Zach Osborne grabbed the holeshot in the 450SX Class Main Event with Webb back in fourth, Tomac buried at eleventh, and second-in-points Team Honda HRC’s Ken Roczen losing a gamble with a far-inside gate pick and exiting the first corner in 16th place. Roczen made moves quickly, blitzing the whoops and passing both Tomac and Smartop / BullFrog Spas / Motoconcepts Honda’s Justin Hill in one move while Webb climbed to second. For over eight intense minutes Roczen and Tomac battled each other as they climbed through the pack; Tomac finally broke free of the Honda rider and set his sights on the front.

With 3:40 left on the clock, Webb got around Osborne for the lead; just over a minute later Tomac was also around Osborne and quickly closed on Webb. But Webb kept his composure and held the Kawasaki rider off to grab his second win of the season, his ninth 450SX Class career victory. The win also breaks a sort of ‘Round 12 curse’ in which Webb had never before podiumed at the round. With 29 points to make up in the five remaining rounds, Webb will need more strong performances and a few lucky breaks to successfully defend his Supercross title. Second in the points, Ken Roczen, dropped to thirteen points back with a disappointing fifth-place finish.

Fresh off his second win of 2020, Webb said, “It was a great night overall, to get a second off the start. Zach was really riding well there at the beginning. I was trying to put in just some good, good laps, and I could see Eli was kinda coming to catch us. At the end I knew I needed to get around him and try to break away. And yeah, it was a tough race, track conditions were definitely tricky. You had to be patient out there. The whoops were tough; I just committed to my line from the beginning and it played out pretty well, so it was a great, great night. To get a win, it’s awesome. These are not easily gained, especially with the top guys up here tonight. So, I want just soak it in.”

Shane McElrath won his second consecutive race, his third of the season. It puts him into a tie in the Eastern Regional 250SX Class title chase. Photo Credit: Feld Entertainment, Inc.

In Eastern Regional 250SX Class racing, Shane McElrath took the win in the 6th round of the regional division; it was McElrath’s fourth consecutive win at the venue. The holeshot went to McElrath’s Monster Energy / Star Yamaha Racing teammate Colt Nichols, who led for the first six of twenty laps and finished in second. Third on the podium was GEICO Honda’s Jeremy Martin. After a sixth-place start, points leader GEICO Honda’s Sexton began moving toward the front, but one minute into the race Sexton washed out his front wheel on a corner entrance and went down. The mistake was compounded when Troy Lee Designs / Red Bull / KTM’s Pierce Brown, with nowhere to go, came to a stop atop Sexton’s bike. The Honda rider remounted in 17th position and charged hard to reach fourth place. The finish put the two top riders, McElrath and Sexton, tied in points with two more Eastern Regional 250SX rounds plus the points-paying East/West Showdown to determine the 2020 champion.