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AMA 450 SUPERCROSS CHAMPION JASON ANDERSON P92 Interview they never really closed in on points on me until we got to Salt Lake and I had that front-wheel issue [he went down in turn one and had to change out his front wheel at the penultimate round, ending up outside the top 15 on the night]. I feel like the whole season, even towards the end like Seattle and Minneapolis—I led the main at Seattle, and then would've won at Minneapolis. If I wouldn't have gotten docked [by the AMA], I would have won the overall there. So I'm definitely an underdog and people still see me that way, but it's cool with me. My goal is just to go out there and be consistent and try my best every time." BAD BOY? Anderson has had his share of run-ins with the AMA. At Min- neapolis, he was docked in the second of the three main events for "being on the throttle off the track" which he thinks cost him the overall win. He won the final main that night. Based on his- tory, it would seem to an outsider that Anderson is treated a little tougher than some of the other racers by the AMA/FIM. "For some reason, I've had a little bit of issues with run-ins and stuff like that as far as getting together with people or jump- ing on yellows or whatever it is, but for some reason, anything I do seems to get looked at really closely," Anderson says. "Even like last year at Minneapolis; I got in trouble for going around the track when I got pushed off the track. I guess I just need to get [the FIM's] John Gallagher a few more Christmas presents or something this year and maybe he'll be cool to me for once. Until then, we'll just keep rolling how we roll; I don't know what it is. We try and still get it done even though that stuff happens. "It's crazy that it's kind of that way; I'd be cool if I got docked as long as everyone else got the same treatment. It's not very neu- tral, I feel, but that's just my opin- ion. I've definitely gone through some instances, but that Vince Friese one [from Anaheim II in 2017, which got Anderson DQ'd from the event after appearing to have punched Friese as the pair rode out of the stadium], I definitely learned from that one. Honestly, it was a shitty situation and I shouldn't have done what I "I'm definitely an underdog and people still see me that way, but it's cool with me." Anderson had to wait for the final round to officially put a lock on the 2018 crown.