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Results: St. Louis supercross – Tomac wins as Jett Lawrence taken out!

Jonathan McCready5 mins

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Moto one

Hunter Lawrence holeshot but it was carnage behind him in turn two as Mitchell Oldenburg cased a triple going for the lead and caused a pile-up taking out Ciancuarulo and Sexton with Jett Lawrence also delayed but managed to stay up. Hunter then crashed out of the lead, Ken Roczen had a bike issue as he ran third and Jett came through to second but Tomax held on for the win!

Moto two

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Jett Lawrence and Eli Tomac went head to head for the win in a battle of the generations with Lawrence breaking Tomac to win by 5 seconds and send a message to everyone that he is now the present and future of supercross.

But at the chequered flag, Jett jumped the finish line on a red cross flag, not seeing the flag in question that was out for Vince Friese until he was in the air.

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Cooper Webb had got into third but couldn’t hold the pace of the top two then fell and ended up fifth.

But things changed with Jett getting a 2 spot penalty, Anderson a 4 spot penalty (second violation) with Sexton and Webb also getting 2 spot penalties for jumping on the finish line leaving Tomac with the win and Hunter Lawrence second. Updated second moto results and penalties explained below:

Moto three

Jett’s night went from bad to worse when with Eli out front on lap one and Jett top five, Justin Barcia T-boned Jett off his bike with Jett holding his arm and limping before getting back on the bike.

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Lawrence was a lap down when he remounted and got no points as Tomac won the third moto and the overall with Webb now getting the championship points down to eight with question marks on Jett’s health.

Tomac said: “I had so many questions and doubts in my mind coming in here. This felt like old me. This is awesome.”

Overall

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Moto one

Levi Kitchen passed Beaumer early and checked out for the win as Shimoda finally passed Beaumer for second with Smith, Hampshire and Thrasher all passing Beaumer in two turns. Shimoda held onto second from Smith and Hampshire.

Moto two

Levi Kitchen held off early pressure from Jordon Smith to take the win with Jo Shimoda and RJ Hampshire coming through the field for third and fourth and Mosiman crashed out early in the race and needed medical attention.

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Moto three

Levi Kitchen made it a clean sweep of wins going head to head with RJ Hampshire and coming out on top in the final moto of the night.

Overall

Report: Jonathan McCready

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