2020 Tampa Supercross Results

Steve Cox | February 15, 2020

At round seven of the 2020 Monster Energy/AMA Supercross Series, in Tampa, Florida, Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Eli Tomac had a big night, winning his third main event of the year (and 30th of his career, extending a record he’d rather relinquish) and taking over the championship points lead from Honda HRC’s Ken Roczen. And in the 250SX East opener, Monster Energy/Yamalube/Star Racing Yamaha’s Shane McElrath proved he made the right move switching to the Yamaha team from the TLD/Red Bull KTM team he’d been on for years.

2020 Tampa Supercross Results — **Eli Tomac took his third win of 2020, and the 30th of his career, at the Tampa Supercross.** PHOTO: ROB KOY

Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Adam Cianciarulo got out to the early lead in the Tampa 450cc main event and quickly began to put time on the field, led by Smartop/Motoconcepts/Bullfrog Spas’ Vince Friese. Friese had Cianciarulo’s teammate Tomac on his heels, followed by Friese’s teammate Malcolm Stewart, Red Bull KTM’s defending series champ Cooper Webb, Friese’s other teammate Justin Hill, Roczen, Rockstar Energy Husqvarna’s Dean Wilson, Monster Energy Yamaha’s Aaron Plessinger, JGR/Yoshimura/Suzuki Factory Racing’s Broc Tickle and the rest of the field. Round-one winner Justin Barcia started outside the top 15 on his Monster Energy Yamaha YZ450F.

Tomac was quickly by Friese, but his teammate Cianciarulo already had over 3 seconds on him, so Tomac began to slowly eat into Cianciarulo’s lead until he utilized an inside/outside move through the track’s split-sand lane to take over the lead just before the halfway point of the race. Seeing that Tomac was using that side of the sand to make up a bunch of time on him, Cianciarulo tried to follow Tomac through on the following lap, only to lose a ton of time. From there, Tomac was gone.

Things were exasperated only a few laps later when Cianciarulo went down in the whoops and then got his motorcycle hung up, off the track, on track markers. Cianciarulo got back going in 10th, handing second on the track to Webb, who had been dragging Roczen with him toward the front for most of the race. Roczen himself overcame a fall earlier in the race, when he washed out the front end after just having passed Stewart for third. Roczen passed Stewart back a few laps later to take the final podium spot.

Stewart struggled in the final few laps, getting passed by his teammate Hill, Barcia, Wilson and Wilson’s teammate Jason Anderson, but got Anderson back in the last corner after shoving Anderson off the track to steal 7th place back at the finish.

Besides the ride put in by Tomac, the ride of the night had to go to Monster Energy Yamaha’s Barcia, who came from outside the top 15 to grab fourth place on the last lap from Hill, who finished fifth.

Tomac now leads the points standings for the first time this year, with 4 points in-hand over Roczen as the series heads to its second Triple Crown event of the year this coming Saturday night in Arlington, Texas. If Tomac can manage to hang on to the points lead through the series finale in Salt Lake City, Utah, this May, Tomac will relinquish a current record he holds: The most wins by a racer who has never won the championship. If he manages to pull it off this year, that record will return to the Beast from the East, Damon Bradshaw.

In the 250SX East series opener, Shane McElrath qualified second during the day and then grabbed the main-event holeshot over Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki’s Jordon Smith, GEICO Honda’s Jeremy Martin, Martin’s teammate (and defending 250SX East champ) Chase Sexton, Martin’s other teammate, rookie Jo Shimoda, and the rest of the field. Although Martin was quick to get around Smith and move into second, McElrath was already checking out. McElrath led all 19 laps while Martin ended up losing one spot to his teammate Sexton before the checkered flag.

For Martin, a podium finish in his first serious race back after over 18 months of recovery from a broken back suffered in 2018, was like a win.

Martin held off former teammate RJ Hampshire (Rockstar Energy Husqvarna) late in the race, only for Hampshire to go down and promote the Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki duo of Garrett Marchbanks and Jordon Smith to the top-five. Hampshire was sixth.

With one race under their belts, the 250SX East field heads to a Triple Crown event next weekend in Arlington, Texas, which will give all of them more much-needed time behind a starting gate in the three-main-event format.

450SX Main Event:

1.	Eli Tomac	Kaw
2.	Cooper Webb	KTM
3.	Ken Roczen	Hon
4.	Justin Barcia	Yam
5.	Justin Hill	Hon
6.	Dean Wilson	Hus
7.	Malcolm Stewart	Hon
8.	Jason Anderson	Hus
9.	Adam Cianciarulo	Kaw
10.	Justin Brayton	Hon
11.	Zach Osborne	Hus
12.	Broc Tickle	Suz
13.	Vince Friese	Hon
14.	Martin Davalos	KTM
15.	Tyler Bowers	Kaw
16.	Aaron Plessinger	Yam
17.	Kyle Chisholm	Yam
18.	Kyle Cunningham	Suz
19.	Chad Reed	Hon
20.	Ryan Breece	Suz
21.	Adam Enticknap	Suz
22.	Blake Baggett	KTM

250SX East Main Event:

1.	Shane McElrath	Yam
2.	Chase Sexton	Hon
3.	Jeremy Martin	Hon
4.	Garrett Marchbanks	Kaw
5.	Jordon Smith	Kaw
6.	RJ Hampshire	Hus
7.	Kyle Peters	Hon
8.	Joey Crown	Yam
9.	Jimmy Decotis	Suz
10.	Jo Shimoda	Hon
11.	Jace Owen	Hon
12.	Josh Hill	Yam
13.	Cedric Soubeyras	Hus
14.	Nick Gaines	Yam
15.	John Short	Hon
16.	Jerry Robin	Hon
17.	Jordan Bailey	Hon
18.	Hunter Sayles	KTM
19.	Enzo Lopes	Yam
20.	Justin Starling	Hon
21.	Isaac Teasdale	Suz
22.	Curren Thurman	KTM

450SX Points Standings:

1.	Eli Tomac	155/3 wins
2.	Ken Roczen	151/2 wins
3.	Cooper Webb	144/1 win
4.	Justin Barcia	135/1 win
5.	Adam Cianciarulo	127
6.	Jason Anderson	120
7.	Malcolm Stewart	106
8.	Justin Brayton	102
9.	Justin Hill	93
10.	Blake Baggett	91
11.	Zach Osborne	87
12.	Dean Wilson	86
13.	Aaron Plessinger	77
14.	Vince Friese	70
15.	Martin Davalos	59
16.	Tyler Bowers	42
17.	Justin Bogle	24
18.	Kyle Chisholm	21
19.	Chad Reed	21
20.	Alex Ray	19

250SX East Points Standings:

1.	Shane McElrath	26/1 win
2.	Chase Sexton	23
3.	Jeremy Martin	21
4.	Garrett Marchbanks	19
5.	Jordon Smith	18
6.	RJ Hampshire	17
7.	Kyle Peters	16
8.	Joey Crown	15
9.	Jimmy Decotis	14
10.	Jo Shimoda	13
11.	Jace Owen	12
12.	Josh Hill	11
13.	Cedric Soubeyras	10
14.	Nick Gaines	9
15.	John Short	8
16.	Jerry Robin	7
17.	Jordan Bailey	6
18.	Hunter Sayles	5
19.	Enzo Lopes	4
20.	Justin Starling	3

Tampa Supercross Qualifying

This is sounding like a broken record now, but you can’t blame us! At round 7 of the 2020 Monster Energy/AMA Supercross Series, in Tampa, Florida, Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Adam Cianciarulo topped qualifying for the 7th week in a row, and his teammate, Eli Tomac, was second, for the 7th week in a row.

But there was one change: Since the Tampa round marks the first round of the 250SX East Series, Dylan Ferrandis did not top 250SX qualifying. Instead, that honor went to two-time 250MX National Champion Jeremy Martin on his GEICO Honda, in his first supercross race since 2018 (following a badly broken back during that year’s AMA MX Nationals).

In the 450SX class, Cianciarulo once again just edged out his teammate Tomac by just over 1/10th of a second, but the top 7 in qualifying were all within a second of Cianciarulo’s time out front, including last week’s winner, Red Bull KTM’s defending 450SX champ Cooper Webb.

Broc Tickle was another noteworthy qualifier in Tampa, in his first race back since he was put on a two-year suspension by WADA. He’s racing for the JGR/Yoshimura/Suzuki Factory Racing team for the rest of the 2020 Supercross Series. Mountain Motorsports/cbdMD Honda’s Chad Reed qualified a fitting 22nd.

In the 250SX East class, GEICO Honda’s Jeremy Martin topped the charts in front of Monster Energy/Yamalube/Star Racing Yamaha’s Shane McElrath, Martin’s defending East champ Chase Sexton, Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki’s Garrett Marchbanks, and Rockstar Energy Husqvarna’s RJ Hampshire.

Josh Hill’s return to racing saw him qualify a strong ninth on his privateer Yamaha. He might surprise some people.

Racing gets going tonight at 7pm Eastern Time.

450SX Qualifying:

1.	Adam Cianciarulo	Kaw	47.704
2.	Eli Tomac	Kaw	47.823
3.	Ken Roczen	Hon	48.052
4.	Cooper Webb	KTM	48.055
5.	Jason Anderson	Hus	48.373
6.	Malcolm Stewart	Hon	48.436
7.	Blake Baggett	KTM	48.698
8.	Dean Wilson	Hus	48.774
9.	Zach Osborne	Hus	48.839
10.	Justin Brayton	Hon	48.931
11.	Martin Davalos	KTM	49.099
12.	Justin Hill	Hon	49.144
13.	Justin Barcia	Yam	49.146
14.	Aaron Plessinger	Yam	49.422
15.	Broc Tickle	Suz	49.489
16.	Tyler Bowers	Kaw	49.689
17.	Benny Bloss	Yam	49.793
18.	Vince Friese	Hon	49.936
19.	Kyle Chisholm	Yam	50.280
20.	Kyle Cunningham	Yam	50.377
21.	Alex Ray	Kaw	50.455
22.	Chad Reed	Hon	50.606

250SX East Qualifying:

1.	Jeremy Martin	Hon	48.974
2.	Shane McElrath	Yam	49.004
3.	Chase Sexton	Hon	49.101
4.	Garrett Marchbanks	Kaw	49.315
5.	RJ Hampshire	Hus	49.331
6.	Jordon Smith	Kaw	49.888
7.	Jo Shimoda	Hon	50.041
8.	Nick Gaines	Yam	50.320
9.	Josh Hill	Yam	50.684
10.	Kyle Peters	Hon	50.834
11.	Joey Crown	Yam	50.914
12.	John Short	Hon	51.107
13.	Jace Owen	Hon	51.114
14.	Enzo Lopes	Yam	51.128
15.	Jordan Bailey	Hon	51.312
16.	Justin Starling	Hon	51.415
17.	Cedric Soubeyras	Hus	51.646
18.	Isaac Teasdale	Suz	51.752
19.	Jalek Swoll	Hus	51.842
20.	Jerry Robin	Hon	51.844

2020 Monster Energy AMA Supercross Schedule

Round 1	January 4	Anaheim, California
Round 2	January 11	St. Louis, Missouri
Round 3	January 18	Anaheim, California
Round 4	January 25	Glendale, Arizona
Round 5	February 1	Oakland, California
Round 6	February 8	San Diego, California
Round 7	February 15	Tampa, Florida
Round 8	February 22	Arlington (Dallas), Texas
Round 9	February 29	Atlanta, Georgia
Round 10	March 7	Daytona, Florida
Round 11	March 14	Indianapolis, Indiana
Round 12	March 21	Detroit, Michigan
Round 13	March 28	Seattle, Washington
Round 14	April 4	Denver, Colorado
Round 15	April 18	Foxborough, Massachusetts
Round 16	April 25	Las Vegas, Nevada
Round 17	May 2	Salt Lake City, Utah

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