Eli Tomac tweets about lappers and wanting works bikes!

After his comments in lappers in the press following nearly having his night ended by Vince Friese, Tomac has added more with a rare tweet!

In the press conference, Tomac argued that there should only be 15 riders in the main event on short lap time main events and 30 on the gate outdoors, saying: “I was able to get to second at one point and then got balled up by lappers and paid the price for it. It was frustrating that way and then I almost got taken out in the in the second moto by lappers. It’s bad I think if the track sub 50 seconds, make it a 15 man gate. I mean, there, they’re just riders that are way off the pace of the top lead group and if the promoter wants to potentially lose championship contenders, I mean, let’s keep it the way it is, but yeah, frustrating but got out of here healthy and clean and second is what we had.”

“Like what Hunter said it’s repeat offenders It’s the same people doing the same thing over and over again. They don’t get a big enough penalty for it. It’s just it’s kind of outrageous. It’s frustrating for us. Yeah, I mean these guys are six/seven seconds a lap slower  – maybe even more and they’re out there with this. So really they’re just a hazard, I don’t know for the exact penalty. I think it’s just less riders on the gate and I actually think motocross should be 30 guys on the gate. I think both series has an issue with with too many bikes on the track and then especially once it gets to a short lap time.”

See the incident with Friese here:

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Tomac then responded to some of the chatter he has been reading with a long tweet saying he would love works bikes back!

Tomac tweeted: “People saying we wouldn’t deal with lappers with if we were all on stock bikes. It’s quite the opposite of the truth. The 450 class is actually easier to be competitive in its current state compared to the 250 class. Want to be competitive throughout a whole season with a do it your self effort on a 250, going against teams with endless R&D squeezing maximum power out of the small displacement. Good luck.

“On top of keeping engines and race bikes in safe hourly rotation. There’s not a whole lot of light at the end of that tunnel without a blank check. IMO 450 class needs to be non production based, with the baddest works bikes on planet earth.

“The beautiful thing about Supercross and Motocross is that skill and hard work will always prevail. And yes that would still shine with works bikes.

“Or maybe we just keep everything the way it is, because our sport is pretty sweet.”