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The first lap was clustered and Bloss got tangled up in wreckage and found himself back in twentieth place. He takes a moment to recover but begins to regain ground in the third lap, moving up into nine- teenth, then quickly to seventeenth. Bloss finds himself fending off Tonus with two laps to go. In the final lap Bloss moves up around Ward into sixteenth place. He finishes fourteenth – and has to move
to the LCQ.
Bloss dodges a wreck in the first turn to hold on to a spot in the top six. He finds himself in a tight battle between Rodriguez and Tonus. Bloss would make a pass on Rodriguez with two laps to go. In the final lap, Bloss keeps catching up to Albertston all the way until the finish line, but hangs onto a solid third place finish.
The main event was the moment that Bloss has been dreaming of for not just weeks – but years. When the gate dropped down into that tacky Georgia clay, this 18-year-old was about to pin the throttle on the beginning of his Monster Energy Supercross career.
As the massive line up of riders packed into the first turn, Bloss escapes unscathed, but with a lot of ground to cover from fifteenth place. Bloss drops back to sixteenth as laps go on, but he turns his race around in a fierce battle with Audette and Weltin. Bloss swaps places with both riders, going from fifteenth to sixteenth to fifteenth again, but by the finish line flag the young rookie made his way all the way up to thirteenth overall. It’s never common for a rookie rider to hit the stage and blow away the competition – but to be able to make your way through a pack of some of the best 250 riders in the world, that’s no small feat.
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