VOLUME 57 ISSUE 28 JULY 14, 2020 P73
A
few days before the teams
of the Monster Energy AMA
Supercross encroached
upon Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt
Lake City for what would be the final
stretch of what was a somewhat
calamitous and unprecedented
Supercross season, 16-time AMA
Champion Ricky Carmichael,
ruminated about just what might be
lurking in the immediate future.
"Well, it's not charted waters," the
16-time AMA champion said. "First
and foremost, of what I can say is
that whoever wins this champion-
ship, in my mind, will be and should
be crowned as the winner of the
hardest Monster Energy Supercross
Series Championship in history
because of what we've been faced
with as far as the pandemic. Being in
championship form and then having
to be forced into a 12-week shutoff
and then to now be forced to get
right back into it, both mentally and
physically, I feel, is going to be a re-
ally tough challenge. The guy that is
able to do that the best and con-
tinue the consistency and the good
racecraft and being up front when he
needs to be up front, is going to be
the guy who is going to be victori-
ous. And I've been in some great
championship battles throughout my
career. 2006 comes to mind where
it was basically winner-take-all at
Vegas for the title, and I still think this
is going to supersede that season as
the greatest championship in super-
cross history. I'm excited, but at the
same time, it's uncharted waters for
everybody."
As we all know now, Eli Tomac
and his Monster Energy Kawasaki
Team, ended up barreling through
those uncharted waters better than
In the past, Tomac
seemed to have
trouble dealing with
misfortune. Not so
this year.
JOHNSON
EXTRATERRESTRIAL
"ET" finally got
his long-awaited
Supercross
Championship.
You knew it was
going to happen.
(But doubts were
beginning to
creep in, weren't
they?) But, really, it
was just a matter
of time. Well, that
time is now.
