St. Louis Supercross Press Day and Gallery
The twelfth round of Monster Energy Supercross started today with Press Day activities at the Dome at Americas Center in St Louis, Missouri. Tomorrows racing with be packed with action with this round being a triple crown that also includes Supercross Futures and KTM Juniors. Fans are going to have non stop action all day and the racing surface looks great like every expects for St. Louis dirt.
Todays activities were comprised on a 30-45 minute interview session where riders were available to the media. The same riders then rode two rounds of practice sessions for the media to get some photos and see how the track is going to run and how the conditions might breakdown tomorrow. The session included the following athletes along with others: Jason Anderson, Adam Cianciarulo, Levi Kitchen, Eli Tomac, Cooper Webb, Justin Cooper, Jordon Smith, Nate Thrasher, Chase Sexton, Julien Beaumer, Vince Friese, Carson Mumford, Mitchell Oldenburg, Fredrik Noren, Josh Cartwright, Theodore “Bubba” Pauli, Benny Bloss, Colt Nichols, Garrett Marchbanks, Phil Nicoletti, Ken Roczen, Shane McElrath, Kyle Chisholm, Jett Lawrence, Hunter Lawrence, Jo Shimoda.
A few notables from todays session was that on the 450SX group Eli Tomac and Chase Sexton looked really good today. Eli was looking like the old Eli today. Was looking smooth and effortless type of fast. Chase continues to look improved on the KTM as he gets more comfortable and healthier with his hand. In the 250 west group the standouts in our eyes were Levi Kitchen, he continues to look impressive after his dominate win last week in Seattle. Later in the session Garrett Marchbanks was throwing down some impressive laps and really grabbed out eyes.
We did not get to see any of the SX Futures athletes, but looking forward to seeing them in qualifying tomorrow as the field is stacked. The first two rounds of futures have been pretty interesting to watch.
The activities start with Fan Fest at 11:00am CST, opening ceremonies at 5:30pm CST and Racing at 6pm. The pits are indoors and the weather is expected to be beautiful and in the mid 70’s. If you able to be here in person this would be a great round to do so. If watching from home catch Race Day Live (12:30pm) on Peacock and the Night Show at 6pm CST.
All photo credits: N. Suhr