Morning Espresso: Interesting Quotes from Tomac; Tough Day for Troy’s Squad; Anstie Protested? and Raha’s Tribute to Ken Block

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Interesting Quotes from Tomac

What a performance from Eli Tomac on Saturday to capture his third win on the season. Eli wasn’t at his best, yet he still dug deep to capture the win over Chase Sexton. After the race, Tomac had some very honest thoughts about the night.

“That was just a tough race, and honestly I was pretty beat down after that heat race,” said Tomac. “I was just losing a little bit of speed everywhere. I just rode better, straight up, in the main. Felt better. Just kept my head down and rode better. This is a great way to bounce back from last week’s crash.” 

“The middle of the week, for one I couldn’t believe I was fine!” said Tomac. “On Tuesday I was riding totally normal. But on Friday we were riding press day here, and there was a 90 degree turn after the tunnel, and it had the three onto the table again. To be straight up, I hit the 90 and went to go three on and I had some PTSD there! Jumped a little extra far to the right. Crept into my head a little bit, same kind of jump. Hey, you just have to push on and get it out of my head.”

Check out the full press conference here:

Tough Look for Troy’s Squad

Troy Dog has a “squad” or something. Well, Houston was not good on the doggies. While Justin Starling made his fourth consecutive main to begin the season and finished a respectable 16th, his hand is having a small child. Hopefully this doesn’t effect Starling because he is having a great start to the year.

Meanwhile, Hawaii’s own, Grant Harlan, had a big crash in his heat and was unable to line up for the LCQ, much to the chagrin of fantasy owners like myself. Hey, its just a game and we are all glad Grant is okay. At least that is what I’m telling myself as I sit in dead last.

Colby Raha Honors the Late Ken Block

Freerider Colby Raha took to the streets of San Fran to honor the late Ken Block. RIP, Ken.

Max Anstie Protested?

After a second place finish at the 250SX East Region season opener in Houston, apparently Max Anstie was protested by another team, this according to Vital MX’s Lewis Phillips.

In a post on the Vital MX message boards, team owner Yarrive Konsky stated:

“We didn’t get a protest against us, we made a mistake not taking our bike to the holding bay straight away post race. All top three place getters are meant to. Its our fault as we were caught up in the celebrations.”

Well, nothing came of it, but still…

Main image: Yamaha

Written by Slaw Dog

Just a dog trying to find my special bun.

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