"Everyone puts
in that work in
the off-season,
but if you just
kind of throw it
away in that first
round, it kind of
beats you up."
Marvin Musquin slotted-in
at runner-up in the supercross
title fight. There was some
drama between you two guys
this season. What's your take
on his year?
Marv, once again, he is a guy
that is always there. Gosh, this
is tough—Marv was there again,
too. We had our run in at the
Boston race, so that was tough.
That definitely didn't help the way
we race each other, but that's
just part of supercross. Yeah,
Marv's there all of the time too.
Yes, the move Musquin put
on you at Foxborough was,
well, suspect.
Yeah, it was pretty blatant.
There's one thing with block-
passing and making it stick and
taking the guy's line, but what
he did was over-the-top dirty. I
mean, he was cutting way across
the middle apex. I don't know—
yeah, there are a lot of situations
where you could just totally blast
a guy and T-bone him, but you
don't do it because it's not right,
you know? Yeah, you're going to
take the line and make the block
pass on a guy, but not that way.
Anything come at you to-
tally out of nowhere in 2018?
I'll jump back to supercross
again. Anaheim I, that was totally
just—man, it still beats me up to
this day. I was leading the race
and was totally comfortable
and was actually telling myself
to relax, like telling myself to
relax before I crashed. I wasn't
even pushing the edge and
that's when I made the mistake.
That's what really bummed me
out. That was one of the mo-
ments that really stuck with me
throughout this year. At round
one when you hurt yourself…
man, it's tough. Everyone puts in
that work in the off-season, but
if you just kind of throw it away in
that first round, it kind of beats
you up.
Tomac's come-from-
behind wins this year
outdoors were historic.
Tomac and his crew
chief Mike Williamson.
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