Tomac Crash

Eli Tomac did not have the main event he wanted at the Glendale Supercross. The Red Bull KTM rider came into the fifth round of Monster Energy AMA Supercross as the championship leader and finished second in overall qualifying to his teammate Jorge Prado before they both pulled massive starts and dominated their respect heat races (Tomac in heat one, Prado in heat two).

Unfortunately, Tomac did not get the jump he got in the heat race when the gates dropped on the main event. Then, he got collected when Christian Craig went down in the first turn and it collected Tomac and Colt Nichols, too. All three riders got up under their own power, with Nichols and Craig getting their bikes as quickly as possible. Tomac was slow to get up and not in a rush to get back to his bike, causing some alarm. However, Tomac did eventually get going, starting dead last. He was not fully up to speed for a few laps and he eventually caught 21st place, Josh Cartwright at the time, and started to make passes forward. Towards the middle half of the race, Tomac was running some of the fastest lap times of the race, although outside of the top ten still. He came through the checkered flag 12th.

Afterwards, he was interviewed by trackside reporter Will Christien, where he said he was not injured. Tomac told Christien the following:

“Yeah, just put myself in a position where bad things can happen, of course. So, start… got a little bit pinched, and then I got taken out by Craig. And so, I don't know what happened, before that or why he crashed or if he caused it. All I know is Craig hit me, and I was done. So, it took me a little while to get warmed up again to kinda get my body loosened up and going, and, yeah, that's what I had, to get back to 12th. And good thing is we're not too far down, and we're fine, so it tough to do some digging now.”