HRC Honda’s Ken Roczen had another weekend of bad luck at round four of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championships, finishing up in thirteenth place in the main.
When the main-event gate dropped, the German nailed the holeshot and led the field for four laps, after which Jason Anderson made an aggressive pass in the sand section, sending Roczen off the track and to the ground. The 22-year-old Sexton wasnāt far behind and trailed Anderson and eventual winner Eli Tomac to an eventual third-place finish in the 20-minute-plus-one-lap race. Meanwhile, Roczen remounted and salvaged a 13th-place result.
āOur weekend was a nightmare.” said Roczen. I’ve been struggling lately with my bike setup, just not really getting comfortable. It was a tough one for us but we did decent, when night time comes, it seems like we always get our stuff together.”
“I got second in the heat race, and we got the holeshot in the main event. Things were going pretty decent. I struggled with the whoops so that was definitely not my strong point, I almost went down there once, and the same lap I got taken down by [Jason] Anderson ā unfortunately left the door open. Probably not the right turn for him to put on a pass, but obviously it got me and I crashed pretty hard right there.”
“I had to make a stop after that to get all the sand out of my goggles, and our night was pretty much over after that, I could only salvage thirteenth place, but we never gave up. Weāre quite a few points down. Itās a bummer, but Iām looking forward to next weekend to get some consistency in and do some training and riding; I couldn’t really do that last week. Hopefully weāll head to Phoenix with a bit more confidence and more riding time under my belt.ā
