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The fourth round of the 2017 AMSOIL Arenacross season featured arguably the most competitive battle for victory in the championship thus far inside Bridgestone Arena. For the first time this season, the 250AX Class featured two different Main Event winners, but the rider who emerged with the overall victory was a familiar one, with TiLUBE/Jack Link’s/TUF Racing Honda’s Jace Owen claiming his
fourth win of the season to extend his points lead. In the Eastern Regional AX Lites Class, Babbitt’s/ GPF/Monster Energy Kawasaki/MMCR’s Jacob Williamson became the third different winner in that championship. Before the Main Events got underway, defending AMSOIL Arenacross Champion and Team Babbitt’s/Monster Energy/AMSOIL Kawasaki, presented by AP Design, rider Gavin Faith earned his third RMATV/MC Head 2 Head Challenge win of the season, defeating Rockstar Energy/OTSFF/Yamaha, in association with Cycle Trader and Rock River, rider Chris Blose. The triumphant effort gave Faith two championship bonus points. Faith was able to carry that momentum into the first 250AX Class Main Event, securing the holeshot ahead of TiLUBE/Jack Link’s/TUF Racing Honda’s Ben Lamay and Rockstar Energy/OTSFF/Yamaha’s Matt Goerke, while Owen slotted into fourth. Almost immediately Faith and Lamay set a torrid pace out front, which allowed them to open a gap over Goerke in third. The lead group settled in through the mid portion of the 15-lap Main Event. Faith and Lamay remained separated by mere tenths of a second, but Goerke continued to lose ground to Owen and on Lap 9 the duo engaged in a battle for third, with Owen ultimately taking over the position.
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