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JUSTIN BRAYTON
450 SX / 8TH
IMAGE / KILPATRICK WORDS / ARMSTRONG DESIGN / MOTOPLAYGROUND
>> The #10 of Justin Brayton will have a hard time triumphing his results and accomplishments that he has achieved in 2018. Justin has been able to win his rst ever Supercross main event and he is the oldest rider to win a race as well. Not only has Justin done that but after 15 rounds of racing he is currently sitting 4th in points. Since making such advancements in his riding Brayton has been offered with addition support through Honda as his MotoConcepts Smart- Top BullFrogSpa’s Honda isn’t a HRC Factory Honda. Brayton was obviously thrilled with the support but he didn’t have to take much more help and only got a few small things for his machine. He doesn’t want to change up to much and loose his comfort zone with the bike.
Justin was a touch off of the pace of the leaders in qualifying today in Foxbor- ough as his fastest lap was a 54.709 which was 2.173 seconds slower than Eli Tomacs. The track got really soft early in the day and rutted up quickly which made it a track that didn’t exactly t Braytons riding style.
When the gate dropped in the heat race Brayton was just out of the top 5 in 6th and quickly got up to 4th. The #69 of Bowers applied a lot of pressure
to Brayton but the 450 veteran was able to keep his composure and fend of Kawasaki rider. @justinbrayton was in 7th on the rst lap in the main event but dropped to 10th on lap two. Soon a battle of the Justin’s was in progress Bray- ton and Barcia started to battle for 10th. Brayton couldn’t hold of Barcia and went to 11th. JB10 got around a few downed riders and made a pass on Friese through the whoops to get to 8th where he went on to nish.
60 GRITMOTO • APRIL 22, 2018