VOLUME 57 ISSUE 25 JUNE 23, 2020 P51
ROOKIES OF THE YEAR
On Wednesday, Martin Davalos was presented with
the Supercross Rookie of the Year Award in the
450SX class. Davalos is actually a veteran racer but
this was his first full-time effort in the premier class.
Davalos, on the Monster Energy/Team Tedder KTM,
was often found battling up front. His best finish was
a fifth at the Atlanta Supercross. He finished out the
season in 13
th
. Geico Honda's Joe Shimoda was
given the Supercross Rookie of the Year Award in
the 250SX class. Shimoda finished out the season
third in the 250SX East Championship.
NO COLT
Colt Nichols was hoping to help out his fellow
Monster Energy/Star Racing teammates Sunday
but suffered a wrist injury during morning qualifying.
"The day was going well and then I got together with
Chase [Sexton] in the heat race," he said. "I just
misjudged how close he actually was to me and he
was already committed to what he was doing. He
ended up landing on my hand and got me a little
beat up. I'm going to get it checked out and hope-
fully will be all good."
SCOTT BURTNESS
The Rockstar Energy Husqvarna team racers
mentioned after the race they were dedicating their
all-Husqvarna podium to fallen crew member Scott
Burtness. Burtness was Husqvarna's event special-
ist, and was fatally injured in a crash while riding his
adventure bike on Saturday morning. He was 32
years old. Osborne, Anderson and Wilson held up
a "Sweep 4 Burtness" pit board on the podium as a
tribute.
Briefly...
Cooper Webb (1) won all three Wednesday races
at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Mathematically, Webb was
still in title contention going into the final round
Sunday but realistically it wasn't looking good for
the defending champ. He had to win Sunday to have
even a slight chance to retain the number-one plate
but that chance disappeared when he got a bad
jump off the starting line and tangled with another
rider and went down in the first turn. Webb, however,
fought till the end and was rewarded with second
in the championship after a strong push in the final
seven-round stretch in Utah. PHOTO: SIMON CUDBY
