{"id":107261,"date":"2016-01-11T18:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T01:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tomac-finishes-fourth-in-first-race-after-injuries\/"},"modified":"2016-01-11T18:26:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T01:26:20","slug":"tomac-finishes-fourth-in-first-race-after-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tomac-finishes-fourth-in-first-race-after-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomac finishes fourth in first race after injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:73a0da4a-71b1-46be-b2a1-50a8271075ab --><\/p>\n<p>Eli Tomac kicked off the 2016 Monster Energy AMA Supercross series with a fourth-place finish in the 450SX Class on Saturday at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the 23-year-old Cortez native won three AMA Supercross races and finished runner-up in the point\u2019s standings, but he then missed much of the motocross season after suffering shoulder injuries in an accident at Thunder Valley Motocross Park in Englewood in late May.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s Supercross was Tomac\u2019s first race after recovering from the injuries, and it was also his initial contest as a member of Monster Energy Kawasaki, whom he announced in October that he had signed with for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Anderson of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, won the race for Rockstar Energy Husqvarna, but Tomac\u2019s fourth-place finish has him just seven points behind the leader in the season point\u2019s standings, with the next race scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 16 at Petco Park in San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth-place finish in season-opener<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6328,6313],"tags":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-107261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-2-more-sports","category-sports-2","tag-cortez"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107261"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=107261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}