Another thing to think about is how Tomac is usually a guy that catches fire later in the season. Yes, he has had multiple years with an early race win, but usually it takes a few rounds for him to get on a roll. And his win streaks in the past have come in the middle to late rounds. But so far in 2026, Tomac seems to be ready to go. Could he go on an early run this go round? He looks ready, but the deep 450SX field might not allow it. Still, round one was about an ideal start as it could be, all things considered.<\/p>\n
Tomac attributed that to the two rounds he did as a Wild Card (no championship points counting) in the FIM World Supercross Championship. In sports they say nothing can replicate a game, or in this sport, a race. Tomac agrees.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never know. You never know,\u201d he said. \u201cYou just don\u2019t know until you get out here and race everyone straight up. So, of course, we had two pre-season races there with WSX, had one good one, one bad one and you do have some questions. And we\u2019ve been testing all over the place\u2014California to Florida, Colorado, Arizona. So, been all over, kind of race all over, so we\u2019ve put ourselves to the test finding [different] conditions. I knew we\u2019d been near the front, but the win, you just don\u2019t know \u2018til we get out here and that main event gate drops.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a huge deal to race,\u201d he added on those WSX gate drops. \u201cWe do these team scrimmages, but you still don\u2019t know until you get a track that breaks down like that tonight. So, that\u2019s where, racing you cannot replicate it basically, no matter what. We try to get as close as we can, we would do some team scrimmages races, but you don\u2019t know until your adrenaline\u2019s going and basically everything is on the line at that point and that\u2019s where you really find out what works and what doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tomac commented on leading the race essentially wire-to-wire after a quick, first-lap pass on his teammate Jorge Prado<\/a>. Ken Roczen<\/a> kept him honest all race, but Tomac had a gap of several seconds the entire race.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, those races are tough, leading from basically the get-go,\u201d he said. \u201cOf course, I had to make one pass there after the restart. But like focusing for those full 20 minutes, being in the lead the whole time, those are some of the toughest races. Even though it may look like there\u2019s not much going on, it definitely becomes a mind game of focus and watching the guy behind you, marking where they are at\u2014that being Kenny. And I felt like we were basically neck and neck\u2026 He wasn\u2019t right on me, but he was keeping me very honest the whole time. So, like I said, wasn\u2019t much going on to it but it was definitely a mind game.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOther than that, motorcycle was probably best it\u2019s been all day and that was in the main event,\u201d he continued. \u201cMade one small change between the heat race and the main and went the right direction, and, hey, this is the right way to start.\u201d<\/p>\n The two-time 450SX Champion said the small change was suspension related, both fork and spring. He also noted another big change on his motorcycle: he went away from his scoop tire! He has been adamant that the scoop tire remain on his bike over a more traditional rear tire but said after the race he went away from the tire in order to take steps forward.<\/p>\n \u201cThe tire was the big thing,\u201d he said. \u201cOne of the biggest changes for me. I\u2019ve been very locked in with that scoop tire, for the most part, but sometimes you got to make changes to get better. And for me, that worked. But it\u2019s also a combination of working on the bike as a whole.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another thing to think about is how Tomac is usually a guy that catches fire later in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-131905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}