It’s Öhlins on the LA Supercross Lites Podium with Zach Osborne

 

Hendersonville,
North Carolina: Nailing a huge result for Öhlins, Zach Osborne rode to a
third place finish in the Los Angeles Supercross Lites class on
Saturday night at Dodger Stadium, stunning the regular factory teams
with his Team Monster Energy BikeIt Cosworth Yamaha YZ250F, fitted with
Öhlins suspension, both front and rear.

 

In
his third SX Lites West race and third top-ten finish of 2012, Osborne
earned third in class, catapulting him to a fourth-place tie in the
points for the season, where he’s rubbing tires with the top three in
the points.

 

Osborne
started the day out big and right with second-fastest time in
qualifying, winning Gate 1 for Heat 1. In Heat 1 he then locked up a
great gate for the feature SX Lites race with a third-place finish.
Starting the Main from Gate 6, Osborne finished the race just 16.6
seconds behind race-winner Eli Tomac, and a scant one second behind
second-place-finisher Dean Wilson, who he battled gate-to-fireworks in a
race that could have gone either way.

 

After
the race Osborne said, “We now have a great setup for SX Lites. I can’t
thank Marty Lange and everyone else at Öhlins USA enough for all the
work they’ve done with me to sort out the set-up on my Yamaha. In my
race I had a good start, then I settled in for a few laps before making a
pass for second. Then Dean got me back with just a few laps to go. The
bike was consistent all race long.”

 

The
last chance to see Osborne in this series this year is at next week’s
race in Oakland, California, at the O.co Coliseum. Following that event
Osborne will be heading to Europe from his home in Chesterfield, South
Carolina to compete in the MX2 World Championship Series. His first race
overseas is March 11, in the British Championship Series, and then the
MX2 World Championship Series starts its season April 9, in the
Netherlands.

 

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