SUPERCROSS
MONSTER ENERGY CUP
MONSTER ENERGY CUP / OCTOBER 19, 2019
L AS VEGAS, NEVADA / SAM BOYD STADIUM
P60
IIIMY OWN RACE:
It was strange to go backward—it
was different—but it was the same
for everyone, and I think it was good
to have a different racetrack every
me. And I want to thank HRC and
Honda America for having us here and
providing us with tes ng and suspen-
sion, and even the trucks here—the
hospitality is nice."
1 ELI TOMAC
2ND CUP (1-3-2)
"You really can't replicate this racing
environment—this pace—at the test
track, so it's good to get out there, and
we were going for it," Eli Tomac said.
"It was a wild night, really. I was buried
on the start there in the first one, and
I cased the rhythm sec on really hard
when I brain-faded there, but I was
able to get up and by Vince [Friese]
to win it. Then in moto two, I went
up over the roller there and when I
landed, it was just a big highside, and
it kind of threw me over the bars. I got
through the bars pre y well, onto my
feet, and scrambled back, then went
into the Joker Lane earlier that me,
and that paid off in the end, passing
those three guys, so that I was ed
going into that final race. We [he and
Cianciarulo] had a pace going there,
and it was gnarly. We both had our
spots on the track, for sure, so I tried
to do something different because
we were both going so fast, but Adam
held that last lap together really well
and I couldn't get it done."
Cianciarulo's
450cc-class
career is off to a
great start.
Malcolm Stewart
was impressive
in his first race
back from injury,
suffered nine
months ago.
