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IIIMY OWN RACE: main was tough. Then, ge ng a bad start and trying to work my way back up into the top 10, it was really gnarly. The track condi ons were pre y challeng- ing. It was slick in some spots and really ru ed. So, you had to be on your toes at all mes or the track was going to take you down. It took a lot of people down, and I'm glad I wasn't one of them. It was tough day, but we're making progress. We'll go back this week, put some more work in and work a li le bit more on the starts and sprint laps so I can get a be er gate pick. I want to try and get up on the podium or at least in the top five." 1 COOPER WEBB 12TH 450SX Cooper Webb came to St. Louis s ll feeling the effects of his illness that hampered him at Anaheim 1. This me, however, he was unable to find a way to get on the podium. "Tonight definitely didn't end up how I had wanted it to," Webb said. "I struggled all day to get comfortable, and unfortunately I was just not able to make it happen tonight. We are going to regroup, work on ge ng healthy and hopefully get back up on the podium next weekend in Anaheim." 32 JUSTIN COOPER 2ND 250SX WEST Jus n Cooper got his first-ever AMA Su- percross win at round one in Anaheim, but his starts cost him in St. Louis. He passed more than 10 racers between SUPERCROSS MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES, AN FIM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 2 / JANUARY 11, 2020 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI / THE DOME AT AMERICA'S CENTER P62 night in Anaheim. "This is unbelievable," Roczen said. "I mean, I made a pass out there pretty quick in the begin- ning. I ran it in there pretty hard, but sorry to Zach, but I just had to go. I told my mechanic [Jordan Troxell], I said, 'I want to win so frickin' bad,' and that's what we did. The team really excelled this week. We were scrambling a little bit, but we came out with a plan and it seems like the plan turned out really well for tonight." Roczen still wasn't 100-percent satisfied with his motorcycle's settings, but after a dominant performance like that one, he's not going to press his luck. "We've been tweaking with the bike throughout the entire day, and I feel like we still could have been better, but the fact we rode the way we rode right now I think I'm just going to leave it and enjoy the racing," Roczen said. gy Kawasaki), made a lot of mis- takes in the early laps but still sat fourth on the last lap, in a Rock- star Energy Husqvarna sandwich between Jason Anderson in third and Osborne in fifth, and Kawa- saki's Eli Tomac had caught that group after starting around 15th. On the last lap, Cianciarulo went down on his own and remounted in seventh, where he finished. During the kerfuffle, Tomac also passed Osborne, which put Tomac in fourth, behind Ander- son in third, Barcia in second, and Roczen out front. Osborne was fifth, Malcolm Stewart (Smartop/Motoconcepts Honda) sixth, then Cianciarulo, Justin Brayton, Blake Baggett (Rocky Mountain ATV-MC KTM), Aaron Plessinger, Justin Hill, and then defending champion Cooper Webb (Red Bull KTM) who was still feeling the effects of the illness that hit him last Saturday Adam Cianciarulo (9) and Osborne went at it in the 450SX main.