been racing, and has been doing
backflips through the whole run.
If you win it, the guy's been do-
ing backflips the whole run and
almost beat you, and also he's a
legend, and you're the guy who
beat the legend, and everybody's
a little bit bummed that Travis [Pas-
trana] didn't win. So, it was a lose/
lose for me [laughs]. He was not
scared, though!" CN
125
1. Joey Crown (KTM)
2. Michael Leib (Hon)
3. AJ Catanzaro (KTM)
250
1. Ken Roczen (Hon)
2. Brandon Hartranft (KTM)
3. Josh Hansen (Hon)
500
1. Tyler Bowers (Kaw)
2. Travis Pastrana (Suz)
wait to come back next year and
defend this title."
500cc
And Tyler Bowers, the multi-
time Arenacross champ and
one of the top 450cc privateers
indoors and out in 2019, faced
off against the actual Travis Pas-
trana, both on 500cc machines,
in three races to determine the
500cc champ. Pastrana back-
flipped his "RM-Zilla" during
every run, and he actually won
the first one, but Bowers rode his
1991 Kawasaki KX500 (Bowers
was also born in 1991) to the win
in the following two runs to take
the 500cc title.
"Either way, I can't win this
thing, you know?" Bowers said.
"If you lose it, you lost to the guy
who hasn't been training, hasn't
makes it another challenging ele-
ment; getting the bikes dialed in,"
Crown said. "It makes it way more
fun. I'm really stoked to come out
here this year."
He enjoyed dealing with the
pressure, too.
"I was pretty nervous up there!"
Crown said about sitting on the
line to start the finals. "You're
just sitting up there waiting, and
the anticipation just kills, and
there's all the lights going, and
the crowd. There's no one there,
so it's just you, and you hear the
announcers talking about you,
and you're on the camera, but
that part is challenging. It's what
I expected, though. I expected
to be nervous. It's fun, but it's
nerve-racking because you want
to win. And we did that, so I can't
MOTOCROSS
RED BULL STRAIGHT RHY THM
OCTOBER 5, 2019
L A COUNT Y FAIRGROUNDS / POMONA, CALIFORNIA
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Ryan Villopoto (2)
was an early exit. No,
that's not Nathan
Ramsey (25) but
Parker Mashburn as
a Ramsey lookalike.
