CHAMPIONSHIP
VOL. 56 ISSUE 6 FEBRUARY 12, 2019 P65
PAST MINNEAPOLIS
Cooper Webb still finds himself taking deep breaths and making
sure he knows this is real; he's won half of the 450SX supercross
races in 2019 and is one point out of the championship lead. "I still
have to kind of sit back and realize what's going on," Webb said.
"It's hard not to get caught up in it, for sure, but for me, it's awe-
some. Even here tonight, last year I was here in the Alpinestars rig
with a broken leg, and the year before I popped my shoulder out,
so this place wasn't a place I was looking forward to coming to,
and to be able to block that out and turn things around this year,
and turn things around tonight, was pretty sweet. There's no way I
would've thought I would've been here, but it's pretty cool to see,
and I've got to keep it going."\
ADAPTING TO THE COLD
The Minnesota Supercross was the first round of the season
where the pits weren't in the parking lot, but instead were inside,
out of the cold. "The trucks were out in the snow, so we had to un-
load all of our essentials and bring them down to our makeshift pit
area in the tunnel," Honda HRC Team Manager Erik Kehoe said.
"It took everyone out of their routine, but we adapted." The Team
Honda HRC mechanics used warmers on the tires and suspen-
sion to keep the bikes working consistently.
Briefly...
Martin Davalos
(73) got a good
jump at the start
of the 250SX
East main,
which was the
first round of the
East series.
Racing Yamaha) rode solid all night
on his way to third in the main event,
his first-ever AMA Supercross podium
finish. Cooper had to find a way past
Alex Martin, who was making his debut
on the JGR/Yoshimura Suzuki Factory
Racing Team, late in the main event for
the spot. Martin finished fourth, just in
front of Chase Sexton (Geico Honda)
who fell about halfway through the main
event while pressuring Martin.
"You don't want to think about not
making mistakes, because then you're
going to make them, but just trying to
Austin Forkner
absolutely
dominated the
250SX main.
