By Luis Torres, Staff Writer
SEATTLE — A battle until the absolute bitter end that had Lumen Field shook with excitement.
Both Cooper Webb and Chase Sexton, hungry in still being in the 450SX championship fight, put on an absolute barn burner in front of 58,000 fans in Lumen Field. Any mistake could make a difference of either being on the top step of the podium or feeling dejected after the main event.
When the muddy dirt stopped kicking, it was Webb who ended up victorious by 0.592 seconds over Sexton, marking the seventh closest Supercross finish in the four-stroke era.
A key factor to Webb’s success in Seattle was being able to jump the wall efficiently near the sand section where he was able to click until taking off on the surface became a burden later on.
“It was an incredible challenging track. You know, I think we say it every weekend, but this truly was just brutal. Every lap we’re all making mistakes and it was really tough,” said Webb after scoring his 24th career win. “I had a good line there jumping the wall and it was working really well.
“Then the lip kind of went away and, uh, then it was a struggle city from there. I felt like I really struggled there after that. I just stayed clean, but we all made mistakes, but maybe I made the least mistakes and put myself in a good position for sure.”
Over the years, Seattle is known to be one of the most treacherous venues on the Supercross calendar, Saturday’s 450SX main event was no different. Thus, every rider have to be flawless to be in the mix which wasn’t easy and Webb admitted the performance wasn’t up to par in terms of entertainment value.
So much so, Webb described the main event being right up there as the most demanding race of his Supercross career because of how the conditions gradually changed throughout the day.
“80% of the time we come here is very difficult, but Saturday was probably all-time,” said Webb. “Ruddy just conditions like ever changing. You couldn’t even sometimes do the rhythms, right?
“We probably looked like amateurs out there with how gnarly it was. So it’s always tough, there’s gonna be rain and it was great that it wasn’t a full on mud mudfest, that was nice. It’s a different beast for sure.
“Especially like we did, at least for me, I did the hot lap and I’m like, ‘Man, there’s not a smooth line out here.’ It was gonna make for a tough main event. It surely…
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