
After almost five months, seventeen races in eighteen weeks and a grand total of 425 points on offer, Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Eli Tomac lost out on the 2017 AMA Supercross championship by just 5 to Ryan Dungey at a tense season finale at the Sam Boyd Stadium and watched by a capacity 30,000 crowd in Las Vegas.
Heroics that led to nine victories this term and a thrilling comeback ride at Salt Lake City in April, the red plate and the reduction of a deficit nearing 30 points in the standings was heartbreakingly undone by two mistakes in New Jersey last week that left the twenty-three year old staring at a gap of 9 to Dungey; the reigning champ having won four times in the past at the Sam Boyd and having missed a Supercross podium only five times in three seasons.