A week after sweeping Hangtown, Zach Osborne won the FMF Glen Helen National to give him two straight overall wins to start this season. The caveat: He managed to do this despite not winning either moto at Glen Helen.

Instead it was Jeremy Martin and Dylan Ferrandis winning Saturday’s two motos. For Ferrandis, a former Grand Prix rider, it was his first moto victory on the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross circuit.

Read on for a rundown of what happened at Glen Helen.

Moto 1
After a mechanical failure in Moto 1 last week, Jeremy Martin was very much in need of a good race this weekend at Glen Helen. He got that in the first moto with a wire-to-wire victory.

Jeremy Martin powered out to the gate and grabbed the holeshot, with Joey Savatgy behind him in second. Among the other fast starters was rookie Bradley Taft, who is making his season debut with Rock River Yamaha. He quickly got past Austin Forker to move into third.

Forkner got back around Taft a few laps later, as did Colt Nichols. Nichols then passed Forkner on a downhill section to move into third.

Meanwhile, J-Mart and Savatgy continued to pull away out front.  The two riders were far ahead of everyone else, but Savatgy couldn’t keep pace with Martin and ended up finishing nine seconds behind him.

Not in that top group was Zach Osborne. The current points leader was 13th after the opening lap and had to work his way through the field. He passed Alex Martin for sixth about 13 minutes into the race. Then he picked up another position when Forkner, who was running in fourth, had his bike lock up on him in the middle of the race. Forkner ejected himself from the bike and seemed visibly frustrated as he headed back to the pits.

That set up a three-rider showdown for third place between Nichols, Aaron Plessinger and Osborne. They were all within a few seconds of each other in the waning laps of the race, and with under two minutes left on the countdown clock, Plessinger finally caught and passed his teammate Nichols, going to the inside as they rounded a turn into an uphill section. Not long after, Nichols also dropped fourth place to Osborne. Osborne attempted to close in on Plessinger, but nearly went down at one point, a mistake that was costly enough to end his challenge.

Alex Martin ended up finishing sixth, and Adam Cianciarulo put on a charge — coming all the way from 27th after Lap 1 — to finish seventh. A trio of rookies (Michael Mosiman, Dylan Ferrandis and Sean Cantrell) rounded out the top ten. After his good start, Taft ended up 14th.

Moto 1 Results
1. Jeremy Martin
2. Joey Savatgy (-9.1 seconds)
3. Aaron Plessinger
4. Zach Osborne
5. Colt Nichols
6. Alex Martin
7. Adam Cianciarulo
8. Michael Mosiman
9. Dylan Ferrandis
10. Sean Cantrell
11. Jimmy Decotis
12. Shane McElrath
13. Mitchell Harrison
14. Bradley Taft
15. Nick Gaines
16. Luke Renzland
17. Lorenzo Locurcio
18. Mark Worth
19. Jerry Robin
20. Gustavo Souza
…
38. Austin Forkner (DNF)
39. Mitchell Oldenburg (DNF)
40. Justin Hill (DNF)

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Moto 2
In the second moto, Jeremy Martin made it two-for-two on the day with holeshots and gave himself a bit of a gap over everyone else. Osborne ended up in second when things shuffled out, with Ferrandis and Cianciarulo behind him.

But fortunes shifted on the opening lap when Martin crashed as he started to go up a hill and ended up tangled in the track banners. As he struggled to get going again, the rest of the field went past him. That put Osborne temporarily into the lead until he was passed by Ferrandis.

Five minutes into the race, the top five was Ferrandis, Osborne, Cianciarulo, Taft (who had another good start) and Mosiman. Plessinger soon passed Mosiman and Taft to move into fourth. Plessinger was pushing for another podium finish and potentially an overall win, but he went down about ten minutes into the race and fell outside the top 20.

One of the beneficiaries was Nichols, who ultimately moved into 4th place. Mosiman dropped out the top five after getting passed by Forkner. At the midway point, the running order was Ferrandis, Osborne, Cianciarulo, Nichols and Forkner.

That running order would remain unchanged for the most of the moto, other than Alex Martin overtaking Forkner for fifth. And meanwhile out front, Ferrandis was running away. He built up a 23-second lead by the time the checkered flag came out.

Thanks to Martin and Plessinger’s incidents, Osborne became the de facto frontrunner for the overall win. His 4-2 moto finishes ended up being enough to get it done.

As for Jeremy Martin, he spent the race trying to salvage as many positions as possible. With just a few minutes left on the countdown clock, he finally got back into the top ten and was then able to pass Shane McElrath to put himself into a spot on the overall podium.

Savatgy, who finished second in Moto 1, had a shot to retake that overall podium spot from Martin if he could pass Forkner for sixth place. But in the midst of that battle, Savatgy had a mechanical issue — the third bike issue for the Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki team on the day (Forkner and Hill had issues in Moto 1) — and was done.

Jeremy Martin spent the final laps of the race chasing down Forkner. Had he been able to make the pass, Martin would have tied Osborne for overall points on the day, but Forkner successfully held him off. Martin ended up second overall with 1-7 results.

Ferrandis (9-1) rounded out the overall podium.

Moto 2 Results
1. Dylan Ferrandis
2. Zach Osborne
3. Adam Cianciarulo
4. Colt Nichols
5. Alex Martin
6. Austin Forkner
7. Jeremy Martin
8. Mitchell Harrison
9. Shane McElrath
10. Michael Mosiman
11. Sean Cantrell
12. Justin Hill
13. Aaron Plessinger
14. Lorenzo Locurcio
15. Nick Gaines
16. Gustavo Souza
17. Bradley Taft
18. Mark Worth
19. Jerry Robin
20. Bradley Lionnet
…
29. Joey Savatgy (DNF)
39. Mitchell Oldenburg (DNS)

Overall Results
1. Zach Osborne (4-2)
2. Jeremy Martin (1-7)
3. Dylan Ferrandis (9-1)
4. Adam Cianciarulo (7-3)
5. Colt Nichols (5-4)
6. Alex Martin (6-5)
7. Aaron Plessinger (3-13)
8. Michael Mosiman (8-10)
9. Joey Savatgy (2-29)
10. Mitchell Harrison (13-8)
11. Shane McElrath (12-9)
12. Sean Cantrell (10-11)
13. Austin Forkner (38-6)
14. Nick Gaines (15-15)
15. Lorenzo Locurcio (17-14)
16. Bradley Taft (14-17)
17. Jimmy Decotis (11-34)
18. Justin Hill (40-12)
19. Gustavo Souza (20-16)
20. Mark Worth (18-18)
…
40. Mitchell Oldenburg (39-39)

(Story from Pro Motocross press release; cover photo from Pro Motocross/George Crosland)