Tomac: Finally a really good day!

Eli Tomac expressed his relief at finally getting his first official win of the year (Tomac won the third main of the triple crown but that doesn’t count as an official race win), and said he was feeling the best he has all season on the bike.

“This was finally a really good day. The first rounds I was never “on” and having that feeling,” admitted Tomac. “Today was kind of wild with the conditions, we weren’t on the normal dirt, but overall it was the direction we wanted to go, qualifying was good, we were getting better starts and putting ourselves in a good position, it paid off.”

On the difficulty of navigating the muddy and rutted track, Tomac said: “Once the rain stopped it started getting thicker and made the bike heavy and lines in the rhythm section really sketchy and squirrelly.”

Tomac encountered a few hairy moments at the end of the race and talked through an eventful last lap as a few incidents made it close at the end.

“I thought I had a sizeable lead and did, then I ended up catching my footpeg in the haybale after the first set of whoops and and to pull it off,” explained Eli.

“I was hoping it didn’t get stuck into the sprocket because it would have been over at that point. I got that off and then the turn before the triple, I’m not sure who it was, but I got blasted in the face by a guy and he fell down, then I couldn’t see and I had to stop again and pull my roll-off to keep going, luckily I had that little gap there to do it!”

With Tomac getting his first win of the year and taking over the points lead as well as admitting he feels back to his A game, the pressure will be on the other riders to ensure Tomac doesn’t go on one of his famous win steaks and start to take command of the series.

One thing is for certain next weekend though – the race in Minneapolis takes place in a dome so it will be definitely be dry and the riders will get to snow their supercross skills again!