Steve Cox | February 16, 2019
2019 Arlington Supercross Results: Up to this point, in the standard, single-race main events that Red Bull KTM’s Cooper Webb has won, he has done it from the front. He’s been out front, or close to it, from the very start of those races. But at round 7 of the 17-round Monster Energy/AMA Supercross Series in Arlington, Texas’ AT&T Stadium, Webb came from deep in the field to make a pass in the final few feet of the 20-minute-plus-one-lap main event to take his fourth win of the series and take over the points lead.
2019 Arlington Supercross Results
Cooper Webb (2) skims the whoops while Ken Roczen (other side of Webb) jumps through as they head to the checkered flag. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROB KOY
Honda’s Ken Roczen grabbed the holeshot to start the 450cc main event, but Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Eli Tomac took the lead from him right away and looked intent to sprint away, but Roczen was able to reel him back in and make it a race for the lead in the early laps. Webb started at the tail end of the top 10 and rounded lap one in seventh.
Roczen made an aggressive pass on Tomac to take the lead after the finish line to start lap five, and then Tomac went down a couple laps later when he lost the front end in a corner trying to keep up with Roczen’s pace. This handed second to Webb’s teammate Marvin Musquin. At this point, Webb was gifted fifth from Tomac, who remounted seventh.
While Musquin and Roczen hung around about two seconds apart at the front of the pack, Webb was still working on Rocky Mountain ATV/MC KTM’s Blake Baggett and Tomac’s teammate Joey Savatgy. When Baggett finally made a pass stick on Savatgy, Webb struck immediately and took Savatgy’s line away to steal fourth place. This was on lap 10 of what turned out to be a 25-lap race.
As for Tomac, he would go down again in a little while later and ended up finishing 12th, well off the pace.
2019 Arlington Supercross Results
Webb (2) snatched the win from Roczen (94) by 2/100ths of a second at the finish. Webb now leads the points as the series heads to Detroit. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROB KOY
It took Webb another three laps to find his way by Baggett for third, but then Webb’s consistent 50.8-second laptimes started eating into the top-two’s lead, as they were running laps in the ballpark of 51.2 to 51.8. Webb was polite about passing his teammate, but finally made it stick on lap 19 of 25, after which Musquin dropped off the pace significantly. Webb was searching for a place to go by Roczen and almost made it stick a couple times, but Roczen kept fighting back until the last lap, through the whoops, where Roczen was taking the preferred center line that racers could jump through. Webb switched to a line to the left of that and skimmed the whoops, then cut across the final turn to make contact with Roczen, slowing the Honda racer just enough to defeat him by 2/100ths of a second at the line to take his fourth win of the year, and the series points lead.
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Austin Forkner had his second dominant day in a row at the Arlington Supercross, leading every lap on his way to the win and an 8-point lead as the series heads to Detroit. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROB KOY
In the 250cc East, it’s the Austin Forkner show. The Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki racer had his second “perfect weekend” in a row in Arlington, qualifying first during the daytime program, then winning his heat race qualifying him first for the main event, then leading every lap of the main event on his way to the checkered flag. It’s been 10 years since another racer has done that in the 250cc class, and it was another Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki racer: Jake Weimer.
Forkner had some pressure early in the main from GEICO Honda’s Chase Sexton, but he went down just past the halfway point, handing the spot to TLD/Red Bull KTM’s Jordon Smith. Smith also went down and handed second to Monster Energy/Yamalube/Star Racing Yamaha’s Justin Cooper. That was the order at the finish, with Forkner taking the win over Cooper, then Sexton recovering for third with a few seconds to spare over Smith, who just held off Forkner’s teammate Martin Davalos and Cooper’s teammate Mitchell Oldenburg at the finish.
The series now heads to Ford Field in Detroit for round eight next Saturday night.
2019 Arlington Supercross Results
2019 Arlington Supercross Results
2019 Arlington Supercross Results
2019 Arlington Supercross Results
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