SUPERCROSS
2015 MONSTER ENERGY CUP
OCTOBER 17, 2015
SAM BOYD STADIUM / LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
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ally properly awarded to Roczen,
who crossed in second place.
The Joker Lane was approxi-
mately six seconds slower than
the regular line, but the penalty
for missing the Joker Lane was
five positions, which means
Anderson was credited with sixth
place in the first main event. For
the record, Anderson crossed
the line more than six seconds in
front of Roczen despite putting it
was Anderson missing the Joker
Lane in the very first main event
of the night.
Yes, he did manage to win a
Toyota Tundra by virtue of his
three consecutive holeshots, but
he had a legitimate chance at
winning the overall, except that
he forgot to take the dreaded
Joker Lane in the first main
event. He crossed the line as
the victor, but the win was actu-
es. He ended up 10th overall
with a 9-16-8 score.
THE UGLY
And then there's Yoshimura
Suzuki's James Stewart, who
came off of the high of winning
the Red Bull Straight Rhythm a
week earlier, then came into the
Monster Energy Cup hopeful
about what he could achieve. He
qualified sixth overall, less than
half a second behind first-place
Canard, but got a terrible start
in the first main event before
crashing as he tried to avoid the
downed Canard, sliding out in
the slick conditions just like Ca-
nard had. Stewart ended up 18th
in the first race and then called it
a night.
Another ugly moment at the
Cup came when Red Bull KTM's
Dean Wilson was battling with
his teammate Dungey late in the
second main event. Dungey got
a wheel on Wilson going into the
first turn, and somehow Wilson
swapped out and went down
hard on a very fast part of the
track. It took him a while to get
up, and he later dropped out for
the night. Stewart had earlier in
the day jammed his right wrist
when he cased a jump and did
it again just moments after his
get-together with Canard. After
the race, Stewart and his team
chose to call it a night, worried
that his painful wrist might cause
a crash.
TIPPING POINT
In hindsight, the tipping point
