Fastest 450 rookie of the night award goes to Colt Nichols, who notched sixth on the night. The Honda HRC rider got out of the gate well, but quickly got shuffled back a handful of positions before steadying himself. Afterward he told us just jitters definitely played a roll. But still, sixth place in a 450SX main is great, especially when it’s your first race!

If there were two things most riders seemed to agree on it was the difficulty of the track and the exceptional roar of the crowd.

“The track was probably top three on gnarliest I’ve ever ridden,” Tomac said. “The transitions there, if you weren’t absolutely perfect you wouldn’t get it. I honestly thought I had thrown it away and I would be lucky to get a podium. But the track, I guess, was so gnarly there was time to make up and time to be made. The triple-triple-triple was tough, the first ramp had a massive pothole leading up to the ramp. That was unbelievable. We started inside and then we had to just deal with it. When the dirt is like that it’s really easy to go short or long on those jumps. The crowd, you hear it and there’s nothing you can do about it except just focus. It’s part of supercross and that’s what makes it so cool.”

“For me it’s awhile since I’ve heard it this loud,” Webb added. “Maybe that’s because I haven’t been up there.”