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JIMMY DECOTIS
250 SX / 10TH
IMAGE / KILPATRICK
WORDS / SCHUBERT DESIGN / MOTOPLAYGROUND
>> James Decotis set himself up with a good top ten qualifying time of 56.0 and was looking to carrying the fast laps into the night shows. James found himself in sixteenth place coming out of the rst turn in the rst main event but was able to make two quick rst lap passes putting him into fourteenth place before starting the second lap. James would continue to charge forward on his Autotrader / JGR / Yoshimura / Suzuki Factory Racing machine throwing down fast con- sistent laps. Decotis was able to pass Heath Harrison, Kyle Peters, Nick Gaines and the Troy Lee Designs / Red Bull / KTM rider Sean Cantrell putting him into tenth place but after a hard fought battle with Nick Gaines Decotis would nd himself back in eleventh but only long enough to reestablish an attack on Gaines and continue the charge forward. James was able to pass Martin Davalos due to a crash but Davalos was able to answer back passing Decotis and keep- ing him in tenth place. James wasn’t wasn’t going to give up his charge until the race was over and it paid off making a pass on Anthony Rodriguez earning himself a ninth place at the nish of main event number one. In main event number two James got tangled up with Colt Nichols and Jeremy Martin resulting in a twenty rst place start but he quickly found his rhythm and started checking off positions passing Heath Harrison, Josh Osby, Zack Williams, Chris Blose and a crashed out Dylan Ferrandis putting the Autotrader / JGR / Yoshimura / Suzuki Factory Racing machine into sixteenth place. Decotis kept up the charge like he did in the rst main event and again it paid off with two last minute passes earning James fourteenth for main event number two. The third main event follow the script of the rst and second main events James got off to
a bad start but again was able to work his way through the pack quicklyAnd found himself up to twelfth place before the rst lap was nished. Decotis Continue to charge as he did throughout the day passing Michael Mosiman getting into eleventh but James was hungry for that top ten nish and quickly was able to check off Nick Gaines putting Decotis into tenth. A mistake by Martin Davalos resulting in a crash gave Decotis the opportunity to get into ninth place and he took it, but was quickly met by the Rockstar Energy / Husqvarna Factory Racing rider Zach Os- borne putting Decotis back to tenth place. Despite getting the ninth place taken from him James was eager to get it back, James took ninth place for Chris Blose but decided that wasn’t good enough and continued to charge to the nish passing Brandon Hartranft setting himself up with an 8th place at the checkers for the third main event and a tenth overall for then night.
54 GRITMOTO • MARCH 4, 2018