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AMA PRO MOTOCROSS 450MX CHAMPION ELI TOMAC and redeem our showing be- cause that wasn't right. Yeah, I don't think it's going to happen that way again. We'll see. The race is set to run—and run in deep sand—at the Assen TT circuit in Holland next year. Could you see the American team training in sand beforehand? It would be wise to. Bike setup is huge and even with the wet and sandy conditions at Red- Bud, I think that even suited the Europeans more. They excel on that, right? If there were jumps, and it was more like the normal RedBud that we race on, we would have exceled more. But yeah, going back to Assen, it would be very wise to get on those conditions right now because bike setup can be the difference between being fifth or first or whatever it is. Any overseas races planned this early winter? Jason An- derson has been doing some globetrotting and hitting a few of the bigger events in No- vember and December. We haven't done an overseas off-season race going back to around 2014. My normal sched- ule has been supercross, our AMA series and then the des Nations and Monster Cup. I'm not going to add any races as of now because I just know how long that next year will be. You can look at it either way, right? You can kind of break up the year and go race some of these races, but for us, we're thinking P142 Interview January at this point. No matter the situation, you always seem cool and relaxed, even one win away from $1 million at the Monster Energy Cup! [Laughs] I was just pumped to be in that position. I wasn't a total nervous wreck. Something changed that night. It might have been my mindset. I don't now. We just went out there and we did it. I was more pumped to be in that position rather than being like, "Holy crap. I'm super ner- vous right now and I'm going to go out there and blow it." It was all mindset. The mental part was huge at that race. Nice to slam that check in the bank account, huh? [Laughter.] Yeah, like I said, to have that opportunity was so cool. Joey Savatgy waving you by there on the white flag lap of the third and final moto to win $1 million dollars. What hap- pened there? We have to ask. [Laughs] Yeah, there was no pre-race plan at all, so [I] just went out there and just raced the race. That's all I can say. But good on him, too. For his first 450 race, Joey killed it there, so that was cool to see. We'll be side-by-side in 2019. For 2019, what's your mas- ter plan? Well, the master plan and the master goal is to win [AMA] Supercross. I've had two years of winning the most races and being the most dominant guy and not getting the title. That's number one. Yeah, the number one goal is to win the Super- cross championship. CN Eli Tomac capped of the year with a $1 million check that he won at the Monster Energy Cup, the last big race before Anaheim I 2019. Will he carry that momentum into Anaheim?