Eli Tomac was not just on another level last Saturday, his speed was on another planet. Photo by: Hoppenworld
The 2015 GoPro Hangtown National and the opening round of the 2015 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship has officially come and gone. Leaving the stadiums of Monster Energy Supercross and heading into the opening round of outdoors, Star Racing/Yamaha’s Cooper Webb and Red Bull/KTM’s Marvin Musquin and Ryan Dungey seemed to have all the momentum with their Supercross Championships, but it was two different riders leaving round 1 with the red plates. In the 250MX class, it was the returning Champion, Star Racing/Yamaha’s Jeremy Martin getting the win and GEICO/Honda’s Eli Tomac dominating the 450MX field. While the 250MX class saw two different moto winners—Musquin went 2-1 to Martin’s 1-2—and four different leaders on the day, the 450MX class was a utter shellacking by the #3.
In the fastest lap time battle at round one, it was all Eli Tomac, all day long. The third year 450MX class rider from Colorado was three seconds faster in qualifying, 1.5 seconds a lap faster in moto one and an incredible 5.4 seconds a lap faster than anyone in the final moto of the day. In fact Tomac’s average lap time in moto two (2:09.621) was more than a second faster than Ryan Dungey’s fastest single lap in moto two (2:10.921). In the first moto Dungey kept it to within 1.5 seconds with a 2:06.667 and finished twenty-two seconds behind the #3, but in moto two Tomac checked out to an astonishing one minute and thirty-one second margin. If Eli was looking to make a statement at round one, he made one loud and clear. To put it in even more perspective, the third fastest (2:11.452) lap was recorded by Yoshimura/Suzuki’s Blake Baggett in moto one and that was nearly three full seconds off Tomac’s average lap (2:08.654) in moto one. Simply put, incredible!
| Top 10 450MX Times | Top 10 250MX Times |
|---|---|
| 1. Eli Tomac – 2:05.197 2. Ryan Dungey – 2:06.667 3. Blake Baggett – 2:11.452 4. Jason Anderson – 2:11.532 5. Weston Peick – 2:11.851 6. Christophe Pourcel – 2:12.149 7. Ken Roczen – 2:12.265 8. Brett Metcalfe – 2:12.882 9. Broc Tickle – 2:13.468 10. Justin Barcia – 2:13.468 |
1. Adam Cianciarulo – 2:09.260 2. Cooper Webb – 2:09.476 3. Marvin Musquin – 2:09.522 4. Jeremy Martin – 2:09.632 5. Joey Savatgy – 2:10.314 6. Justin Bogle – 2:10.564 7. Chris Alldredge – 2:11.062 8. Alex Martin – 2:11.638 9. Jessy Nelson – 2:12.191 10. Anthony Rodriguez – 2:12.196 |
In the 250MX class, it was a whole lot closer. The fastest lap was turned in by Monster/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Adam Cianciarulo ,(2:09.260) and there were three other riders—Webb (2:09.476), Musquin (2:09.522) and Martin (2:09.632)—within a half-second of his time. Because of mistakes, Cianciarulo and Webb were 8th and 10th overall while Martin (2-1 moto scores) and Musquin (1-2 moto scores) converted their speed into the top two podium spots on the day. The final spot on the Hangtown National podium was filled by Monster/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Chris Alldredge, who used consistency and the 7th fastest lap (2:11.062) to grab his first-ever podium finish.
You can check out the top ten 250MX and 450MX fastest single lap-times and top ten fastest avergage lap times from the 2015Hangtown National below. Scroll down to see how the four motos broke down lap-for-lap and how the 250’s matched up against the 450 riders on the extremely rough circuit with MotoXAddicts’ lap-time comparison charts.
Full 2015 GoPro Hangtown National results here>>>
| Top 10 450MX Avg Lap-Times | Top 10 250MX Avg Lap-Times |
|---|---|
| 1. Eli Tomac – 2:08.654 2. Ryan Dungey – 2:09.896 3. Jason Anderson – 2:12.932 4. Blake Baggett – 2:13.037 5. Justin Barcia – 2:14.500 6. Christophe Pourcel – 2:14.831 7. Broc Tickle – 2:14.848 8. Weston Peick – 2:15.385 9. Brett Metcalfe – 2:15.726 10. Phil Nicoletti – 2:15.956 |
1. M.arvin Musquin – 2:11.644 2. Jeremy Martin – 2:11.722 3. Copper Webb – 2:12.817 4. Joey Savatgy – 2:12.942 5. Chris Alldredge – 2:13.111 6. Adam Cianciarulo – 2:13.466 7. Alex Martin – 2:13.468 8. Anthony Rodriguez – 2:13.814 9. Aaron Plessinger – 2:14.498 10. Justin Bogle – 2:14.938 |
Each graph charts the lap times of the top five finishers in each moto. You can run your cursor over the lines to see which rider the line signifies and that rider’s time for each lap. Click on a rider’s name on the right to remove them from the chart so you can run riders’ times against each other heads up. Also, scroll down to see how the top three 250MX class finishers matched up against the top three 450MX class finishers.
Click here for the 2015 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship standings>>>
