IIIMY OWN RACE:
struggle today for me, but I was able to
ride smart, consistent, and things kind
of went my way, and I ended up on the
box."
1 COOPER WEBB
3RD 450SX
"It was a much be er night tonight
than last week," defending champ
Cooper Webb said. "Eli, kind of all day,
you could tell he was really clicking
with the track, so I knew he was going
to be good, and the same with Ken.
They rode great all day, so I knew it
was going to be a tough main event,
but I put myself in a good situa on—I
was about third the whole me—and
me and Jason [Anderson] played
cat-and-mouse a li le bit, and I kind
of lost track of that lead group. But I
put my head down and charged and
made some me up at the end, and I
was close there. I got third at the first
round, but we were s ll pre y far back,
so I felt like we were a lot closer now."
30 BRANDON HARTRANFT
3RD 250SX
"I got off to a decent start, then
shuffled back to about sixth and ran
sixth for about half the main, and then
[Chris an] Craig went down, and then I
was in fi h behind Jus n [Cooper] and
just kept following Jus n, and a couple
SUPERCROSS
MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES, AN FIM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 3 / JANUARY 18, 2020
ANGEL STADIUM / ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA
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After that, Tomac backed it down a notch and cruised to his first
win of 2020, while Roczen held off defending champ Cooper Webb
(Red Bull KTM) for second.
"It was just believing in myself and finally riding good throughout
the day," Tomac said. "Looking back now at Anaheim 1, that was just
kind of a wash for us; I was just riding around back in 10th place. And
last week was just not giving ourselves a chance at all with where I
was on the start. Tonight, I wasn't right there on the start, but I was
close enough to be in the fight, and I was really making up a lot of
time in the whoops up until probably the cross flags there [halfway],
and then it just got really hard. The whoops kept breaking down, and
the 450s just absolutely pummel that track, so the last half was defi-
nitely some management going on. And with two sets of whoops, and
then turning into a dragon's back, that was really hard. That was a
250SX West winner Dylan Ferrandis (1) left a bruised and battered
Geico Honda team in his wake. The 16-year-old Jett Lawrence (83) was
on rails before coming off the tracks late in the race.
