2020 MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS CHAMPION ELI TOMAC
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Interview
any, which resulted in the 27-year-old veteran racer
from Colorado winnnig the 2020 Monster Energy
AMA Supercross Championship for the first time in
his career. He's the 23rd different person to do so,
and he is also the oldest to win the championship
for the first time.
We spoke with Tomac over the Fourth of July
weekend when he was kicking back at home,
reflecting on what had to be one of the wildest and
most bizarre Supercross title fights ever.
Now that you've had some time to think
about it, what does it mean to you to be a Su-
percross Champion?
Oh, it's everything. The 450 Supercross Cham-
pionship is the pinnacle of our sport, I believe. So,
man, it was everything to me. We've been so close
two or three times and there were times where I
was thinking in my head, 'Man, will I ever get this
