Ryan Dungey was the fastest overall, but a moto two crash cost him a chance at the overall win. Photo by: Hoppenworld
The 2015 Budds Creek National and the sixth round of the 2015 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship was blasted by Mother Nature on Saturday. After rain pelted the Mechanicsville, Maryland circuit all morning and the final 450MX moto of the day was delayed due to high winds, lightning and even tornado warnings, it was JGRMX/Yamaha’s Justin Barcia getting his first ever 450MX overall win with a 3-1 score and Red Bull/KTM’s Marvin Musquin getting his third-straight overall win of 2015 with a 7-1 score.
In the fastest lap time battle at round six, it was Ryan Dungey recording the fastest lap of the day (2:05.786) for the second time in 2015. The second fastest lap was laid down by RCH/Soaring Eagle/Suzuki’s Ken Roczen, but neither Roczen nor Dungey were consistent enough to land on the podium at round six. The rain progressively got worse all day long, so all the fastest overall 450MX laps were clocked in the opening motos of the day. To put in perspective how bad the track deteriorated throughout the day, the fastest lap recorded in the final 450MX moto of the day was Barcia 2:21.648—sixteen seconds slower than Dungey’s moto one time.
The third forth and fifth fastest laps were recorded by the Yoshimura/Suzuki’s Blake Baggett (2:06.416), Rockstar/Husqvarna’s Christophe Pourcel (2:06.972) and Justin Barcia (2:07.378), who also coincidentally occupied the podium. Barcia ripped the holeshot in the deep mud of moto two and ran away with the win and the overall while Pourcel’s 2-3 outscored Baggett’s 4-2 for the final two spots on the box.
| Top 10 450MX Times | Top 10 250MX Times |
|---|---|
| 1. Ryan Dungey – 2:05.786 2. Ken Roczen – 2:06.416 3. Blake Baggett – 2:06.936 4. Christophe Pourcel – 2:06.972 5. Justin Barcia – 2:07.378 6. Broc Tickle – 2:08.714 7. Jason Anderson – 2:09.748 8. Freddie Noren – 2:09.886 9. Wil Hahn – 2:10.145 10. Weston Peick – 2:10.651 |
1. Adam Cianciarulo – 2:09.433 2. Marvin Musquin – 2:09.592 3. Jeremy Martin – 2:12.005 4. Alex Martin – 2:12.345 5. Zach Osborne – 2:12.386 6. Joey Savatgy – 2:12.456 7. Matt Bisceglia – 2:13.020 8. Cooper Webb – 2:13.212 9. Christian Craig – 2:13.422 10. RJ Hampshire – 2:14.917 10. RJ Hampshire – 1:57.979 |
For the first time since the opening round, Monster/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Adam Cianciarulo (2:09.433) was the fastest man in the 250MX class. Just like at Hangtown, Cianciarulo qualified #1 and carried that speed into the motos. Again, though, mistakes got the better of the sophomore professional, and he could not turn that speed into a podium on the day. In a strange irony, Adam finished right behind Musquin in both motos, but while Musquin’s 7-1 was good enough for first overall, Adam’s 8-2 only scored him 6th overall.
Unlike the 450’s, the two fastest 250MX laps were recorded in the second moto before the worst part of the storm rolled in. Finishing with the second fastest lap (2:09.592) was the 250MX Championship points leader, Musquin. Musquin and Cianciarulo got out front early in moto two and both sprinted out to a monstrous gap over third place Star Racing/Yamaha’s Jeremy Martin. The #25 and #50 must have felt like they were at home training for sprint laps because they were a full three seconds a lap faster than anyone in moto two.
The third (2:12.005) and fourth (2:12.345) fastest laps of the day were laid down by the Martin brothers with Jeremy edging out his younger brother Alex Martin. Both set their fastest lap of the day in moto one en-route to becoming the first-ever brothers to finish 1-2 in an AMA National moto. Jeremy made an incredible push from the back to take the lead in moto one, but it was Alex winning moto one after Jeremy stalled with just two turns to go. In the end, though, Alex finished second overall with a 1-7 score while Jeremy had to settle for a disappointing fourth overall on the day.
You can check out the top ten 250MX and 450MX fastest single lap-times and top ten fastest average lap times from the 2015 Buddsy Creek 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 Budds Creek National results here>>>
| Top 10 450MX Avg Lap-Times | Top 10 250MX Avg Lap-Times |
|---|---|
| 1. Ryan Dungey – 2:10.696 2. Christophe Pourcel – 2:11.276 3. Justin Barcia – 2:11.329 4. Blake Baggett – 2:11.960 5. Ken Roczen – 2:12.726 6. Broc Tickle – 2:12.963 7. Freddie Noren – 2:13.737 8. Jason Anderson – 2:14.361 9. Wil Hahn – 2:14.700 10. Justin Brayton – 2:15.011 |
1. Marvin Musquin – 2:14.837 2. Adam Cianciarulo – 2:15.610 3. Alex Martin – 2:15.752 4. Jeremy Martin – 2:15.810 5. Zach Osborne – 2:16.503 6. Joey Savatgy – 2:17.375 7. Cooper Webb – 2:17.663 8. Christian Craig – 2:17.692 9. Matt Bisceglia – 2:18.056 10. Mitchell Oldenburg – 2:18.913 |
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>>>
