Roczen retains red plate ahead of AMA Supercross season finale

Ken Roczen retains the red plate ahead of the AMA Supercross season finale in Salt Lake City, after finishing second in Denver at the weekend.

 

Roczen headed into the penultimate rounded of the season with the points lead and qualified quickest. A tough start to his heat race saw him round turn one in eighth, before he climbed to third place by the chequered flag.

In the main event Roczen was boxed in off the start, and crossed the holeshot stripe in sixth place. However, after a series of early race overtakes he climbed to second place within a handful of laps.

 

Unfortunately the race leader had pulled away. Instead of risking it all to chase him down, the Progressive Insurance Suzuki rider cemented his position in second place, pulling a five second gap on the battle for third to take the red plate into the final round of the season.

 

He said, "Overall, we had a really good day. From Q2 we had P1 and went first gate pick into the night show. I had just an alright heat race; it was a third place, but I was really trying to figure out the track. I feel like we rode the best in the main event when it really counted. I wasn't fast enough to get with leader, but I got into second place and just kind of maintained.

 

"Now we're one point ahead and it's really fun to see how this unfolds. Overall, I would say we had a really good day with a second place and we're going into the last round happy and stoked to be in this position and we're going to give this our best shot."