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to be cautious. Sometimes you’d get on the gas
and the rear end would just light up. Other times
the front would wash on you. So you just had to
be careful and ride to the conditions. That’s why it
was harder. I felt like you could have pushed harder,
but if you pushed harder you ended up crashing.
I struggled today in the John Penton, actually.
I feel like I would catch up, I’d get closer and then
I’d lose all the time that I had caught up. So it was
a bit frustrating there today but it was all right.”
FactoryONE Sherco’s Grant Baylor grabbed his
second podium of the season for Sherco.
“It was a pretty good day for me,” said Baylor. “I
had a pretty bad start. The bike just didn’t want to
fire for some reason, but we got going and started
making our way through the pack there. I think
I made my way up to fifth or something on the
first lap there. Next lap might have been fourth
and the next lap might have been third. Then just
kind of stayed there the rest of the race. I hit the
ground a couple times today. Wasn’t a flawless
day. I caught Strang here about two miles from the
end. I was right up on his rear wheel and just spun
out and fell down, so that cost me being able to
maybe make a move there in the last little bit. We
had to settle with third, but I’m happy to be back
on the podium.”
Rockstar Energy Husqvarna’s Craig Delong
turned in his most impressive performance of the
season, finishing fifth overall and winning the XC2
Pro 250 class by a three-minute margin over Beta
USA’s Cody Barnes.
“The only thing that could have went better was
my start,” said DeLong. “I was trying to get it ready
to start, and it started before I wanted it to so I had
to shut it back off. That kind of left me a little un-