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who took his first-ever profes-
sional victory with a wire-to-wire
romp. It was the first double-
class AMA Supercross sweep for
Yamaha since Jason Lawrence
and Chad Reed did the deed in
San Diego back in 2008.
Those two also went on to win
their respective championships
that year.
A
little over 30 years ago,
after knocking out one of
his opponents, Mike Ty-
son was asked what he thought
about his opponent's game plan
for fighting him. He responded,
"Everybody has plans until they
get hit." That's the way Anaheim
1 goes, too. All the top racers
show up with plans, but ulti-
mately only one can come away
on top. In 2019, that racer was
Monster Energy Yamaha's Justin
Barcia, who rode a patient race
under rainy skies to take his first
450SX main-event victory since
2013.
In the 250SX class, it was
Monster Energy/Yamalube/Star
Racing Yamaha's Colt Nichols
BY STEVE COX
PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE COX AND KIT PALMER
