IIIMY OWN RACE:
and he was definitely a pre-race favorite
to win Anaheim 1 again. However, the
rough, ru ed track made it clear to
Roczen and his team that they s ll have
some work to do on his motorcycle set-
up. "We had some struggles out there,"
Roczen said. "I think, for safety reasons
over the years, I've set my bike up
really s ff [when he had his legendary
crash at Anaheim 2 in 2017, part of the
reason for that crash has been blamed
on his suspension being too so ], but I
think we just went too far now. It was
borderline unrideable for me out there.
So that definitely didn't make it easy on
me, but the good news is that we found
the limit of things, and we just have to
back it off a bit. I'm surprised we got
sixth with the way I rode, and even
so, with a li le bit of luck, if I could've
go en by [Vince] Friese earlier in the
race, I could've been on the podium no
problem, so we'll take the lessons and
move on to St. Louis."
10 JUSTIN BRAYTON
8TH 450SX
Honda HRC's Jus n Brayton got the
first gate pick for the main event a er
winning the fastest heat race of the
night, and then while running in the
top five, he had a run-in with Jason
Anderson and went down, eventually
finishing eighth. "I won my heat, and
I felt good, but the main was super-
gnarly," Brayton said. "The turns, they
got so ru ed that we were basically
turning underneath the berm, so that
was pre y strange, and that messed
up the run into the next sec on.
Overall, I ran top-three for over half
the race and ended up crashing when
[Jason] Anderson cleaned me out, and
I ended up eighth. It might have been
par ally my fault, I don't know. No
harm, no foul."
SUPERCROSS
MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES, AN FIM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 1 / JANUARY 4, 2020
ANGEL STADIUM / ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA
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(Above) Webb was feeling under the weather all day but somehow still
managed to finish out the night on the podium, passing Ken Roczen along the
way. (Below) Blake Baggett flew under the radar all day but came alive in the
main to finish fourth. He toured opening ceremonies with his new son Braeker.
