much better, you know? It was cool to
see how excited everyone else was. It's
awesome when you can win as a team
that way.
It is a team effort, isn't it?
Oh yeah, it is a team effort. Once you
go racing, it's the racer, but there are so many
hours spent in the shop. I think a lot of the riders
don't realize how many hours those guys put in the
shop and all the commuting they do going in and
out of the shop. It's easy to overlook those guys.
Later on, as you mature, you start to appreciate
that stuff more. Salt Lake was unique with those
two races a week, but our sport is different that
way. We're always riding and most of the time, it is
in between the races where we are getting
in our practice laps and fine-tuning things.
I mean it was a perfect scenario for us that
we were even able to just go racing. We
were really fortunate to be able to go do
that.
Salt Lake City seemed like the ideal place
to finish it off like that.
Salt Lake City was a good place to have down
time, and we could get outside, and we did have
one track and a place to ride. And what was really
cool about the Salt Lake thing was that we got re-
ally different conditions there even though we were
stuck to one stadium. We had a hardpack track,
we had a dusty track, we had a late night race,
2020 MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS CHAMPION ELI TOMAC
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Too bad Tomac
couldn't celebrate
his first title with
his fans but at
least he could with
his tuner
Brian Kranz.
