cross-championship potential.
Tomac's never won the AMA
Supercross title, and his record
of results while running the red
number-plate on his KX450 hasn't
been all that great. He survived
one round with the red plate in Ar-
lington, at the Triple Crown event,
and scored a win, but faltered
only a week later in Atlanta, leav-
ing him tied in points with Atlanta
winner Roczen. Having won the
Daytona Supercross three of the
last four years, if Tomac struggled
at Daytona this year, it could've
been a sign that the pressure of
winning a supercross title was
catching up to him.
But he didn't. After qualifying
first, and finishing third in his heat
race, Tomac got a mediocre start,
then passed his way through the
field methodically until he took
the lead with just two minutes to
go in the race and sped off with
the win—his fifth of the series—
over Roczen, who led every lap
up until that point.
Red Bull KTM's Cooper Webb
put in a solid ride for another po-
dium finish to keep himself in the
championship hunt.
"Tonight, it was just a little bit
of patience in the beginning, be-
cause the pace was hot early on,"
Tomac said. "And then it seemed
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ROUND 10 / MARCH 7, 2020
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just got it handed to us. But it's good
to be on the podium, so I'm stoked
on that, and we're going to work this
week, and I feel like I'm finally healed
up enough to try to contend, so I'll
take a podium, but I really want to get
another win."
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Jason Anderson was in the fight all
night long and ended up fourth. "The
heat race went well," Anderson said.
"I almost got into the lead there, but
I ended up second. In the main, I got
the holeshot and fell back to fourth,
but I pushed forward and almost had
third. It was a good race for me, and I
just have to keep racing out there with
the boys."
The Daytona race had to have been a
disappointment for Roczen, who had a big lead
but was reeled in and passed by Tomac.
