SUPERCROSS
ROUND 4 / JANUARY 26, 2019
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA / US BANK STADIUM
P54
MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS
THUMBS DOWN
Christian Craig (Geico Honda) suf-
fered a pretty serious thumb injury
in the off-season and wasn't able to
ride much at all until less than a week
before the Minneapolis Supercross.
He made the main event, but his
thumb couldn't make it through and
he suffered a DNF. "I'm bummed on
the night, obviously, but going into it
we had no idea how my thumb would
hold up," said Craig. "I rode super-
cross one day and made the call to
race one day before we had to leave.
It's healing and gets better weekly
but wasn't strong enough to last all
day and night. I surprised myself in
the heat race. Someone ran into me
and I was about dead last. I was able
to fight to seventh which I was happy
with. The main was hard. I could fight
for a few laps, but then it was getting
so bad I couldn't hang on at all. Most
people probably wouldn't have raced
if they felt like I did but if I could've
gotten a top 10 and had a chance at
the championship it would have been
worth it so I had to try. I'll probably
take next weekend off and hope-
fully come back for [round three in]
Detroit. I'm doing all I can to get this
thing feeling better but it just needs
some more TLC right now."
WHERE'S HUNTER?
Speaking of the Geico Honda team,
Briefly...
dominated the opening round
of the 250SX East Champion-
ship. If he keeps riding like he
did in Minnesota, we're going
to be hearing his name a lot
in the weeks to come.
450SX
Although he didn't get the win
in the mud in San Diego, it
seems as if Cooper Webb is
taking a stranglehold on the
2019 Monster Energy AMA
Supercross Series. Webb
might've faltered a bit in San
Diego last weekend and gave
way to Eli Tomac, who took
the win and the points lead,
but he put himself right back
up on top in Minneapolis.
Webb started the night
by grabbing the holeshot
in his heat race just in front
of Tomac, then held Tomac
Roczen (94) also got around
Savatgy and took second place, and
he also took back the red plate.
