SUPERCROSS
MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES, AN FIM WORLD
ROUND 9 / MARCH 4, 2017
ROGERS CENTRE / TORONTO, ON, CANADA
P56
BY STEVE COX
PHOTOGRAPHY BY HOPPENWORLD.COM
A
ll any racer wants in a
championship chase is to
know what it is that they
have to do to win the title without
the word "and" included. "You
have to win, and that guy has to
finish fourth or worse." The and
is the problem. Racers can only
control themselves, and they
want to control their own des-
tiny—all they have to do is "this"
and that's all it takes.
Right now, at this point,
Monster Energy Kawasaki's Eli
Tomac controls his own destiny.
But so does Red Bull KTM's
Ryan Dungey.
In Toronto, Tomac scored his
fourth win in the last six races.
One of the two races he lost
in that stretch was because of
front-brake malfunction, and the
other was due to a poor start
that left him with a runner-up
finish to Dungey, who led from
the beginning of the race. As it
sits now, Tomac trails Dungey
by 24 points with eight rounds
left to run. Winning a main event
awards a racer three points more
than finishing second does. As
of now, Tomac needs help from
nobody else to win the champi-
onship. All he needs to do is win
all eight of the remaining races,
and if Dungey manages to finish
second every single time, the
two will tie on points, with the
tiebreaker going to the man with
the most wins on the season.
That would be Tomac.
Eli Tomac was back
to his now-usual
self at the Toronto
Supercross. He got
out front early and
pulled away.
CONTROLLING
