CHAMPIONSHIP
VOL. 56 ISSUE 5 FEBRUARY 5, 2019 P51
ZACHO TO RETURN
Zach Osborne (Rockstar Energy
Husqvarna) is planning to make his
450SX debut for his team at the Minne-
apolis Supercross this week. He missed
the start of the series with a broken col-
larbone he suffered just before the start
of the series. With defending champ
and teammate Jason Anderson out for
likely the rest of the 2019 series, Os-
borne will be a welcome addition under
the Husqvarna awning.
WHAT COULD'VE BEEN
Ken Roczen returned to the podium
for the first time in three rounds at San
Diego, but more importantly, he made
it out of California to contest the rest of
the series, which he hasn't done since
2016. "In my mind, the season doesn't
really fully start until like round 10
[Daytona]," Roczen said. "That's when
you've got to think about being close
to the front, or leading. So, right now,
I'm kind of just picking my battles a
little bit, and I just want to get out of the
west coast because it's been a long
time since I've accomplished that."
He was disappointed that he fell in the
second turn after grabbing the hole-
shot, and that he lost second place in
the last turn of the race, but his starts
are better and things are looking up.
"I thought I was in third, and obviously
I got passed by Marvin [Musquin] with
one turn to go, so I wasn't really stoked
about that," Roczen said. "Yeah, it
could've been a second place, and
they're all really important points, but
all in all, I've changed some things
around this week, and we made some
improvements for starts on the bike,
and also myself; I changed a couple
little things out that seemed to pay off,
because today the starts were really,
really important. And I got a super-
Briefly...
Ken Roczen (94)
is kicking himself
for letting a clean
start go for naught
when he fell down
two turns later.
MUDDY WATERS
