Race Recap
SLC · Rd 17
May 10, 2026
Jett Lawrence wins the chess match nobody asked him to play
Chase Sexton led nineteen of the twenty-five laps in Salt Lake City.
Jett Lawrence still left Utah with two more championship points than
him. If you only watched the front of the broadcast you'd think
Sexton ran away with it; if you watched the lap chart you'd notice
Jett was three-tenths a lap faster from the sand section onward and
picked his moment with the kind of patience usually reserved for
people watching paint dry. A clinic — quiet, surgical, deeply
annoying for the No. 1 plate holder.
Jett didn't win the race. He won the math problem the race happened
to be wrapped around.
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Analysis
250 Class
May 9, 2026
Haiden Deegan's lap-2 deficit, charted
Across the last six rounds, Deegan has averaged a 0.48-second deficit
on lap two before turning the race around. By lap ten that deficit
is a 0.31-second lead. We pulled the timing data and overlaid it. The
chart looks like every chart you've seen of a stock that knows what
it's doing — only louder. Whether the warm-up is a tire choice, a
line choice, or just the kid being nineteen is up for debate; the
outcome, less so.
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Feature
Manufacturer Watch
May 7, 2026
Honda's quietly best season since 2003
Red Riders haven't put this many bikes on the podium per round since
the early-aughts Carmichael years. Some of that is the Lawrence
effect. Some of it is genuinely the bike — the CRF450R is one of the
most balanced machines on a modern Supercross floor, and it's
showing up in places it didn't a decade ago. Honda hasn't said much
about it. They don't really have to.
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Race Recap
Pittsburgh · Rd 16
May 3, 2026
Sexton's metronome night in Pittsburgh
Twenty laps. Lap-time spread under three-tenths. If you set your
watch by Chase Sexton's lap times last Saturday, you would still be
on time for everything for the rest of your life. Wire-to-wire,
no drama, and the kind of win that makes the title fight feel
substantially less decided than the points table suggests.
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Headline
Silly Season
May 6, 2026
Roczen's 2027 ride: 'Closer than you think,' team says
Ken Roczen continues to be both one of the smoothest riders in the
paddock and one of the most-rumored. Multiple sources in the
industry are pointing toward an extended HEP Suzuki run; one
paddock insider noted, in our favorite quote of the week, that
"Kenny's bike-control is doing more for that program than the
R&D budget."
More on the rumor mill →
Analysis
Starts
May 5, 2026
Holeshot share, year over year
Six different riders have taken at least one 450SX holeshot this
season — the most diverse start sheet since 2018. We dug into the
gate-drop data: gear choice has trended a half-tooth shorter across
the field, and reaction times are tighter than they've ever been.
The start, against all expectations, has gotten harder. The riders,
against all expectations, have gotten better at it.
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Feature
Profiles
May 1, 2026
The veterans: who's still in the top five at 30+
Tomac, Webb, Anderson, Roczen — four riders north of thirty, four
riders still inside the top eight. A look at how training, bike
development, and a frankly stubborn refusal to retire have rewritten
what a 'late career' looks like in this sport.
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