Tampa Supercross 250 Class Photo Finish

Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki's Austin Forkner claimed his first career 250SX main event victory at round 8 of the AMA Supercross series inside Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. Forkner got off to a good start and quickly passed reigning champ, Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing's Zach Osborne, before crossing the finish line on the first lap in second. He then passed GEICO Honda's RJ Hampshire and led the remaining 19 laps to take his first victory of the season and his career.

“I’m really happy to get my first supercross win,” Forkner said. “I came into this season coming off a wrist injury and I’m feeling really good right now. The team has a good setup for my KX250F. Going after my first win was a challenge, but I was up front early and I tried to sprint to build a lead. I managed the pace to try and keep a good gap. I have to give it up to my team for staying behind me.”

Monster Energy/Yamalube/Star Racing/Yamaha’s Dylan Ferrandis battled his way up to a podium position after completing the first lap in fourth on his YZ250F. Ferrandis passed Hampshire after the Honda rider made a mistake in the sand section and was able to get around Osborne in the latter half of the race to take his first podium finish of the season.

After winning the main event last week, Osborne piloted his FC 250 to another podium finish. “It was decent day here in Tampa,” Osborne said. “I won my heat race and got off to a really good start in the main event, but I just didn’t quite execute there at the end like I would’ve liked to. I tried to kind of play it safe in the middle and maybe it got away from me a little bit. I’ll work on that this week.”

GEICO Honda’s RJ Hampshire put his CRF250R in fourth place for the night and Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Martin Davalos—who suffered a nasty crash last weekend in Arlington—rounded out the top five on his KX250F.