FAT Cali trip. Day 4. Supercross, braaaappp!

Feb 05, 2024

Written by Bart de Jong

Read 1138 times

The coffee machine in the room didn't produce the best coffee ever, but the convenience and price (unlimited free supply) won it on Saturday morning as we set sail to San Diego again. We parked in the streets near the hotel to avoid the $22 per day parking that Solarena offered. We only had to take note of sweeping days, something that kicked our ass back in 2023. The vehicles in America are something else. Maybe 90% or more are owned by the bank still, but damn, the cars are nice. On so many occasions I would say, that's perfect, or give it a simple, wow, making the 90 minute drive to SD a breeze. I remember from years ago that traffic on the weekends to San Diego was really bad, but that might have been because it was summer time and a hot day or something. No problems this time.

Weather was still good, but we'd heard that rain was on the way. After a mud race in San Francisco where it seems to rain a lot more, we weren't hoping for a similar supercross race in SD. In the morning while it was dry we scoped the pits and immediately ran into an old skool BMX booth run by Todd Huffmann and Toby Henderson. A conversation followed which could have taken hours but we left the booth with the plan on coming back later. That later never happened as it started to pour around 1pm and didn't stop until 5pm. We found a dry place to hang out (media centre) and got to work away a bit while looking at the track getting wet. The race was a mix between SF and Friday's media day when it was dry. Triples were jumped, but it was sketchy.

We witnessed Aaron Plessinger winning his first 450 SX and Jettson and El Hombre getting into a heated discussion. The 250 victory was for Thrasher. It was a long but sick day watching Supercross live. On the way back we stopped at Taco Bell for a 'proper meal' as we'd been living on snacks all day. Another one in the books.