Glendale Arizona saw Hunter Lawrence take possession of the coveted red plate after a calm and controlled second place finish, his fourth bridesmaid finish in a row. More importantly than the runner-up spot is how he did it. Not pushing too hard to get to Ken Roczen, despite knowing that Roczen, after Eli Tomac was involved in an incident earlier in the proceedings, would be right on his tail in the standings.“ Second again— we just focus on the positive. I just felt a little flat; usually, around the 10-minute mark, I feel like,‘ Alright, we’ re on,’ but I couldn’ t quite get into that tonight. I tried to make a push at the end with Kenny [ Roczen ] and closed a little bit on him, but a little too late. The first thing I focus on is the start, and I saw Eli [ Tomac ] down when I came back on the start straight; that was obviously in my favour, but I just focused ahead. Kenny had the sand line really good. The majority of the day, the outside was a better run into that double-triple; I hadn’ t gone inside yet in the race, and I didn’ t realize how good it actually was. Sure enough, after I got passed [ by Roczen ], I went inside for the rest of the race, so that’ s on me. Before the beginning of the season, I had supercross circled on my calendar for this year. I’ m happy to have the red plate— it’ s cool in the 450 Supercross Championship. I want to keep it, but I just want the red plate at the last round, plain and simple. From 2020, the amount of work to be here, it’ s kind of tough to put into words how much goes into getting to this point, but it is pretty damn cool.” Cooper Webb had a solid but not spectacular round for him, with a third place finish keeping him well and truly in the hunt. After 5 of 17 rounds, the top five are separated by just 17 points – Lawrence now on 106, Roczen on 101, Tomac on 98, Webb 91 and Chase Sexton rounding things out on 89 points.