Cooper Webb’s Day at Budds Creek MX 2017 | PHOTOS

Cooper Webb’s mechanic Eric Gass does some final prep on Copper’s factory YZ450F prior to the 1st practice got underway.

Cooper’s factory Yamaha sits waiting for him to get her dirty in the 1st timed practice. The Yamaha factory team does a nice job with the marketing partitions showing off Cooper’s bike and the brand new 2018 YZ450F since Cooper will be the only rider under the tent for that outdoors.

Within the 1st timed practice Cooper turned his fastest lap, a two: 12. 313, on his 5th panel of the practice. Cooper only got down to the 2: 12s twice within the session were he recorded a 2: 12. 727 on his second lap, the other laps were throwaway laps.

After the 1st timed practice Cooper took time to sign autographs for his fans.

Cooper took pictures with his fans and also had his mom come through the line and take a picture together with the family dog. Cooper looked like this individual was having a good time in between the practice sessions.

Whenever Cooper got ready to head to the particular gate for the 2nd timed practice he took a moment to check his lever position and rocked the bars back and forth to see how reduce or tight the steering was.

Cooper is usually kept cool as he waits for the five-minute starting session to start. The factory Yamaha team has been using battery-powered fans and leaf blowers all summer to keep both Cooper and the bike's temps down.

During the starts the particular leaf blower was pointed to the engine and transmission to help great it down after doing many starts.

Within the 2nd timed practice, Cooper was able to turn a faster lap associated with 2: 06. 653 for the third fastest time on his 4th panel. The track was much dryer and here Cooper took the inside 1st double by the roller section prior to the finish line jump.

Cooper gets ready for the first Moto of the day and looked to be in good spirits as he geared up for that race.

Cooper took the inside gate hoping to get a good jump out of the gate and use the inside line into the 1st change. Unfortunately, Cooper didn’t get the leap out of the gate he needed as he got pinched off into the lawn. He managed to take the bad start and come out in 9th place after the 1st lap.

Cooper takes the main mentality through the U-turn off camber when he tries to get his inside lower-leg up and out as he leaves the turn.

Eric Gass gives Cooper his lap times and lets Cooper know that 14 minutes has passed within the race, while Blake Baggett’s auto technician tells him he is in 8th place and he needs to “fire upward. ” Cooper finished the Moto in 9th place.

For the 2nd Moto, Cooper lined up just inside the doghouse hoping to get a better start then he did in Moto 1 . He left the 1st turn in 9th place right behind Marvin Musquin and was able to complete Marvin and Matt Bisceglia on lap 2 to move up to 7th place.

Cooper lost his fork guard in the 1st turn but that did not slow him down as he took the inside line through the braking lumps before dropping down before the canal jump after the finish line.

Cooper stays within the track marker as many of the cyclists were taking the line between the banner ad and the marker as they entered the off camber turn.

Cooper got trapped at the rear of a lapper as they went through the off camber. Cooper revved their engine trying to get the lappers interest.

Cooper Webb held the 7th place place from lap 2 to the checkered flag.