450 QUALIFYING RESULTS | 2021 ARLINGTON SUPERCROSS 2

The premier class is back under the lights of AT&T Stadium for the eleventh round of the 2021 Monster Energy Supercross season. This will be their second of three rounds in Arlington as the riders and teams take up residency in the Lone Star State. While it was a short weekend for the riders to relax, the mechanics were hard at work preparing the race bikes for the next round in a very short amount of time. It is all hands on deck at the Honda and KTM rigs as the championship has gained a new points leader, Cooper Webb, Ken struggled the weekend prior in both the Heat Race and Main Event, specifically in the starts. While we saw this happen to Justin Cooper as well, it’s exciting to see the two go back and forth in the racing. So get your fantasy picks ready as we examine the fastest lap times in AT&T Stadium.

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Photos by Travis Fant

450 OVERALL QUALIFYING RESULTS

Dylan Ferrandis qualified in eighth in the first round of qualifying.

Both Cooper Webb and Ken Roczen ran up front of the pack to get a clear track when the second round of qualifying took off. However, it was Eli Tomac who set the fastest lap right away with Ken Roczen and Cooper Webb sitting just behind. After a handful of laps, GasGas’s Justin Barcia jumped to the top beating out Eli Tomac for the first place position. Webb quickly took back the first place spot and Dylan Ferrandis went down hard in one of the rhythm sections. Eli Tomac quickly jumped back up to the top spot with two minutes remaining, sitting in the 50 second lap time.

POS.	#	NAME		BEST TIME
1	1	Eli Tomac		50.903
2	51	Justin Barcia		51.186
3	2	Cooper Webb		51.201
4	94	Ken Roczen		51.434
5	21	Jason Anderson		51.521
6	23	Chase Sexton		51.996
7	17	Joey Savatgy		52.155
8	14	Dylan Ferrandis		52.433
9	27	Malcolm Stewart		52.583
10	15	Dean Wilson		52.638
11	40	Vince Friese		52.670
12	37	Benny Bloss		52.701
13	36	Martin Davalos		52.780
14	10	Justin Brayton		52.944
15	20	Broc Tickle		52.946
16	7	Aaron Plessinger		53.009
17	83	Alex Ray		53.526
18	19	Justin Bogle		53.628
19	34	Max Anstie		53.721
20	11	Kyle Chisholm		53.756
21	81	Justin Starling		53.807
22	114	Nick Schmidt		54.066
23	519	Joshua Cartwright		54.251
24	44	Tyler Bowers		54.570
25	88	Logan Karnow		54.583
26	309	Jeremy Smith		54.732
27	280	Cade Clason		54.764
28	28	Brandon Hartranft		54.775
29	184	Scott Champion		54.802
30	848	Joan Cros		54.902
31	124	Lane Shaw		54.904
32	193	Hunter Schlosser		55.022
33	85	Kevin Moranz		55.094
34	87	Curren Thurman		55.195
35	606	Ronnie Stewart		55.351
36	447	Deven Raper		55.384
37	330	Aj Catanzaro		55.419
38	421	Vann Martin		55.490
39	976	Joshua Greco		55.523
40	70	Henry Miller		55.589

TOP 40 QUALIFY FOR NIGHT SHOW 

41	637	Bobby Piazza		55.708
42	597	Mason Kerr		55.736
43	141	Richard Taylor		55.861
44	43	Fredrik Noren		55.915
45	501	Scotty Wennerstrom		55.933
46	282	Theodore Pauli		56.662
47	996	Preston Taylor		56.703
48	216	Devin Harriman		57.015
49	512	Austin Cozadd		57.689

After struggling on Saturday and finishing 6th place, Ken Roczen said this: “My Saturday started off pretty good. We felt good in qualifying practices and went into the night show with a good start. I was on the outside of [Dean] Wilson, and with the 90 degree angle, got pushed wide a bit to fourth. I made a pass into third and tried to get by Dean a couple of times, but made a mistake trying to triple in. I didn’t make it and ended up going down, dropping back to seventh, which unfortunately gave me a bad gate pick for the main event. The rut was really messed up, so that start wasn’t good in the main at all. I wasn’t moving forward at all in the main, struggled to make some passes and only ended up coming in sixth. It wasn’t the result that we wanted, but we come back on Tuesday; we’ll let go of this race and come back and try again. The good thing is that this wasn’t the final round, by any means. We have a lot of racing left and plenty of time to redeem ourselves. For Tuesday, we want a bit of revenge and to try to start up front so I can ride with the front runners and see what position we can put ourselves in.”

Cooper Webb had a big crash in the whoops during the first qualifying session. But he rebounded and rode strong in the second qualifying session.

Justin Barcia looked comfortable today in qualifying. 

450 GROUP A FIRST QUALIFYING SESSION

Jason Anderson is done playing games as we’ve seen the 21 play more aggressively on the track.

After struggling on Saturday, Eli Tomac has turned his momentum around for the Tuesday night race. So far he was the fastest in the free practice session and fastest in the first 450 qualifying session. Eli Tomac said that he liked the track today and he’s enjoying it right now. He said he made a change to the bike after the race on Saturday and he’s very happy with it. He also said that the track is loose and slick.

POS.	#	RIDER	BEST TIME
1	1	Eli Tomac	51.952
2	2	Cooper Webb	52.080
3	23	Chase Sexton	52.084
4	94	Ken Roczen	52.147
5	21	Jason Anderson	52.387
6	17	Joey Savatgy	52.545
7	51	Justin Barcia	52.568
8	14	Dylan Ferrandis	52.570
9	37	Benny Bloss	52.701
10	27	Malcolm Stewart	52.916
11	15	Dean Wilson	53.014
12	40	Vince Friese	53.366
13	7	Aaron Plessinger	53.670
14	34	Max Anstie	53.721
15	19	Justin Bogle	53.740
16	20	Broc Tickle	53.776
17	36	Martin Davalos	53.779
18	10	Justin Brayton	53.822
19	11	Kyle Chisholm	54.730
20	28	Brandon Hartranft	55.143
21	280	Cade Clason	55.745

 

Eli Tomac underperformed at the last round. Will we see similar results again or will the 2020 champ put the pedal to the metal and win another Main Event in the 2021 season?

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