Tomac settled for fourth after
a disastrous 10th-place finish
a week ago. "This weekend
was an improvement over last
weekend," Tomac said. "I felt
pretty solid in the main event.
I was a little bit behind at the
start, and, for the majority of the
race, I was running in third. Then
Jett ended up getting me at the
end of the race, but it was an
improvement from the weekend
before."
Hunter Lawrence grabbed
his best finish of the year with a
fifth, marking the first time two
brothers have finished inside the
top five of a 450SX main event.
can't catch up, you can't give
them that extra gap. It was a
good finish to get third, espe
-
cially with how it started."
Lawrence talked about dicing
with Tomac: "It was just learning
how he flows and where the kink
in the armor could be," Lawrence
said. "It was cool to follow him;
obviously, nowadays, [he's] not
the exact same as the beast
he used to be, but it's still Eli
Tomac, and it's cool to learn
from him. I was looking for
-
ward to a battle, but I got on the
inside and still left a bit of room
but then just put my head down
and clicked the laps off."
short battle went the way of the
18 as he passed Tomac and
finished a lonely third. This is
Lawrence's third podium of the
year and bumps him back to the
points lead, six clear of second
place.
"I didn't give myself the best
opportunity to go on for a win
today with just getting a ter
-
rible start," Lawrence said. "But
it was cool to climb my way
through. It was a cool accom
-
plishment to catch and pass
Eli, and just happy I was able to
fight back to a podium position.
[The] front boys, they were gone,
going similar speeds here, you
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Eli Tomac rebounded
for fourth this week,
but it still wasn't what
he was looking for.
