SUPERCROSS
MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES
ROUND 1 / JANUARY 6, 2018
ANGEL STADIUM OF ANAHEIM / ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA
P58
Briefly...
TOO EASY?
The track at Anaheim I was con-
sidered "easy" by most of the top
racers, but in a way, that made it
difficult. It was difficult because it
was "easy to over-ride the track."
That's what may have bitten Tomac
in the main event. Just about every
racer we talked to said that the
track's layout made it so there was
very little to separate racers. "When
tracks are more difficult, sometimes
we have to slow down to really make
sure we make it through certain sec-
tions clean," Adam Cianciarulo said
after finishing third in the 250SX
main. "But with this track, we were
basically at 100 percent the entire
time. For 15 minutes plus one lap,
we were going as fast as we could."
But because of this, racers found
it difficult to make up time on each
other. "You could spend five or six
laps making up a 10th of a second
each lap, just trying to get up to
the guy in front of you, but then you
could make one little mistake and
lose a half a second, and you're
right back where you started," Cian-
ciarulo said.
EQUAL FOOTING
Metal starting-gate platforms are
now being used with the intentions
of providing every rider with equal
traction. "The new metal starting
gate makes it more consistent when
lining up behind the gate, but the
Jason Anderson
was again solid
at A1, this time
getting second
place.
