Good track for you here. You did well last year, of course. Today you took the overall. Is it too easy to say that it’s a European track? Is that too easy?
It’s not a European track. I don’t know why everybody [says] that. I never see a track in Europe that’s 2:20 the lap. It doesn’t exist. It’s not European at all. There is uphill, downhill, everywhere.

There’s big jumps on it.
Yeah, also. So I don’t understand why people say that. It’s just a gnarly track. Especially today it was tough. Big ruts everywhere since first lap of the first practice to last lap second moto, ruts everywhere. Long ruts, big bumps. Honestly it was tough physically and technically it was difficult to manage this track and get the flow every lap. So really happy to get the win today.

In the second moto, you guys were doing the same lap times for I think five laps in a row. They weren’t exactly the same, but they were 2:17, 4, 6. It was incredible. You guys were just matching each other.
DV told me already. His best lap and my best lap are like 0.001 difference. It’s crazy. I think we are completely different riders, but we have kind of the same speed. It’s just about not giving up. The first to give up will get beat by the other. Just give it all and don’t give up. We try. We both try to push the best we can to the limit.

I like it. It’s exciting. Then after the finish, you guys handshake. You both want to win. You both want to beat each other, but you’re being professional about it. You’re being cool about it. I like that.
Yeah. It’s not really about being professional or whatever. It’s just I’m working really hard. I know what I do every day, every morning when I wake up. If he beats me, I know he’s doing the same and work as hard as I do so I have respect for that.

Adam Cianciarulo | 1-2 for second overall in the 250 Class

Racer X: You guys tied in points today, so I guess that’s the important thing. You didn’t lose any points today. Really good battle. You started out front first moto. He couldn’t get you. Reverse that for the second moto. You guys are pushing each other. I just told Ferrandis that there were three or four laps where you guys were almost the same times. It was cool and it was intense.
Adam Cianciarulo: Yeah. I think it’s tough for me. Having a lot of good races this year in the past, obviously second would have been awesome, but now it feels different. It kind of feels how it felt when I was an amateur or something. The expectations are just higher now, which I guess is a nice thing. So even though we did what we came here to do in the sense of basically the weekend is just a wash, two less motos to do it, but it’s hard for me to accept second at the same time. So I do put my best foot forward. On a track like that out there too, we’re racing the track so much. It’s not like we can really be going back and forth out there more. I know we didn’t really go back and forth at Washougal, but that’s kind of more of a track that you would duke it out on. This track you have to be so much faster than the guy ahead of you. Second moto, I made a big mistake right after halfway, hit neutral and then Chase [Sexton] was right on me. Dylan gained maybe five seconds on me that lap, it felt like. So it took me the rest of the moto to get back to him, whether he’s managing the race or not. I felt great. So I can’t fault my riding. I feel really good right now. Just trying to limit the super risks. He’s going super fast. I’m going really fast too, so in order to really make a move, and especially in his position—he’s wide open, nothing to lose. Worst case scenario, he goes down, gets up, gets fifth, gets second in the championship or something. He’s not sweating it. For me, I’ve got to be smart sometimes. But at the same time, I’m going to be going for it. The last four motos I need to do my best every time.