SUPERCROSS
MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS, AN FIM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 5 / FEBRUARY 3, 2018
OAKLAND COLISEUM / OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
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HOPES DASHED
There's a lot of racing left, as they say,
but it would take a historically unprec-
edented championship run from this
point to land Eli Tomac at the top of the
2018 AMA Supercross Championship.
After leading the series opener, and
then crashing out and missing round
two as well, Tomac trailed Jason An-
derson in the standings by 48 points.
But with two wins in a row at rounds
three and four, Tomac had cut that
gap by a quarter—that's 12 points, to a
deficit of 36—and the idea of him win-
ning the title seemed very realistic. But
if those two main events represented
two steps forward, the Oakland main
event represented three steps back.
After getting a bad start, then having
trouble moving forward early in the
main event, Tomac was taken out by
the hard-charging Justin Barcia, and
then had to work his way forward from
last place to 13th at the finish. Now,
with only 12 rounds left to run, he finds
himself 52 points behind Anderson.
A-MART
TLD Red Bull KTM's Alex Martin
came into 2018 with high hopes,
but a big crash at the series opener
in Anaheim left him with a DNF and
nursing a fractured collarbone. He
took four weeks (three races) off
after that, but returned to action in
Oakland. Martin grabbed the hole-
Briefly...
Marvin Musquin continues to get
stronger after his shoulder injury.
He was fourth in Oakland.
