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The second and final day of the Navy Moto X World Championships featured the finals for Step-Up, Freestyle and Moto X Racing. The first of those was Step-Up, which saw Ricky Carmichael facing off against the Step-Up veterans Matt Buyten, Ronnie Renner, Tommy Clowers, and many more.
Carmichael picked up where he left off on Saturday by clearing the bar easily at 26 feet, and then again at 29 feet, as did many of the rest. At 35 feet, Carmichael cleared the bar with seeming ease in his first try, but he hit the ground a ton and hit his chin on his handlebars on his way over the bars. He fell, which negated his clearance of the bar, and his chin/jaw injury forced him out of the competition. Still, he never once hit the bar in any attempt over two days of competition.
With Carmichael out, the only other two riders left, Renner and Buyten, both failed to clear the bar at 35 feet, so they went into “sudden death”. They flipped a coin to see who would go first, and Buyten won the coin flip, then they moved the starting line back five feet, where first Buyten and then Renner failed to make the height. Then they moved the starting line back another five feet, where Buyten made the height, which gave him the win, much to Renner’s chagrin.
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“I’d never heard of ‘sudden death’ before,” Buyten said, “but I’m sure if the shoe was on the other foot,
After Step-Up, all attention turned to Moto X Racing, where Boost Mobile/Yamaha of Troy’s Jason Lawrence sported the fastest practice time and was the favorite to win. Lawrence won his Heat race going away, but in the main event, he went down at the end of the track’s first rhythm section while trying to pass Red Bull/TLD Honda’s Gavin Gracyk, taking Gracyk with him. Lawrence pulled out of the event shortly thereafter, thinking about the Lites West championship he’s got to try to win in a couple weeks.
The crash handed the lead to Yamaha’s Broc Hepler, who led the rest of the race over MDK KTM’s Nick Wey, while Wey’s teammate Justin Brayton battled it out with Suzuki-mounted Josh Hansen. Eventually, Hansen crashed out of the battle and Brayton secured third.
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For Hepler, though, it was his first race in over three months, and he won.
“I honestly didn’t even plan on racing,” Hepler said. “I just flew out last weekend and figured I would try practice last Wednesday, and I felt all right, so I went ahead and decided to race. Good thing, I guess.”
In Freestyle, Target Yamaha’s Nate Adams returned to form to dominate the proceedings, winning with a 93.80 over Jeremy “Twitch” Stenberg’s 92-point score. Jeremy Lusk was third with a 90.
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