SUPERCROSS
MONSTER ENERGY CUP
MONSTER ENERGY CUP / OCTOBER 14, 2017
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA / MONSTER ENERGY CUP
P62
All in all it was a good night. I'm
coming back from injury and
I've had four or five weeks on
the bike. The whole team did a
great job today. Kind of almost
felt like I had the first-race jitters,
just from taking off that last half
of outdoors. But Marv rode great
and I was the second-best guy
tonight."
Going 2-2-2 on the night still
gave Anderson a cool $35,000
for his effort, though, which is
nothing to sneeze at, even if it
does come up $965,000 short
of Musquin's payday.
And behind Anderson there
were two other Austrian motor-
cycles battling it out for the final
podium spot, with Anderson's
teammate Dean Wilson—fast
qualifier during the afternoon—
fighting through illness to go 3-5
in the first two main events, and
pen every time, so we enjoyed it
and it was super fun."
Going into the final moto, the
one guy who seemed most likely
to be able to take the million dol-
lars from Musquin happened to
be his training partner, Rock-
star Energy Husqvarna's Jason
Anderson. Anderson had good
starts and finished second in
the first two main events, and he
wasn't going to just let Musquin
take the money. He says he
didn't really have a choice. Mus-
quin was just better.
"For sure Marv was riding
great," Anderson said. "For me,
honestly, to go that speed, I was
pushing myself so hard that I'd
make a little mistake here and
there. I felt like I would have it
every once in a while but then I
would just be pushing a little bit
too hard and make a mistake.
Musquin is now a million dol-
lars richer, for one night's work.
"A lot of people are watching
on TV and the stadium there was
a lot of people today," Musquin
said. "So to see that someone
is winning one million in one
night, at a motorcross race, it's
so unique. I think we got a lot of
views and people will be talk-
ing about it, that's for sure. So
it's good for the sport. When I
crossed that finish line and when
I met with all my people, the
team and everybody, we were all
just laughing like crazy. Like, 'Are
you serious?' It's like being at the
casino and winning the jackpot.
You're like, 'Are you serious?' It
just doesn't happen often. It's
just super cool. It doesn't hap-
Dean Wilson was the top qualifier
and was fast all night. He
completed the Cup podium.
