VOL. 55 ISSUE 50 DECEMBER 18, 2018 P135
T
he morning of the all-conclusive round of the 2018 Monster
Energy Supercross Series in Las Vegas, Nevada, Eli Tomac sat
atop a large cooler and looked down at the grass which served
as a sort of carpet in the Monster Energy Kawasaki pit area.
"It's disappointing to say, but it's pretty familiar to last year when we
had a bunch of wins and, once again, we don't have a shot at the cham-
pionship again this year," lamented Tomac, being far harder on himself
than I anticipated. "It's a big bummer that way, and that all started with
Anaheim I with the slide-out and crash and smashing my shoulder there.
It was really tough and then I had to sit out the Houston round and I was
50 points out right from the beginning. We came back and won the
overall at Anaheim II with that Triple Crown, but even so, I just put myself
in a bad position too early. I never really had a shot at it."
After winning handily that night in Las Vegas, Tomac would use
the momentum both he and the team had spooled up from a strong
No one will
argue that
Tomac was
out-and-out
the fastest
motocrosser in
the U.S. in 2018.
