James Stewart crashed during the main event in San Diego. Image: Simon Cudby.

Toyota/Yamaha/JGRMX’s James Stewart has spoken about about his bizarre crash during last weekend’s main event at the San Diego round of Monster Energy AMA Supercross.

The former champion crashed through the tricky whoops section of the course. Stewart recovered from a mid-pack start in the 20-lap main event to make several sharp overtaking moves and force his way to third place.

It was on the sixth lap when the incident occurred, but he was able to remount. Although a lap down, Stewart reached the flag in 15th for a few points.

“We had a good practice and I had an okay start in the main – top 10 somewhere,” Stewart explained. “I made my way up and got into third place and ended up going down in the whoops. I don’t know what happened, I was just riding and doing my thing.

“I was on my head so quick. I was stuck under the bike, completely stuck on something. I was trying to pull it off, and finally a guy pulled his knife out and cut me out and I got going. A little bit frustrating but we will go back and keep on working.

“I appreciate all the fans sticking behind us. We’ve got a lot of races left so we will continue getting better.”

Reigning Champion Ryan Villopoto rode to his second win in succession and heads the standings. Stewart is fourth and 32 points in arrears.