Supercross Round 10: Another milestone in Detroit, Eli Tomac takes sole possession of fifth on winners list

Monster Energy Supercross Round 10 was one for the books as just one week after winning a record-setting sixth Monster Energy Supercross race at Daytona, Florida, Eli Tomac set another milestone by taking sole possession fifth on the all-time winners list with his 42nd career victory, breaking a tie with Ryan Villopoto and landing three wins behind Chad Reed. It was Tomac’s third straight win of 2022.

Tomac got off to a patented slow start, riding barely inside the top 10 at the end of Lap 1, but then meticulously made his way to the front at the halfway point after passing his principal rival in the championship battle, Jason Anderson, for the lead.

But drama waited in the wings.

After winning his heat, Tomac called this track “tricky.” As it turned out, that was a major understatement.

“That’s the way the track was tonight,” Tomac told NBC Sports’ Willi Christien. “It was one of the tougher surfaces I’ve ever ridden or raced on because it had both conditions. It was sticky and hard in the rhythm sections, pulling you left and right. But then it had the base in some of the bottoms of the turns where you could lose your front end.”

Absolute chaos as Sexton and Webb come together, and Anderson goes down all on the same lap