2019 Oakland Supercross 450 Class Post-Race Interviews

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"How Was Your Weekend" post-race interviews with 450 class riders Marvin Musquin, Blake Baggett, and Cooper Webb following the 2019 Oakland Supercross, round four of the 2019 Monster Energy Supercross Series.

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00:00Well, I ended up second, so I'm really happy to finish the day, obviously, on the podium.

00:11It was a tough day.

00:12I mean, the practice was good, it's just everybody was fast, rhythm sections, everybody was doing

00:18the same thing.

00:19Only the whoops really made a little difference, but I got a good lap in practice, and going

00:28into the heat race, I got a good start, but I got fourth, I got past, and my whoops were

00:34not so good, but I got better towards the end.

00:39A guy like Brayton, you know, was pushing hard in the whoops, but I was able to get

00:43him back and then get better in the whoops, so that was good.

00:46But going into the main event, those whoops were super rough, and I was able to get through

00:53them pretty good, so I was happy about that.

00:56My start was good, I was a comfortable second behind Cooper, and I knew it was going to

01:00be, obviously, a long main event, but I relaxed a little too much in that one section and

01:05lost the front end, and from that, I was like, man, it's going to be tough to get on the

01:10podium tonight, and then a couple laps later, I passed Tomek back and then Roxen back, so

01:18that gave me a boost of maybe confidence, and I couldn't believe it.

01:23I was like, dang, I'm back to second, so obviously, Cooper had maybe a six-second lead

01:30or something like that, and I was able to catch him, so it was good, but not enough

01:35to pass him.

01:37So yeah, the speed was good, and I felt like tonight I could have won, even though it was

01:44maybe not expected, you know, from before the main, but yeah, starts are important,

01:50but even though with the crash, I was able to get second, so that's amazing.

01:53Yeah, and just touching on how, like you said, it switched back that one lap, so much happened,

01:59that's really telling of this track, right?

02:01It was really hard.

02:02Yeah, it was super hard.

02:04I mean, you want to race hard, but it's easy to make mistakes, but yeah, I was trying to

02:11be consistent, smart, smooth, and it came to me, you know, and on that track, I was,

02:18obviously, not every single lap doing what I wanted to, especially through the whoops,

02:23but I got better towards the end, and you just needed to be patient, and yeah, to be

02:29able to, like I said, pass Tomek and Roxen back, you know, it's really important.

02:33It was a struggle, a bad start, and then I just crawled my way towards the front, so

02:38you know, I'll take a third for sure.

02:40There's only round four, 13 to go, and we'll just want to be in the hunt at the end.

02:44Yeah, it was huge.

02:45Two in a row, it's pretty spectacular, I can't believe it, honestly, and red plate,

02:53first time ever, 450 career, I mean, it's a big night, it's spectacular, and to do it

02:59back-to-back is insane, so I'm stoked, and hopefully we can keep it rolling, awesome

03:04night for KTM, one, two, three, and yeah, let's get this thing going.

03:09Is the old Cooper Webb back?

03:11I surely hope so.

03:12I mean, I feel good, I feel confident, I feel like I'm maybe the new Coop, I've learned

03:18a lot and matured a lot, so hopefully that applies, and we'll keep it rolling.

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