{"id":70917,"date":"2017-05-08T20:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T02:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tomac-finishes-second-in-thrilling-run-for-the-title\/"},"modified":"2017-05-09T02:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T02:33:35","slug":"tomac-finishes-second-in-thrilling-run-for-the-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tomac-finishes-second-in-thrilling-run-for-the-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomac finishes second in thrilling run for the title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ea73812d-4e0b-48d6-896b-a7833652db46&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1686\" height=\"944\" alt=\"Eli Tomac, of Cortez, Colorado, finished second in the 450SX Supercross in Las Vegas on Saturday, securing second place behind four-time champion Ryan Dungey.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Eli Tomac, of Cortez, Colorado, finished second in the 450SX Supercross in Las Vegas on Saturday, securing second place behind four-time champion Ryan Dungey.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">AMA Supercross<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Eli Tomac wrapped up a thrilling come-from-behind run for the AMA Supercross title season on Saturday night, finishing second in the Las Vegas 450SX main event and second in the 2017 championship series.<\/p>\n<p>Tomac, of Cortez, Colorado, finished behind race winner Jason Anderson. Tomac\u2019s rival, Ryan Dungey, finished fourth behind Joshua Grant, who is Tomac\u2019s teammate on Monster Energy Kawasaki.<\/p>\n<p>Tomac and Dungey dueled early on Saturday night, but Tomac gained the upper hand, and led 17 of the 19 laps. He gave up the lead to Husqvarna\u2019s Anderson in the final lap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fought as hard as we could,\u201d Tomac said after Saturday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>Dungey accumulated a total of 359 points to Tomac\u2019s 354 points to successfully defend his title. He only needed to finish fourth to secure his fourth championship.<\/p>\n<p>For the season, Tomac won nine races to Dungey\u2019s three and led 180 laps to Dungey\u2019s 97. However, Tomac\u2019s average finish for the season as 3.4, to Dungey\u2019s 2.5.<\/p>\n<p>Tomac became the fan favorite during his charge for the title, in which he won nine out of 12 races, beginning with a win in the fourth race Phoenix on Jan. 28 and ending with a comeback win in the 15th race, in Salt Lake City on April 22, that gave him his first series lead.<\/p>\n<p>Holding a three-point series lead over Dungey entering the 16th race, on April 29 in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Tomac faltered, crashing early, then stalling his Kawasaki late in the race. Dungey, meanwhile, came away with the win after KTM teammate Marvin Musquin appeared to let him pass and pick up three additional points, for a nine-point lead heading into the final race in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the controversial pass came up in during a pre-race news conference, and remained a sore spot with the Kawasaki team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the championship does come down to those three points, that\u2019s a bummer for everyone,\u201d said Tomac said.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night, Tomac looked to the future, saying in the post-race interview that he was excited about the past season and looking forward to next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to keep our heads up and keep swinging for it next year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>points separated Tomac from four-time champion Dungey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[162,29,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-eli-tomac","tag-newsletter","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70917","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=70917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70917"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}