Marvin Musquin: "Salt Lake is good to me. Back in 2018 I won the heat and won the main, it was a great race and I was fighting for the championship. This year was a different story, I had a big injury and missed all of last year. My goal was to come back. I had some good races but I’ve been obviously struggling and the result hasn’t been great. I can’t believe it right now, I’m standing on the top of the podium. My goal was to get better and better. There’s so many good riders, ou could see it in practice, we’re so tight. Kenny was out front and he was not really going away and behind me was close. I was trying to be consistent. Those whoops were really tough. Then I saw Coop coming and I was like, “Yeah, let’s give it my best!” I’m happy I gave it my all tonight."
Cooper Webb: "Second place is never fun, but congrats to Marv, it’s been a long road back for him. Pumped for him and the team to go 1-2. I didn’t get a good start tonight and that hindered me. I made some moves good moves but I was struggling a little bit early. Found my way up to Jason, I but Malcolm was really good in those whoops and they were super tricky. Finally got a good line and felt pretty good, made a charge there at the end. I thought I was in a great position but Marv really stepped it up at the end. Points is key, but you really want to win when you get that close."
Malcolm Stewart: "Utah fans had me pumped up!. That was such a crazy race. This is so awesome to be up here and finally get the weight off my shoulders. It’s a dream come true.”
Ken Roczen: "Everything was going to our plan, we executed on the start, we made the right decision to go inside. I was feeling pretty good but we got into some appers as well, I made a mistake and I had to double through that entire rhythm lane and that cost me some time. Like everyone said the whoops are really tricky. I think I needed a little more safety, if I could have gotten my bike to settle a little better it would have been better flow around the track. I just didn’t have it there, I changed up my line over there and it was a little bit better, but I came out of that turn and I don’t know, it happened so quick, I just lost the front over a couple of bumps. What do you want me to do? I gave it my best out there. I gave it my best but it didn’t go as planned in the end.”
Jo Shimoda: "First I want to say thank you so much to my family and my team, and my family is here from Japan right now, so it’s really nice to do it in front of them. Just imagine coming over from Japan with only part of your family, and then you get to race supercross, and then winning? That’s an incredible thing to me. I rode my best all day and this is where we ended up, so thank you."
Jett Lawrence: "I’m super pumped for Jo, he’s good buddy of mine, so congrats to him but also damn you Jo, I needed those points!. No, I made a few silly mistakes I shouldn’t have made, I’m bummed about that. Track’s gnarly. You have to hit your marks because it looks tacky but it has a slippery base. Good to be back on the podium, I missed this."
Colt Nichols: "I’m a little frustrated with how it went, the one guy I didn’t need to have win won, but hats off to Jo, he rode great, same to Jett. Sad to see what happened to Christian, you never like to see that happen to someone, I know because. I’ve had my fair share of injuries. There’s a lot on the line here, and I just push, pushed pushed, but I ran out of time. Jo did what he had to do and I straight-up didn’t."
Marvin Musquin: "Salt Lake is good to me. Back in 2018 I won the heat and won the main, it was a great race and I was fighting for the championship. This year was a different story, I had a big injury and missed all of last year. My goal was to come back. I had some good races but I’ve been obviously struggling and the result hasn’t been great. I can’t believe it right now, I’m standing on the top of the podium. My goal was to get better and better. There’s so many good riders, ou could see it in practice, we’re so tight. Kenny was out front and he was not really going away and behind me was close. I was trying to be consistent. Those whoops were really tough. Then I saw Coop coming and I was like, “Yeah, let’s give it my best!” I’m happy I gave it my all tonight."
Cooper Webb: "Second place is never fun, but congrats to Marv, it’s been a long road back for him. Pumped for him and the team to go 1-2. I didn’t get a good start tonight and that hindered me. I made some moves good moves but I was struggling a little bit early. Found my way up to Jason, I but Malcolm was really good in those whoops and they were super tricky. Finally got a good line and felt pretty good, made a charge there at the end. I thought I was in a great position but Marv really stepped it up at the end. Points is key, but you really want to win when you get that close."
Malcolm Stewart: "Utah fans had me pumped up!. That was such a crazy race. This is so awesome to be up here and finally get the weight off my shoulders. It’s a dream come true.”
Ken Roczen: "Everything was going to our plan, we executed on the start, we made the right decision to go inside. I was feeling pretty good but we got into some appers as well, I made a mistake and I had to double through that entire rhythm lane and that cost me some time. Like everyone said the whoops are really tricky. I think I needed a little more safety, if I could have gotten my bike to settle a little better it would have been better flow around the track. I just didn’t have it there, I changed up my line over there and it was a little bit better, but I came out of that turn and I don’t know, it happened so quick, I just lost the front over a couple of bumps. What do you want me to do? I gave it my best out there. I gave it my best but it didn’t go as planned in the end.”
Jo Shimoda: "First I want to say thank you so much to my family and my team, and my family is here from Japan right now, so it’s really nice to do it in front of them. Just imagine coming over from Japan with only part of your family, and then you get to race supercross, and then winning? That’s an incredible thing to me. I rode my best all day and this is where we ended up, so thank you."
Jett Lawrence: "I’m super pumped for Jo, he’s good buddy of mine, so congrats to him but also damn you Jo, I needed those points!. No, I made a few silly mistakes I shouldn’t have made, I’m bummed about that. Track’s gnarly. You have to hit your marks because it looks tacky but it has a slippery base. Good to be back on the podium, I missed this."
Colt Nichols: "I’m a little frustrated with how it went, the one guy I didn’t need to have win won, but hats off to Jo, he rode great, same to Jett. Sad to see what happened to Christian, you never like to see that happen to someone, I know because. I’ve had my fair share of injuries. There’s a lot on the line here, and I just push, pushed pushed, but I ran out of time. Jo did what he had to do and I straight-up didn’t."