no backing off. We had to keep
winning no matter what. We had
some serious pressure on us.
Jason Anderson stepped up
and strung together an excel-
lent season to win the Monster
Energy Supercross Series. Did
you see that coming? What
did you think of his year?
Jason, he was just there all of
the time and that's the way it has
to be to win that supercross title.
He did win his races, but he was
always just there. He was always
a podium contender and he nev-
er gave up a big chunk of points
and he ended up being that guy.
Consistency paid off once again
for Jason in supercross.
Do you two guys know one
another at all?
I do. We grew up racing
amateurs together and basically
we were in the same age group
the whole time. We were around
each other a lot. It's kind of funny
where we are at now and where
we came from. We were not the
normal kids. He was from New
Mexico, kind of in the middle of
nowhere, and I was from kind of
from the middle of nowhere in
Colorado and to see where we
are at now is pretty cool.
You've never seemed in-
terested in basing yourself in
California. Too many distrac-
tions there?
That's true. There are more
distractions there with a big-
ger city lifestyle, right? It can
go both ways. California gives
the opportunity to ride a lot of
tracks, and for the most part,
you can ride all year 'round. And
there is the racing, too. You get
more racing and more gate time
in California. It could go either
way, but for us, we did have to
go chase those races in amateur
racing, but at the same time,
maybe we didn't burn ourselves
out too early because we were
from a small town area.
AMA PRO MOTOCROSS 450MX CHAMPION ELI TOMAC
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When Tomac was on,
everyone else was racing
for second place that day.
