AX 450 Pro podium for Goerke in Calgary

(Brampton, ON – March 19, 2018)  With a third-place finish, Matt Goerke put Team Rockstar Energy OTSFF Yamaha on the podium at the Rockstar Energy AX Tour double-header in Calgary, AB this past weekend. Goerke cleared the task aboard his Yamaha YZ450F on the second night of handlebar-banging action in the 450 Pro class at the Agrium Event Center.

Goerke’s teammate Dillan Epstein, still cutting his teeth on arenacross competition, finished in sixth place on the final night. On Friday night, however, Epstein just missed stepping onto the podium, taking fourth at the checkered flag.

For his part, Goerke capped the top-five on Friday with a fifth-place finish. Although a win has eluded both Epstein and Goerke in the first half of the arenacross title hunt, they are sitting in a favourable fourth and fifth place respectively on the points scoreboard.

In Friday night’s heat races, Goerke and Epstein both got off to good starts, which they parlayed into a second-place finish in their respective races. This saw them advance directly to the mains as well as a berth in the Clash, with Goerke finishing fourth and Epstein sixth.

When the gate dropped for the 450 main event Goerke and Epstein started inside the top-five and basically rode their own race to the finish line. Although Goerke occupied fourth for most of the race, he found his teammate sticking a pass on him in the closing laps.

Looking for redemption, Goerke nailed a win in his heat race on Saturday night. In the Clash, he arrived at the finish line in fourth place. Epstein finished fourth in his heat race, thus failing to qualify for a start in the Clash.