Indianapolis Supercross Highlights and race report!!!
When asked if his heat race crash and fifth place finish drove his main event motivation Forkner answered, “Yeah, definitely. That heat race was mine, I gave it up. Pretty simple I just went into the first turn too hard, and that left me with like tenth gate pick. I’m not even sure, I think I got fifth, so ninth or tenth gate pick. I was so motivated, though, and I was so confident with my starts that it didn’t really matter to me where I had to line up, I was like, ‘It doesn’t matter, I’m putting the bike up front. If that’s a first or that’s a top three, either way I can work with it.’ Ended up getting the holeshot, I think; we were real close along the back section, me and a Yamaha guy, I’m not sure who it was. I made the pass stick in the rhythm section and just tried to ride smooth laps. I didn’t really get the chance to do that in the Heat Race because I was getting through guys, so it was good to get out front and do some laps. I was pumped. I mean, smooth is fast, it’s that simple, and that was my goal tonight. I’m a little sick… so I knew that I couldn’t over-push because I just really didn’t have the strength to do that tonight. So smooth laps, jumping through the whoops, that got it done tonight.”