News 27 Jan 2025

'I made the executive decision to just pull it in' – Plessinger

Suffers second non-finish in three races during difficult January.

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Misfortune continues to hit Aaron Plessinger three rounds into Supercross 2025, suffering his second non-finish of the year at Anaheim 2 after making contact with Dylan Ferrandis and damaging his bike early on.

Plessinger sits a lowly 19th in the standings at this stage, but displayed signs of improvement on the weekend in qualifying 10th and then taking fourth in 450SX heat one.

Impatience cost him in the main event, however, after unintentionally taking Phoenix Honda’s Ferrandis down while positioned inside the top 10 on lap three, forcing the Red Bull KTM rider out altogether with a damaged throttle.

“It really sucks today because, you know, I was having a better day and yeah, we got the bike dialed today and I feel like I could have really done some damage in that main,” Plessinger told MotoOnline. “Unfortunately, made a bonehead move, tried to force a pass on Dylan too soon and jumped into a corner, missed my back brake and completely ruined his main and my main.

“That’s on me. I’ve got to be smarter and yeah, it just sucks. But, you know, it’ll be alright… We’re healthy, we’ve got next week and we can focus on that. Every time I turned the bars, it would yank on my throttle cable and would stick. I figured I would at least try, but, you know, it would have been dangerous.

“It would have been even dumber for me to go back out there, so I made the executive decision to just pull it in and see what the boys could do. And unfortunately they couldn’t help me out. Like I said, I’ve just got to be smarter and we’re healthy and we can focus on next week.”

One year ago during what had been the best January of his career, Plessinger – who turned 29 on Saturday – held the red plate, but his fortunes have turned for the worse so far in 2025 with two DNFs in three races. Outside of that, he finished ninth at Anaheim 1.

“We’ll have to wait another week,” he said on the urgency to turn things around. “And that’s, you know, that’s just dirt bikes… That’s how it is. Sometimes you get the luck of the draw, but sometimes you don’t, and right now I’m having tough luck so I’ve got to deal with it. No excuses.”

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