VOL. 50 ISSUE 36 SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
Tomac will begin
his 450 career
at the Monster
Energy Cup in
November.
guys from now on?
I do watch them at home. I got
to race them a little bit in Supercross, but I don't really think that
was a good showing at all. But, I
can't wait. It's going to be a whole
new deal, new competition.
Q: You were actually considering racing a 450 outdoors this year, too.
That would have been a bad
move, I think.
JUST KIND OF SICK OF
" I WASFOR NOT PUTTING TWO MOTOS
MYSELF
TOGETHER.
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Q: Why do you think that?
It all turned out all right, but I
was over the 250 at the time. But
since we did get it working a little
bit better, and then I actually did
win some races in a row and won
the championship, I think it would
have been better than me getting
fifth in the 450 class all year or
something like that.
Q: Now you know what it's
like to have that sort of confidence, you have a National
title, and you're heading into
the 450cc class a winner.
Yeah, it all fell in the right place!
Q: Obviously it's early, but
do you expect to be racing for
wins in the 450cc class next
year?
I could, yeah. I really do think
I can battle for wins. I don't know
if it'll be right away. It should be,
but that's the thing; it's all mental
again. So, I don't know. Supercross might be a little bit different, at the beginning, but I think
come outdoors I'll be ready to
fight for wins right away.
Q: Now, you've been picked
to go to the Motocross of Nations. What does that mean to
you?
The Motocross of Nations is
like - I didn't really pay attention
to it when I was a little dude, but
I'd just hear about it. For me, it's
like, when you're on the Motocross of Nations, you're the bad-
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dest guy in that country; the raddest, fastest dude. So, for me to
be on it, I'm like, "Yeah, I'm one
of those guys." So that's what's
cool about it to me.
You have to earn it.
Q: Do you think it'll be weird
to be racing against a bunch of
guys you've never seen before?
You know, the whole European scene is going to be new,
but I did do Bercy and a couple
stadium races last year, so that's
going to be good for me. The
crowd's a totally bigger scale and
it'll be a little bit crazier, probably.
But it won't be totally new to me. I
won't be afraid of it.
Q: Team USA is historically
dominant at that event, so you
have some big shoes to fill.
How does that make you feel?
You know, I think if we just
go ride like we're riding here,
we'll get the number one back
because I think we do have the
strongest three guys, as a team.
So it's all about us just making it
happen and not buckling. And at
least this year's track I think is not
anything crazy-unique, where last
year it just totally threw a wrench
in everyone's sprocket.
Q: You're good on hardpacked stuff, too.
Yeah, hard-packed won't
bother us. I think [Ryan] Dungey
is good in it and [Justin] Barcia probably doesn't mind it as
