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the first gate pick proved to work into sewell’s favor to start the second main event as he once again put his Ktm into the lead, once again ahead of hayes and faith. steinke started fourth, with sexton fifth. on Lap 2 steinke encountered misfortune, allowing sexton to move into fourth and Blose into fifth. from there the top five went unchanged until hayes was able to make a pass on sewell for the lead on Lap 12. however, hayes’ lead was short lived as sewell bounced back to reclaim control of the race on the following lap. sewell held on to win by just over a second of hayes, with faith third, sexton fourth and Blose fifth.
sewell’s 1-1 effort, combined with his head 2 head Challenge win, easily gave him the overall win, three points ahead of hayes in second (2-2). faith rounded out the overall podium in third (3-3), with sexton cap- ping off his debut weekend of ricky Carmichael’s road to supercross in fourth (5-4). tiLUBe/tuf honda’s Ben Lamay was fifth (6-6). Kawasaki had opened the season with seven consecutive victories, six by the team Babbitt’s squad, but sewell ended that run and now has five main event wins this season, one shy of the class leader hayes.
hayes maintained control of the arenacross Class points lead and now has a nine-point advantage over faith. Blose sits third, 20 points behind hayes, with sewell fourth, just two points behind Blose, and Lamay fifth. rockstar energy husqvarna factory racing’s Kyle regal, the defending amsoiL arenacross Champion, missed his second race with injury and dropped to sixth in the points.
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