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Cycle News 2020 Issue 05 February 4

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does, but he's been super locked- in lately—so I knew I was going to have to make a move around Ken. Eli wasn't going to sit in third the whole me. So, that's where my head was, but Eli got me before I was able to get Ken. I felt really good physi- cally all day, but I really didn't get a chance to ride this week that much because of the back [injury] thing from last weekend, and I think that contributed to the arm-pump I got tonight. I got crazy bad arm-pump, and then Cooper [Webb] came up on me, and I knew he'd be strong at the end, so I basically let him by because I didn't have anything le to give. I damned near whisky-thro led into the face of the jump before the finish line, and I just rode it on in from there. I'm more stoked with this week, honestly, than I was even at Anaheim 1 when I got second, because I felt like I rode closer to my poten al." 1 COOPER WEBB 2ND 450SX Cooper Webb caught fire in the last half of the Oakland 450SX main event and grabbed his best finish of the year with a last-turn pass on Ken Roczen. "I finally just raced ahead tonight," Webb said. "I think I've just been kind of conserva ve and not laying it out there like all of these guys have been, so today and tonight was a much be er direc on—we fought hard there at the end, but we s ll need a li le bit more there at the beginning. But overall, I'm pre y happy, and I feel like I'm in a good spot moving forward." SUPERCROSS MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES, AN FIM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 5 / FEBRUARY 1, 2020 RINGCENTRAL COLISEUM / OAKL AND, CALIFORNIA P68 IIIMY OWN RACE: 9 ADAM CIANCIARULO 4TH 450SX Adam Cianciarulo was part of the ba le up front for the first half of the race, un l arm-pump set in. "It was crazy," Cianciarulo said. "I was super- stoked on my start, because I've been terrible, and then I got around Eli there in the third turn, and I was behind Ken, and I knew Eli had some serious pace—I mean, he always Justin Cooper (32) charged hard but surrendered the 250SX West points lead to Ferrandis. 7. Dean Wilson (Hus) 8. Justin Hill (Hon) 9. Blake Baggett (KTM) 10. Malcolm Stewart (Hon) 250SX West 1. Dylan Ferrandis (Yam) 2. Austin Forkner (Kaw) 3. Justin Cooper (Yam) 4. Alex Martin (Suz) 5. Luke Clout (Hon) 6. Mitchell Oldenburg (Hon) 7. Derek Drake (KTM) 8. Brandon Hartranft (KTM) 9. Aaron Tanti (Yam) 10. Martin Castelo (Hus)

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