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“Nonetheless, the talk of Houston was the performance of Chase Sexton, earning his first career
opportunity to build his advantage in the championship, eliminating one of his fiercest rivals from contention, but the Frenchman made mistakes of his own. The Factory KTM rider took a tumble in the whoops section during his heat race and injured his shoulder, causing him to forfeit the rest of the evening. As two of the sports most popular riders sat on the sidelines for the second 450SX main event of the year, it opened up the door for another rider
to rise to the occasion. Jason Anderson took the invitation with open arms, but not without a little bit of resistance from the likes of Ken Roczen and Justin Barcia. It was only Anderson’s third career 450SX victory, but
it was clear that he was just getting started. Meanwhile, the 250SX West division was just heating up as the top four in
the championship continued
to separate themselves from
the rest of the field, but not without the company of the Geico Honda team. Aaron Plessinger laid down one of
the most impressive rides
of his career as he scorched through the field from nearly last to first, Shane McElrath
had a scary near-crash as he landed on a tuff block, Joey Savatgy made it back to the podium, and Adam Cianciarulo crashed three times in the main event and still finished seventh. Nonetheless, the talk of Houston was the performance of Chase Sexton, earning his first career supercross podium only a couple of ticks off the leaders. The next round at Anaheim 2 would present the riders with the first Triple Crown in Monster Energy Supercross history, boasting a total of six main events.
supercross podium only a couple of ticks off the leaders.
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