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On the weekend that motorcycle racing returned, Eli Tomac picked up where he left off nearly three months ago in Daytona, with a win and a narrow points lead as he tries to shake the distinction of being the winningest rider who has not won a Monster Energy Supercross championship.
The race, televised on NBC but run in a Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City that was empty of fans, challenged riders with a short track with soil that was hard and slick and quickly dried out under the bright sun at high altitude. The 450SX main event lasted 29 laps and the leaders began hitting lapped traffic as early as lap 11. The conditions seemed to suit Tomac, who is from neighboring Colorado, just fine. Everyone in the field had better get used to it, since six more Supercross races will take place in the same location, every Wednesday and Sunday, in rapid-fire fashion to finish the season with the original number of 17 races.
| 450SX standings | |
|---|---|
| Eli Tomac | 252 |
| Ken Roczen | 244 |
| Cooper Webb | 220 |
| Justin Barcia | 210 |
| Jason Anderson | 189 |
The three riders with a realistic chance of winning the 450SX class raced together for nearly the entire race, but only Monster Energy Kawasaki's Tomac came away with what he needed, gaining the maximum points and building his points lead over Team Honda HRC's Ken Roczen to eight from three. Red Bull KTM Factory Racing's Cooper Webb, the defending champion, finished second, but since he was 29 points behind Tomac going into the race, he needs to win races to have a shot at keeping his number-one plate. By finishing third, Roczen did what he needed to avoid doing: Losing even more points to Tomac by letting both Tomac and Webb finish ahead of him.
At least the next race, Wednesday evening, will not take place in the early afternoon. Like a "normal" Supercross, it will be run at night. There still won't be any of the usual features of Supercross, from flames shooting into the air to music thumping and lasers flashing and — most of all — certainly no fans screaming, to get riders pumped up. But at least maybe the track won't dry out so badly.
250SX East
| 250XS standings | |
|---|---|
| Chase Sexton | 121 |
| Shane McElrath | 114 |
| Garrett Marchbanks | 100 |
| Jeremy Martin | 84 |
| R.J. Hampshire | 80 |
In the 250SX East class, the top three in points also finished on the podium in Salt Lake City. Shane McElrath of the Troy Lee Designs/Red Bull/KTM team won to cut three points off the lead held by defending champion Chase Sexton of the GEICO Honda team and Garrett Marchbanks finished third.
Tests for the coronavirus, checking people for fever and limiting the number of people allowed in the stadium to 400 were among the precautions the series organizers took to allow racing to resume despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Supercross resumed the same weekend that the MotoAmerica roadracing series also started its season at Road America, with a weekend of racing with no fans at the track. American Flat Track plans to start the dirt-track season July 17 and 18 at Volusia Speedway in Florida but is planning to allow fans to attend.
