{"id":5773,"date":"2014-08-21T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2014-08-19T06:01:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T10:01:30","slug":"musquin-takes-victory-at-ironman-motocross-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/2014\/08\/musquin-takes-victory-at-ironman-motocross-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Musquin takes victory at Ironman Motocross National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro-text\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">Red Bull KTM Factory rider Marvin Musquin earned the overall win at the Ironman Motocross National, the eleventh round of the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross 250MX Championship Series.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news2-text-wrap\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p>Despite getting stuck in a large mud hole in the morning practice session,\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #ff6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ktm.com\/factoryracing\/mx\/us-250mx-motocross\/team.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marvin Musquin<\/a>\u00a0held a positive attitude and was looking forward to the first mud race of the season.\u00a0<i>\u201cThe mud definitely makes the course challenging but it is very exciting too,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0stated\u00a0<b>Musquin<\/b>\u00a0before the first moto.<\/p>\n<p>From a 15th\u00a0place gate pick the first moto, Musquin pulled a decent start and was 4th around the first corner. He moved into 3rd a lap later when the rider in that position crashed. Once in podium position he maintained his pace and was able to finish the race in that spot.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIt was really slick the first moto and the lappers definitely made it challenging,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0stated\u00a0<b>Musquin<\/b>.\u00a0<i>\u201cI am happy to finish with a podium result and hope the rain holds off for the second moto.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>On his\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #ff6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ktm.com\/mx\/250-sx-f-eu\/highlights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">KTM 250 SX-F<\/a>\u00a0Musquin got his wish and the moto was slightly less wet the second moto where he earned another top five start. He gained a position early on when a rider in front of him went down and then he made a pass on Christophe Pourcel to move into 3rd place. Soon Musquin, Pourcel and the 2nd place Rockstar KTM ride of\u00a0<b>Joey Savatgy<\/b>\u00a0began to pressure Jessy Nelson for the lead. They each eventually moved around Nelson maintaining a tight battle for the overall win. It was not until two laps remained that Musquin was able to make a pass on Savatgy to take the lead. Pourcel did not back down and challenged Musquin the entire last lap. The two French riders were within a bike length of each other when Musquin crossed the finish line to take the win.<\/p>\n<p>Musquin\u2019s 3-1 finishes earned him the overall for the day and a place in the record books as the first 250MX rider to win at the first-ever Ironman Motocross National.<\/p>\n<p><b>Next Round: August 23, 2014 &#8211; Tooele, UT<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Results 250MX Class Crawfordsville<\/b><br \/>\n<b>1. Marvin Musquin (FRA), KTM (3-1)<br \/>\n2. Joey Savatgy (USA), KTM (4-3)<\/b><br \/>\n3. Jessy Nelson (USA), Honda (1-8)<br \/>\n4. Christophe Pourcel (FRA), yamaha (9-2)<br \/>\n5. Cooper Webb (USA), Yamaha (6-5)<br \/>\n<b>Other KTM<\/b><br \/>\n9. Jason Anderson (USA), KTM (5-10)<\/p>\n<p><b>Standings 250MX Class after 11 of 12 rounds<\/b><br \/>\n1. Jeremy Martin (USA), Yamaha, 450 points<br \/>\n2. Blake Baggett (USA), Kawasaki, 381<br \/>\n3. Webb, 379<br \/>\n<b>4. Musquin, 374<\/b><br \/>\n5. Pourcel, 355<br \/>\n<b>Other KTM<\/b><br \/>\n7. Anderson, 270<br \/>\n12. Savatgy, 194<\/p>\n<p>via KTM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull KTM Factory rider Marvin Musquin earned the overall win at the Ironman Motocross National, the eleventh round of the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross 250MX Championship Series.<a style=\"white-space:nowrap\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/2014\/08\/musquin-takes-victory-at-ironman-motocross-national\/\">&ensp;Read the full article &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1055],"tags":[282,3824],"class_list":["post-5773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorsports","tag-mbikebrandktm","tag-mbikecategoryracing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5774,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions\/5774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}