasts will be fighting it out over points in the final 250cc Supercross of 2017.
Mathematically, if Osborne can manage to win in Las Vegas, Savatgy can’t afford to finish off the podium, or the title goes to Osborne.
2017 New Jersey 250 Supercross Results
2017 New Jersey 250 Supercross Results
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