On The Pegs January 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 1 | Page 100

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Californian worked his way up early on but a crash dropped him back once again
before battling his way back up to third.
Aiming to take the hat-trick, Taddy fell early in the third heat and was placed
dead-last at the beginning of the opening lap. Charging hard, he got his head
down and proceeded to pick off the riders ahead of him, ultimately battling his
way through to fourth at the line – enough to claim the overall event win and
with it the championship lead heading into round two in Germany.
Battling for the race win with teammate Gomez, a small mistake and crash in
the rock garden proved costly for Haaker. Quickly regrouping to finish a close
third, he ended his night third overall.
Webb, on the other hand, got a good jump off the line and filed into second
early on, but went down while passing for the lead. Webb quickly re-mounted
and continued a back-and-forth battle with EnduroCross rival Haaker. In the end,
Webb secured second in the final race and second overall for the night.
Blazusiak was pleased to start the season with a win.
“The whole event has been amazing,” said Blazusiak. “Race one went perfectly,
I was able to get out in front and set my own pace to take the win. Race two
was pretty much the same, I had quite a lot of pressure from the guys behind
and made a couple of mistakes, but I was able to put in some fast lap times and