WEBB REBOUNDS AT BRAZIL SUPERENDURO
A
fter his third-place finish in
Argentina a week earlier,
FMF KTM Factory rider Cody
Webb came to Brazil looking for
redemption, and he got it, taking
the overall win at round four of
the Maxxis FIM SuperEnduro
World Champoinship in Belo
Horizonte. Webb's 1-2-2 over-
all score was good enough to
edge out Colton Haaker (2-3-1)
for the Prestige-class win in
Brazil. Jonny Walker went 3-1-3
to round out the podium, giving
each of the top-three riders in
the championship a win.
Webb was a holeshotting
machine in Brazil, even in the
second main, which saw him
take the last gate pick due to
the reverse-order format. But as
KTM race boss Antti Kallonen
explained, "Cody was very fast
today but he made it hard on
himself with too many crashes."
Webb kicked off his night with
a victory in the first race with
Rockstar Energy Husqvarna's
Haaker second and Walker
third. Webb then pulled a
miraculous holeshot in the
second race only to crash in
the matrix and fall back to third.
From there, Haaker inherited
the lead, but suffered a crash of
his own, and fell back to third.
That put Walker in the lead and
Webb into second, where they
finished.
"I felt like I had it but I had a
weird crash on a jump," Haaker
commented. "The front just
washed out and there was no
way I could save it. That for me
was the whole GP over as I went
back to third. I could have won
there."
Although Haaker was pleased
with his runner-up finish in
Brazil—matching his career-best
finish of the previous round—he
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FUTURE7MEDIA
Cody Webb grabs the holeshot ahead of
Jonny Walker (22), just as he did in all three
main events in Brazil.
