McCutcheon led GNCC competitor Tayla Jones, Hailey Vassallo, Mikayla Nielsen, Mayla Herrick, and Hannah Hodges, as Cannon was 12th and Turner was 15th! The top two in the title fight found one another as they moved forward. Turner even almost went down early in the race when Hannah Hodges went down and bumped into Turner while falling. Turner got pushed off to the side of the track but managed to keep her balance and she stayed up. And out front, McCutcheon quickly came under pressure from three Honda riders! Nielsen, Herrick, and Cannon were all going after McCutcheon’s lead. For about three laps we had a ton of back and forth passing and suddenly, Turner was right there in the battle as well.
Turner quickly joined the party and she got by Cannon to take over second! Cannon fought back and retook second place! Turner’s pressure pushed their battle up to Nielsen. Then, Nielsen and Cannon almost made contact in the infield tabletop! Turner took advantage to retake second, but then a handful of sections later and Cannon made a two-for-one pass to take over the lead doing down the hill into the turn before the Big Gulp jump! It was an epic battle out front! From there, Turner started to reeeeeeally start putting down heaters with a fully clear track. Cannon’s 2:07.180 was the fastest lap of the race, but Turner put in a 2:07.319—her fastest lap of the race, on the fourth lap when she got into the lead. Then, once Turner got into the lead, she put in an even faster lap! Turner clocked in a 2:04.313 out front as Cannon kept fighting with a 2:06.927 of her own for a new personal fast lap.
Somewhere in the thick of all the battles, Herrick went down and dropped a handful of positions. She would run into more trouble as she encountered bike problems, joining Jarvis with a mechanical DNF of her own.
Herrick’s misfortunes bumped Piper Bell up to seventh behind Lily-Ann Pettus. Then, Pettus and Nanami Honda went down while battling for fifth. The two tangled bars up in the top section of the track after passing the podium in the infield. That dropped them back and promoted Bell up to fifth. Now into the top ten herself was newly crowned WMX Canadian Champion Jamie Astudillo, who was running seventh.
Turner hung on to take the first moto win of the weekend as Cannon came through second, just 4.464 seconds back. Nielsen finished third as McCutcheon and Bell rounded out the top five.