Eli Tomac is off to a great start in the 2023 AMA Supercross season. Anaheim got the championship kick off with a major race last saturday night; a race that Tomac ended up winning, sharing the podium with Cooper Webb and Chase Sexton.
With this win, Tomac ended a streak of victories in the first round of the championship that had lasted since 2014. The last time the rider won a starting round dates back to 2013 when Tomac was still competing in 250SX in the West region.
'I guess I just needed experience', Tomac joked after the victory then adding, as quoted on RacerX:
- This is my tenth round one, apparently it took ten times to finally figure out how to get to it right at round one! Overall, a wild race. Early battle with Justin [Barcia] there, then I got too far off the back of the seat of my bike and crashed on that tunnel there. Luckily everything on my bike was straight.