WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
VOL. 54 ISSUE 7 FEBRUARY 22, 2017 P47
POINT, IT SEEMS
FOREGONE CONCLUSION
TOMAC DOESN'T
MAJOR PROBLEM,
WILL LIKELY WIN.
That's how sports work sometimes.
In some alternate universe, where
Tomac doesn't go down and injure
himself in Colorado, would he have
gone 24-0? And would he then have
started off 2016 doing the same on
his new Kawasaki?
Even in this universe where we
all live, as of the end of round three
of this year's Monster Energy AMA
Supercross Series, it seemed as if the
Eli Tomac of 2015 may never been
seen or heard from again.
D
uring almost the entire 2016
season, and the beginning of
the 2017 season, Monster En-
ergy Kawasaki's Eli Tomac struggled.
Sure, he won a few races here and
there, but he never looked like the guy
who was absolutely dominating the
2015 AMA Motocross Championship
prior to his crazy crash and injury in
Colorado that year. A lot of people be-
gan to wonder if the start of the 2015
MX series was just a moment in time
for Tomac that had been forever lost.
BY STEVE COX
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROB KOY
The start of the
450SX main was
not good for Chad
Reed (22). He
went down in the
first turn and again
later in the race.
