Monster Energy/Kawasaki’s Jason Anderson would bring ‘er home right behind Hill in 6th, with teammate Adam Cianciarulo, who rallied back from an injury that had him on the sidelines for a couple races, placing a strong 8th. Rounding out the 450 class top ten scoring for Monster Energy was Justin Hill (Team Tedder), scoring a season-best 5th place finish. (I) Just want to go out there and put my best foot forward, try to win these last two races. “I guess at this point my goal would be podiums.”Īdded Sexton: “Obviously, he’s (Tomac) got a big points lead.

“I’ll do what I can to manage it, and not take any unnecessary risks,” said the two-time Monster Energy AMA Supercross champion Tomac. The veteran Tomac, though, says the plan is to play it safe. Massive turn of events in the Monster Energy AMA Supercross championship series’ overall 450 points chase on Saturday as Monster Energy’s Chase Sexton (Honda) raced to victory, ahead of overall point leader Eli Tomac (Monster Energy/Star Racing/Yamaha), to give Monster Energy the 1-2 main event finish at Nashville’s (Tenn.) Nissan Stadium.Īnd in pursuit of overall point leader Tomac the past several races, KTM’s Cooper Webb (2nd place overall heading into Nashville) suffered a rough get off in his heat race and was unable to answer the bell for the 450 main event – allowing race winner Sexton to take over sole possession of 2nd place in the series, 18 points back of Tomac (338-320) with two races remaining on the ’23 Monster Energy AMA Supercross series schedule.įor Tomac, a possible victory next week at his home track in Denver would give him a 21-point lead (should Sexton place 2nd in Denver), and afford him a 17th place (or better) finish cushion at the Salt Lake City finals to secure the ’23 Monster Energy AMA Supercross premier 450 class championship (with a Sexton win at SLC).

Captives of the night by loretta chase