A well organized and structured race meeting was the venue at Lake Elsinore for the twelfth and final meet of the 2012 Outdoor AMA series, with all to play for in the 250 class as the Raptor Titanium sponsored Geico Honda riders Eli Tomac and Justin Barcia were within striking distance of Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki's Blake Baggett for the championship title.
Having already sewn up the title several weeks ago, it was still our sponsored man Ryan Dungey of KTM Red Bull USA taking yet another overall 1-1 result and victory in the 450 class to make the year even better for KTM Red Bull if that were possible.
250 Lites Class
It was Eli Tomac on top in qualifying with a super-speddy 2:36 lap time around the incredibly long Lake Elsinore circuit, with fellow Raptor Titanium sponsored riders Ken Roczen and Marvin Musquin of KTM Red Bull behind in second and third.
The KTM Red Bull and Raptor Titanium riders Marvin Musquin and Ken Roczen followed up a good qualifying session to take first and second out of the gate, but were soon chased down by Justin Barcia as Roczen went down early on. Tomac fought to get up front to gain points on the championship leader Baggett who in turn was furiously battling with Barcia up at the front. Tomac soon got around Musquin into third and began pressuring Baggett in a thrilling three-way race for the win. Baggett characteristically turned up the heat at the end and stormed to the win to edge closer to the 2012 title with Tomac in 2nd and Barcia 3rd. Musquin kept it upright to take 4th with Geico Honda and Raptor Titanium sponsored man Wil Hahn in 5th.
With many of the main competitors going down or getting bad starts on the first lap of the second moto there was everything to play for, however as long as Baggett finished 13th the title was his. Tomac went down on lap one so it was down to Barcia to try and salvage the championship and with a valiant effort he won the race, but with an absolutely flying Baggett who stormed up from 11th to 2nd in the race, at one point going four seconds a lap faster than Barcia he was never going to be beaten on the day.
Congratulations to Blake Baggett, 2012 250 AMA Outdoor Motocross Champion!
250 Lites Results
1. Blake Baggett 1/2 KAW
2. Justin Barcia 3/1 HON
3. Marvin Musquin 4/3 KTM
4. Wil Hahn 5/4 HON
5. Malcolm Stewart 7/6 KTM
6. Ken Roczen 6/7 KTM
7. Eli Tomac 2/14 HON
8. Blake Wharton SUZ
9. Jessy Martin YAM
10. Jessy Nelson HON
11. Kyle Cunningham YAM
12. Jason Anderson SUZ
13. Justin Bogle HON
14. T Baker HON
15. D Epstein KAW
16. Kyle Peters YAM
17. Alex Martin HON
18. C Thompson YAM
19. K Rusk HON
20. D Tedder KAW
250 Lites Points
Blake Baggett 519
Justin Barcia 499
Eli Tomac 487
Ken Roczen 456
Marvin Musquin 406
Wil Hahn 316
Blake Wharton 265
Jason Anderson 238
Jessy Nelson 225
Travis Baker 193
Malcolm Stewart 190
Jake Canada 170
Alex Martin 153
Justin Bogle 142
Kyle Cunningham 132
Gareth Swanepoel 106
Ivan Tedesco 105
Kyle Peters 91
Martin Davalos 85
Ryan Sipes 58
It's been a fantastic year for Raptor Titanium sponsored riders in the AMA 250 Lites Class, with 14 of the top 20 riders in the final classification using Raptor Titanium footpegs in the competition, so what are you waiting for? Get on our US website and buy the footpegs used by your heroes!
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