SUPERCROSS
MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS, AN FIM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 1 / JANUARY 5, 2019
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA / ANGEL STADIUM
P62
goggles the last five [laps],"
Wilson said. "Just needed five
minutes in me."
Behind Wilson came Cooper
Webb (Red Bull KTM), who went
down in the first turn and still
charged his way back through
the field for fifth place, setting
the fastest lap time of the race
but I just kind of stayed solid the
whole way."
Wilson hung on for a very
solid fourth place, well clear of
the rest of the field.
"I felt like I had the best op-
portunity to win that race lead-
ing 15 minutes but then ran into
lappers and lost my rhythm and
then I caught on to a few things,
like I wasn't jumping the big
double-double early on; my little
pack of guys wasn't doing it.
And then I get on the pit board,
'Double-Double', so I was like,
'Holy crap, the guys out front are
jumping it!' So I latched on to
that, and that helped a little bit,
Ken Roczen (94) slips past Wilson for second place.
