Webb Wins King Of The Motos
A
fter getting left off the King
of the Hammers schedule
last year, the King of the Mo-
tos (KOM) portion returned in
2020 as the opening round of
the Sherco AMA West Extreme
Championship, February 9, in
Lucerne Valley, California. Also,
returning was Cody Webb who
has been out of action for nearly
a year while recuperating from a
knee injury, and his return also
coincided with his first outing as a
member of the new Factory One
Sherco Team. The former KTM
rider, made his Sherco debut a
successful one by capturing the
over win at the Progressive Insur-
ance King of the Motos. It was
Webb's fifth win at the KOM.
King of the Motos creator
Jimmy Lewis participated in this
year's KOM race, giving Justin
Leineweber the responsibility of
organizing the race, which was
made up of three different loops.
Not surprisingly, Leineweber
kept the iconic and highly antici-
pated land-rush start to kick off
the race, the bronze loop, fol-
lowed by the silver and eventually
the gold. Only four riders would
enter the gold loop, but none of
them finished within the allotted
time frame.
It first appeared that RedBull
Factory KTM rider Manuel Letten-
bichler would take the win, but
a GPS error on his part led him
off-course during the gold loop
where he missed the step-up
waterfall section, the Backdoor.
The error resulted in an hour pen-
alty, dropping him back to fourth
position.
Rockstar Energy Husqvarna
Factory Team rider Colton Haaker
made the exact same error
shortly after, resulting in the same
penalty, moving Manuel back up
to his final third-place position.
This opened the door for Webb to
take the crown.
RPM Racing's Trystan Hart
took second. "You got to follow
the course," Hart said. "It hap-
pened to Cody three years ago. It
IN
THE
WIND
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Cody Webb made
his Sherco debut
a successful one
by winning the
King of the Motos
for the fifth time.
PHOTOS: MARY RINELL
Trystan Hart
had a strong
ride and took
home the
second-place
medal.
