SUPERCROSS
MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS, AN FIM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 4 / JANUARY 26, 2018
OAKLAND-ALAMEDA COUNTY COLISEUM / OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
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After chalking up
his first-ever AMA
Supercross win, Cooper
Webb backs it up with
another in Oakland
BY STEVE COX
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BROWNDOG WILSON
F
or a lot of champion racers,
there's a definitive point in their
career when something just
goes click and they start winning
races that often leads to champion-
ships. And sometimes, if you pay
attention, you can actually recognize
it as it's happening. That was the
case at the Anaheim 2 Supercross
last weekend, when Red Bull KTM's
Cooper Webb pressured Honda
HRC's points leader Ken Roczen
for the entire main event, forcing a
last-lap error and winning his first-
ever professional 450SX race, then
followed that immediately with a wire-
to-wire romp in the second of three
main events, before riding conserva-
tively in the third main to lock up the
overall victory. Something clicked,
and it was confirmed in Oakland,
where Webb led every lap to win his
second main event in a row and take
over the points lead in the process.
In the 250SX West class, Monster
Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki's Adam
Cianciarulo also became the first
two-time winner of 2019 in his class.
Like Webb after him, Cianciarulo led
every lap of the 250SX West main
event on his way to the win.
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