Christian Craig and Jo Shimoda had a unique battle for the win in the AusX Supercross in Perth that had everyone confused thanks to medical flags following a big crash for Aaron Tanti!
Craig holeshot with Shimoda second but two rhythm sections had a mix of yellow and red cross flags with Shimoda believing he was allowed to jump the end of a rhythm lane with Craig not jumping! This let Shimoda make the pass with Craig furious and confused!
Amazingly, they both rolled the whoops the next time round looking at each other both seemingly baffled as to what they were supposed to do!
Once the medical flags were removed, Craig put a block pass on Shimoda but when Shimoda went to return the favour he went down letting Craig cruise to the win! Cedric Soubeyras took second with Austin Politelli third and a deflated Shimoda ninth until he crashed again, this time in the whoops and DNF’d!
Craig said: “When those red cross flag came out I was super cautious. It’s a shame Jo crashed, it would have been a good six laps to the end of the main.”
SX1 results:
The 250 main event was epic. Dylan Walsh took the holeshot but two crashes ended his night as Hicks took the lead on the Stark but McAdoo was on the move, coming from eighth and passing his teammates Kingsford and Connelly before taking the lead from Hicks.
But the man to watch was Anstie who came from nearly last off the start after getting caught behind Kingsford crashing in turn one. Anstie was relentless getting into second with six laps to go and slowly but surely reeling in McAdoo and got right on his rear wheel on the last lap with one slight mistake from McAdoo giving Anstie the opportunity to strike just before the checkered flag to take a brilliant win!
Anstie said: “Oh, yeah, it (heart rate) was pretty high, but I’ve got to give up to the crowd man. It was pretty cool, I could definitely hear you guys. I’m glad I got to put on a show for you. We had a few more laps this weekend, so I thought I could charge my way forward. Still need to dial in those starts though for the final round in Sydney coming up.”
McAdoo commented: “Yeah, that’s what I’ve been asking for is 15 laps, so one mistake cost that much, right?…a race win. It’s been a long time since I’ve won something and that one stings, but I’m grateful to be in the position I’m in”.
Unfortunately Lux Turner had a mechanical while leading his heat race and, with no LCQ, Turner was out for the night all but ending his chance of a title against McAdoo in a strange decision from the organisers with no LCQ meaning the crowd didn’t get to see a title contender in the main event.
SX2 results:
Get highlights from both classes below via AusX IG:
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