VOL. 54 ISSUE 50 DECEMBER 19, 2017 P167
Eli [Tomac]. People say, 'What's wrong?' this whole
season. 'What was wrong?' I'm thinking, we all go
through these tough times. You've got to motivate
yourself, but we're all feeling that. But Eli just raised
it a level higher than what you would see in a sea-
son. I think we all saw that. The first three rounds
weren't great and then all of a sudden at Phoenix it
was like, 'Holy buckets!' He was putting a second
on me a lap. He beat us by 20 seconds! The guy
was on fire. So, just with that, that was challenging.
Trying to make up that speed, trying to find the right
bike setup and the team and I collaborating. What
are we going to do to beat this guy? We didn't focus
on him, we focused on ourselves, but it started us
working on a plan and hoping that was enough."
Tomac was going as fast as anybody's gone
around a supercross track in 2017, but Dungey
didn't give up.
"Just like outdoors last year with Ken [Roczen
in 2016]," Dungey said. "He was on a little bit bet-
ter level than us and we had to bridge that gap.
There we are trying real hard and we just make a
slight mistake."
That mistake caused Dungey to hit the ground hard
early in the second moto in Colorado. He finished
the race in fourth place despite the fall, then realized
something was wrong with his neck. After doctors
checked it out, he ended up sitting out the rest of the
series. As it turns out, that Colorado MX National was
the last outdoor motocross race of Dungey's career.
2007 = 0
2008 = 3
2009 = 4
Total = 7
2010 = 10
2011 = 4
2012 = 10
2013 = 3
2014 = 4
2015 = 7
2016 = 1
Total = 39
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Dungey and his tuner Carlos Rivera
celebrate their fourth Supercross
title at Las Vegas.
