WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
VOL. 52 ISSUE 2 JANUARY 13, 2015 P41
Briefly...
After finishing fourth in the 450 main,
Weston Peick revealed the next day
via Instagram that he suffered a bro-
ken bone in his foot when he cased
a jump three laps from the end of the
race that allowed Ryan Dungey to
pass him. Peick said that he is going
to have the foot examined further. It
is not yet known if he'll be able to ride
the next round at Anaheim II or not.
Ken Roczen got off to another good
start in the main, getting away in sec-
ond behind Eli Tomac before quickly
passing for the lead. After the race,
the Soaring Eagle/RCH/Jimmy
Johns Suzuki rider talked about his
starts. "It's fun to finally get my starts
dialed," said Roczen. "I think the Su-
zuki really suits me in that regard; I
can get all the power to the ground."
The Phoenix track is always a con-
cern for the riders as it is usually hard
and pretty dry, however, Roczen
thought this year's course was good.
"It was super tacky, but it had a few
slick spots," said Roczen. "Usually
Phoenix gets pretty hard. It was defi-
nitely different from usual, but it was
good to finally have a more difficult
track."
One of the places that Eli Tomac was
gaining time on Ken Roczen was on
the Dragon Back near the finish
line. "For me, it [the Dragon Back]
was just about carrying my front
wheel over them, I was literally just
'manualing' the thing," said Tomac.
"This was a different style Dragon
Back, some of them you have to
skim up, they are really steep and
kind of gnarly, but this one was mel-
low enough, you could just float the
front end up it."
Most of the riders liked the Phoenix
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ELI TOMAC HAD
SOMETHING TO SAY
ABOUT KEN ROCZEN'S
WIN AT THE SERIES
OPENER. HE RESPONDED
AT PHOENIX WITH AN
IMPRESSIVE WIN OF
HIS OWN, THE FIRST
OF HIS CAREER.
TOMAC
ANSWERS BACK
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHAN MOORE
I
n light of Ken Roczen's dominant
win last week at the opening
round of the Monster Energy AMA
Supercross Series at Anaheim,
California, when the RCH Soaring
Eagle/Jimmy John's factory Suzuki
rider passed Eli Tomac in turn three
of this weekend's round in Phoenix
and then squirted off to a quick
lead, it was reasonable to think that
this year was going to be a Roczen
runaway; a one-rider blowout. Eli
Tomac, however, was having none
of that, and changed many people's
minds by running down the German
transplant to take his first-ever 450
Eli Tomac was
excited, not to
mention a little
relieved, to capture
his first ever
Supercross win.
