Hi Steemers,
For Honda HRC Factory Racing rider Ken Roczen, this weekends Monster Energy Supercross race in Houston was certainly bittersweet. He finally broke his voodoo and brought home his first win since he came back from his two almost career ending injuries. Sure some people can say that it's just a Triple Crown win and not a full main event but after watching how dominant he was in the first main i disagree, he had that in the bag! Things went from euphoric though to devastating as he crashed out in the first turn of the second main and was seen limping back to the bike before pulling off the track and into the pits. He limped back to ride the third main and managed an impressive eighth which is pretty damn impressive before releasing this statement about it all.
Ken Roczen
Honda HRC Factory Racing
"The first main event tonight was seriously so good! We grabbed a great start and got out front right away, pulling a ten-second gap on the rest of the field. It was amazing to see the checkered flag before anyone else. Unfortunately, it was only in one main. In the second one, I got tangled up with Dean's [Wilson] rear wheel and went down pretty hard. I smashed my toe and originally thought I had an ankle injury, but luckily that wasn't the case.
"My bike was also so bent up after the crash. I got checked out and it actually started to feel better, instead of worse, after fifteen to twenty minutes. That was good but my toe was still in a lot of pain. Luckily I was able to just jump back on the bike and do what I could in the third main, salvaging an eighth-place and getting tenth overall. It's not really how we wanted to end tonight, especially with how well the day and first race went, but again we are healthy and moving onto the next one. At one point, it will come."
After Houstons points have been tallied up that puts Roczen in fourth in the overall standings and thirty six points down from the leader Cooper Webb.
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