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ANAHEIM, California: Jorge Prado earned the holeshot and won Heat 1 at Angel Stadium.<\/p>\n
Chase Sexton and Ken Roczen won the heats last week in San Diego at Snapdragon Stadium.<\/p>\n
Heat 2<\/p>\n
Eli Tomac and Chase Sexton square off in this heat. But it’s the defending champion with the holeshot. Cooper Webb led the field on Lap 1.<\/p>\n
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Chase Sexton got around him on the second circuit. This is a reprise of the 2025 title fight.<\/p>\n
Once in the lead, Sexton scooted away and then dumps his bike in the sand. That moved Eli Tomac to third.<\/p>\n
Sexton fell to seventh. That was the second big crash for Sexton in A2.<\/p>\n
Tomac took the lead with a minute and a half on the clock.<\/p>\n
Jason Anderson cycled into third.<\/p>\n
After a scary crash in A1, Malcolm Stewart sat comfortably in fourth.<\/p>\n
Heat 1<\/p>\n
Jorge Prado gets a great jump and the holeshot.<\/p>\n
The Cowboy, Aaron Plessinger, kept Prado in sight for the first half of the race with Hunter Lawrence in the final podium position. Only two seconds separated the top three.<\/p>\n
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in fourth, Ken Roczen kept the lead trio honest.<\/p>\n
Prado has come a long way in the Supercross.<\/p>\n
Prado pressured Plessinger into a dangerous pace on the final lap and won his heat.<\/p>\n
Plessinger lost his bike entering the final turn and fell out of second.<\/p>\n
“I was hitting it like every lap, and then that lap I kind of … I don’t know,” Plessinger told Peacock’s Jason Thomas outside the Alpinestars Medical trailer. “I didn’t feel anything. I went off the face of the jump and felt my bike shift, forward enough to where I was not going to pull it off whatever I did. So I jumped and hoped the bike was not going to hit me.”<\/p>\n
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Hunter Lawrence inherited second.<\/p>\n
Roczen moved up to third.<\/p>\n
Fourth-plce Justin Cooper and Christian Craig rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n
Plessinger’s bike was mangled, but the leaders had a big enough advantage over the transfer position that he limped home eighth.<\/p>\n
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