Race Recap
RedBud · Rd 5 · 450MX
July 4, 2026
Hunter Lawrence survives a Moto 1 spill to win RedBud and take back the red plate
Hunter led Moto 1 late, went down out front, remounted for second,
then won Moto 2 outright for a 2-1 overall, his third win of the
season and second in a row. Brother Jett won Moto 1 but crashed away
the lead in Moto 2 and salvaged fifth, ending third overall on 1-5;
Jorge Prado holeshot both motos for a 3-2 and second. With Jett's
stumble, Hunter leaves Michigan back on top of the championship,
227 points, four clear of Jett, with six rounds
left.
Two brothers, two Moto 1 leads, two crashes. Hunter got back up in
time. Jett didn't. Four points now separate them.
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Race Recap
RedBud · Rd 5 · 250MX
July 4, 2026
Cole Davies doubles up, the season's first repeat 250 winner
A week after his breakthrough at High Point, Davies backed it up
with a 1-2 at RedBud to become the first two-time 250MX winner of
2026. Jo Shimoda answered with a 3-1 for second and, more
importantly, keeps the points lead, 192, six up on
Davies. Ryder DiFrancesco's 6-3 earned the first overall
podium of his 250MX career. Levi Kitchen's quiet 4-5 dropped him
from the top of the standings to third.
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Headline
RedBud · Rd 5 · 450MX
July 4, 2026
Antonio Cairoli guest-rides RedBud, and runs inside the top 12
The nine-time world champion lined up as a 450 wildcard on the #222
Ducati and went 12-13 for 12th overall against a full factory field
, a genuinely competitive cameo from a rider who hasn't run a full
outdoor season in years. He wasn't the only European guest, either:
MXGP's Roan Van De Moosdijk was in the mix too.
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Race Recap
High Point · Rd 4 · MX
June 20, 2026
Hunter Lawrence sweeps High Point; Cole Davies breaks through for his first 250 win
Hunter Lawrence went a perfect 1-1 at High Point to answer Jett's
Thunder Valley double and keep the 450 title fight razor-thin. In
the 250s, Cole Davies turned early-season speed into a maiden
overall, also 1-1, the 250SX East champion translating outdoors in
real time. Julien Beaumer went 2-2 for second; Jo Shimoda's steady
3-4 kept him atop the points.
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Race Recap
Thunder Valley · Rd 3 · MX
June 13, 2026
The Coenen twins arrive, and Jett makes it two in a row at altitude
Jett Lawrence went 1-1 at high-altitude Thunder Valley for his
second straight win, but the story was the debut of the Coenen
brothers. Lucas Coenen ran a stunning 2-2 for second overall in his
first 450MX start; in the 250s, Sacha Coenen won Moto 2 outright,
though Jo Shimoda's 3-2 took the overall.
A 2-2 in your first American outdoor national is not a soft landing.
Lucas Coenen served notice at 6,000 feet.
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Race Recap
Hangtown · Rd 2 · MX
June 6, 2026
Jett Lawrence wins his first race back from injury; Cooper's day ends early
Two weeks after a quiet opener, Jett Lawrence went 1-1 at Hangtown
for his first win since a pre-season ankle injury, brother Hunter's
2-2 keeping the red plate close. Levi Kitchen answered his Fox
Raceway Moto 2 mistake with a clean 2-2 to win the 250 overall. The
day turned costly elsewhere: Justin Cooper's Moto 2 ended early, the
start of an injury that would sideline him.
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Race Recap
Fox Raceway · Rd 1 · MX
May 30, 2026
Hunter Lawrence sweeps the Pala opener; Tomac a no-show
The outdoor season opened at Fox Raceway with Hunter Lawrence in
total control, pole, then a 1-1 for 50 points and the first red
plate of 2026. Seth Hammaker took the 250 opener on 2-1 scores after
pole-sitter Levi Kitchen threw away a big day with a Moto 2 P13. The
notable absence: Eli Tomac qualified tenth but did not start either
moto, opening his season on the sidelines.
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Race Recap
SLC · Rd 17 · 450SX
May 9, 2026
Ken Roczen wins his first 450SX title, thirteen seasons in
Roczen finished fifth at Salt Lake City. Chase Sexton won the race
for his fourth straight SLC finale win, and Hunter Lawrence finished
seventh, the exact set of results Roczen needed to take the title
by three points. At 32 years old, Roczen became the oldest 450SX
champion in Supercross history (the previous record was Tomac at 29
in 2022). He is the first European to win the premier class in
thirty-five years, since Jean-Michel Bayle in 1991, and
the first German ever. Suzuki picked up its first 450SX
championship since Ryan Dungey in 2010.
Five wins. Twelve podiums. Same totals as Hunter Lawrence. Two
positions across seventeen rounds separated them.
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Race Recap
SLC · East/West Showdown
May 9, 2026
Cole Davies pays back the 2025 Denver incident at the SLC Showdown
The 19-year-old New Zealander wrapped up the 250SX East title a
round early, then showed up to the East/West Showdown finale and
made a point. On lap 9, Davies put a hard block-pass on Haiden
Deegan in a corner, eerily reminiscent of the move Deegan put on
him in Denver the previous year, when they were Star Racing
teammates. Davies took the win and the message landed. Monster Star
Racing split the two into East and West to prevent exactly this
kind of incident; it didn't help at the only round both regions
raced together.
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Analysis
SLC · Rd 17 · 450SX
May 10, 2025
Cooper Webb's 2025 title: a clinic in points-preservation racing
Sexton won seven races. Webb won five. Sexton entered the Salt Lake
City finale with a nine-point deficit but only needed to outscore
Webb by ten to take the championship. He won the race by almost
ten seconds. He lost the title by two points. The reason: Webb let
Sexton uncontested past him early, then fought Malcolm Stewart
tooth-and-nail for second place, sacrificing fight against the
leader to protect points against everyone else. The number-one plate
for Webb's third title is, mathematically, the result of refusing to
chase. It's the kind of championship that gets you on a short list
of seven riders ever to win three or more 450SX titles.
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Feature
2024 Season
May 13, 2024
Jett Lawrence's rookie 450SX title, and what it actually meant
Eight wins. Twenty years old. Won his premier-class debut at
Anaheim 1, the first rider to ever do that. Third ever to take the
450SX title in a rookie season. The catch: Lawrence had already won
the 2023 Pro Motocross 450 championship in a literal perfect season,
so calling 2024 a "rookie" year was always a generous reading. AMA
and Feld officially branded the 2024 season "the most competitive
in Supercross history", and Lawrence won it anyway, while sounding
in post-race press conferences like a kid who had just won a karting
championship at a county fair.
Lawrence's eight wins were the second-most ever by a 450SX rookie,
trailing only Jeremy McGrath's ten in 1993.
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Feature
2023 Season
May 13, 2023
Sexton's 2023 comeback was the Bailey '83 of the modern era
Twenty-five points down to Eli Tomac with five rounds to go.
Sitting third, not second. Most title fights are over at that
point. Sexton wasn't told that. He won Detroit, won Atlanta, won
Nashville. Tomac entered Denver with an eighteen-point lead, then
over-jumped a triple, landed hard, and ruptured his Achilles
tendon mid-race. Sexton inherited the points lead with one round
left, drove from the holeshot for twenty-five unchallenged laps at
Salt Lake City, and won the championship by eighteen seconds. It
was the largest late-season points comeback in 450SX history since
David Bailey rallied from third to first across the final five
rounds of 1983. Honda's first 450SX title in twenty years.
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Headline
2023 · 250SX East & West
May 14, 2023
The Lawrence brothers swept both 250SX regions, a first in series history
Jett took the 250SX West (five wins in eight rounds before
graduating to the 450 class). Hunter took the 250SX East (seven
wins in nine rounds). The Lawrence brothers became the first
siblings ever to win both regional 250SX championships in the same
season, and the first to simultaneously hold the red plate on
opposite coasts. Honda hadn't had a 250SX championship sweep like
this in the East/West split era. It was, in the most clinical
sense, a family-business takeover.
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Race Recap
Daytona · Rd 9 · 450SX
March 5, 2022
Tomac breaks Carmichael's Daytona record, on a track Carmichael designed
Daytona Supercross is run on a course Ricky Carmichael has designed
for fifteen consecutive years. Carmichael also holds the all-time
wins record at the venue. Carmichael also calls the race from the
booth. In 2022, Eli Tomac entered tied with him at five Daytona
wins. With less than a minute left on the clock, Tomac was running
second behind Cooper Webb when Webb had the only bobble of his
night in heavy lapped traffic. Tomac swept past and won his sixth
Daytona, breaking the record on the GOAT's own race track, with
the GOAT calling it live. The kind of thing that happens once.
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Feature
2022 Season · Denver
April 30, 2022
Eli Tomac, debut season on Yamaha, becomes oldest 450SX champ ever
Tomac left Kawasaki for Monster Star Racing Yamaha for 2022. By
round three at San Diego he was on the podium. By the season's
midpoint he was leading. At Denver, round sixteen, a fifth-place
finish was enough to clinch his second 450SX title. He was 29
years old, which at the time made him the oldest 450SX champion
in the sport's then-49-year history. (Roczen would push the record
to 32 four years later, but Tomac held it for the full quadrennial.)
The bigger story: it was Yamaha's first 450SX title since James
Stewart, thirteen seasons earlier in 2009.
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