SUPERCROSS
ROUND 13 / MARCH 30, 2019
NRG STADIUM / HOUSTON, TEXAS
P54
MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS
After a promising start, bad
luck returned for Roczen. Just
off the start in the second main,
he went down hard in the first
turn and got up limping. He
pulled out of the race and had
his right big toe x-rayed. The
exam came back negative so the
question was mostly just about if
he could deal with the pain in the
third main event.
Webb, meanwhile, went out
and dominated the second race,
while Musquin had a third mis-
ROUGH NIGHT
FOR YAMAHA
It was not a very good night for the
Monster Energy Yamaha Factory
Racing Team. Neither of its two rid-
ers completed all three main events.
They both went out during the sec-
ond race. Justin Barcia headed back
to the pits when he crashed in the
whoops, knocking the wind out of
him and aggravating his already ten-
der shoulder. Josh Grant, who is fill-
ing in for the injured Aaron Plessinger
for the second race, over-jumped a
triple and injured his neck. He called
it a night right there.
TOUGH GUY
Colt Nichols was still feeling the af-
fects of his crash the week before at
Seattle, where he injured his leg. "It
was just the soreness," said Nichols.
"I just did some light cycling to try
and loosen up my leg a little bit, and
then I tried to ride on Thursday and
felt it was good enough to at least try
to come race. I really, really wanted
to race. I didn't want to miss a week-
end after having a DNF, so once we
got here, we just kind of dealt with it
a little bit. The first two mains weren't
great, but I salvaged some decent
points, and then I managed to get a
holeshot and win the last main event,
and that's exactly what I wanted to
do. Overall, it just felt good to win
something again. It's been a while
since I've even been in this room, so
it was a good night for me."
TBI
RJ Hampshire was a promising
young rookie back in 2015 when
he ended up with a traumatic brain
injury (TBI) that severely hampered
his racing progress for years. But in
Houston, he returned to the podium
Briefly...
Webb (2) shoves
his teammate
Marvin Musquin
off the track in the
first race.
