Eli Tomac got passed by series leader Jett Lawrence in the heat and main event to quell the momentum the former two champ had after the previous weekend – and Eli was not happy with his second place at Daytona saying, “gotta take more risks.”
His bike was smoking for a large portion of the race but Eli didn’t even notice and was more frustrated with himself for not unleashing the quad that Jett, and for a while Sexton, were doing in the main event.
“To be totally honest I didn’t look over at my pit board so I didn’t see anything (smoke), I didn’t feel anything, the motorcycle’s fine. There are treacherous conditions out there”.
“For me, I’m on the clutch a lot and with the ruts that deep, obviously [those conditions] make the bike hot. But I powered through there. Thinking back to the race, [I’m] frustrated I didn’t do the quad; [that] cost me”.
“So gotta take more risks next time. That’s that. So, yeah, second place.”
[When asked more about not jumping the quad jump] “Yeah, that’s all what it came down to. And then I moved over to the right side and… the depth of the rut was a lot smaller, and [I’m] just bummed that I didn’t take that [line] earlier.
“But, ah, try to live and learn and go to the next one.”
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