Roczen on his first supercross win of 2023 – huge accomplishment
Ken Roczen spoke to media about a huge and emotional win on the HEP Suzuki at Indianapolis and he feels it’s the biggest win of his career…
On his journey to the top step from first riding the bike
“As much as I gelled with the bike when I first got on it, I feel like we had a lot of stuff thrown at us at the begining of the season. I have been on so many different set-ups, it was definitely tough there and I have definietly have some races that I wasnt happy with. Most importantly we never gave. The team and I we have been out on the track until 7pm sometimes, especially the week before Tampa, and we just weren’t letting off until I felt like we could.
“So, this night, I have dreamed of for many, many months and it seemed so far away especially after these last few races. I wasn’t anywhere near, my starts weren’t good and I wasn’t anywhere near even a podium. To pull this one off on a track like this tonight, i have to let this settle in. I don’t want to let this get to my head or think that this will happen every single weekend, it’s tough out there. But for tonight, me and my team are definitely going to enjoy this, no doubt about it.
“We are just going to keep charging hard, train hard. It’s so tough out there, the top ten is going so fast, if you don’t get the start, it makes life a lot hard. But tonight I did and we were able to make it happen. This race felt long and short at the same time. Obviously lappers came into play, this was definitely one of the ruttiest tracks I have ever ridden, this was such an accomplishment, I have to let it settle in.
“I tried to control what I could, and I was just focusing right in the moment. First was focus on the start, we did that. Then is was hitting my marks and finding a groove. Chase was on me pretty close but I think he went down unfortunately so i had a little bit of a gap and I just clicked off lap after lap. The lap time was shorter and with how short the track was, I dunno how many laps we did, 26,27.28 but, that comes into play with the track being like an enduro track towards the end. I was just clipping laps off. Corner after corner, focusing on what was right there in the moment. Once we had seven minutes plus one to go on a track like that, it’s still a lot of laps but I was like okay, ‘we just click it off a little bit more,’ then it was five, then three plus one. I charged all the way to end, obviously Justin was coming. I got a little bit unlucky with lappers, I think I was able to pull out a tiny little bit of gap towards the end and was able to bring it home.
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