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Justin Brayton has looked great all year and looked to keep it up in Foxboro. The veteran BTO Sports
KTM rider put together a pretty solid qualifying effort in the mud coming away with the ninth best time.
Brayton has excelled in the heat races this season and he was ready to qualify straight through yet again.
Consistency is one of the biggest elements to success in supercross and Brayton has epitomized that this year. He showed why in the heat race where he rocketed out of the gate for a third place start but the race was red flagged so they had to rerack. On the restart, Brayton came around the first turn in third place yet again in almost a déjà vu of the first start. He would maintain that position for the remainder of the race by logging good laps and staying smooth. He aimed to the same in the main event.
Brayton could not log another great start in the main event and started mired in tenth place. By this point, the track was insanely rough making clean laps very hard to come by and Brayton found that out the hard way. After stalking Josh Grant for a majority of the first half of the race in eighth place, he could not find a way around forcing him to try some different lines. Those lines caused mistakes from Brayton and he lost a lot of ground on Grant and eventually started losing positions. The second half of the race did not go well for Brayton at all as he looked out of sorts and not the usual smooth consistent ride we usually see from him. When it was all said and done, Brayton finished twelfth place. Not the ride or finish he wanted but it was an outlier in what has been a very consistent season for the rider from Iowa. We can expect him to rebound big and come out swinging next week in the Big Apple.
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