After his SMX and Paris performances, there wasn’t a lot of hype for Cooper Webb coming into 2024 back on Yamaha, but, as usual the sneaky fast and super gritty Webb has proved everyone wrong again.
He looks faster than he did last season and, despite being ill, took the win at A2 going 2-2-3 in the topsy-turvy motos, that saw Webb’s famed consistency come to the fore again! The Star Yamaha man is now only six points off the leader (Plessinger) in third place in championship, two points behind Chase Sexton and two ahead of Jett Lawrence with Eli Tomac a further two behind the Aussie in a still all-to-play-for 2024 supercross series.
This is what the two-time champ had to say in the press conference on…
The win..
It was awesome. You’ve got to be consistent all day. Like I keep saying, a little weird to not win a main event, but overall, man, it feels great to get a win for the first one of the season. It was a rough, rough end of the year last year. So it feels great to be up here back in the points swing and to represent the new team and all my new sponsors. It feels really awesome.
The difference between now and last year…
I think for me, it’s just overall everything’s gelling really well. The bike change helped me attack a little bit harder, to where last year I relied a lot on consistency and speed was sometimes not there. I feel like now I have the speed when I need it. I feel like I can maneuver things a little bit better. And honestly, I’m really motivated, as always, but I’m having fun. I’m with a really solid group and I think just the change, mentally, was a great thing for me and I’m just enjoying putting in the work again. I have a great crew to ride with and the team is awesome and obviously it’s not easy to one and two here to make us both happy and I feel like they’ve done a great job at making all three of us (including Justin Cooper) happy. I’ve always been a confident person, but I feel like this off season, towards the later half of it I was like, man, I’m doing things on the motorcycle that I know is gonna be good at the race. That’s the biggest thing, I think.
On Jett being booed at opening ceremonies…
I wasn’t aware. So that’s kind of crazy but yeah, we’re in a world where there’s a lot of a lot of crazy things that go around, especially online and stuff. So, I’m sure he like Eli would say the same, it’s always best to keep your head down and you know, as much as you want sometimes knock somebody’s ass out, you just gotta keep it all in.(laughs) But yeah, that’s pretty crazy. I didn’t know that.
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