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mistake moments later by the 32-year-old veteran dropped him to the back of the pack while silencing the crowd. However, the Monster Energy Star Rac- ing Yamaha rider looked like the Tomac of old and steadily worked his way up through the pack, passing Justin Barcia on the last lap to take an impres- sive fifth. "Talk about a high to a low," Tomac said. "I couldn't believe it; I tucked my front end. Anaheim always gets slick, and I didn't respect that." Barcia crossed the line sixth just behind Tomac but ahead of Tomac's teammate, Justin Coo- per. Justin Hill (Team Tedder Racing-KTM) put in an impres- sive result against the factory teams for eighth. Red Bull KTM's Aaron Plessinger and Rockstar Energy Husqvarna's Malcolm Stewart, who rebounded from a nasty heat-race crash, com- pleted the top 10. A tough night for Hunter and Jett Lawrence saw the Honda HRC Progressive duo finish 11th and 12th, respectively. Jett found himself stuck in the Tuff Blocks off the start. "I felt like I got a good jump, and the Tuff Blocks—[down] the start straight, they lined up kind of awkwardly," he said of the first-turn incident. He crashed again soon after in the sand sec- tion. This is the first time he's ever finished outside the top 10 in a 450SX race. Lawrence admitted he was having issues with the bike. "We still have to figure out the bike; it's still making some troubles for us in the whoops and stuff like that," he said. "We tried skimming [the whoops] and skimming was sketchy, so we tried jumping, and I think I was sketchy jumping. At least the only way to go is up, for me. We'll come back and we will be better." Hunter ran up front early on but crashed in the whoops and narrowly missed the top 10 cutoff. ROUND 1 / JANUARY 11, 2025 ANGEL STADIUM OF ANAHEIM / ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA SUPERCROSS I MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS / SUPERMOTOCROSS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP P58 Jo Shimoda led wire-to-wire in the 250SX West class.