INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana: Cooper Webb took the lead on Lap 1 in Lucas Oil Stadium and stretched his advantage throughout the race to score his third win in the last four rounds. He extended his points lead to 15 over Chase Sexton after finishing second or better in his last six attempts.
Webb crashed in his heat race and struggled to finish fourth, which gave him a less than ideal gate position, but he overcame that deficit and led Lap 1 for his first Indy win.
“I was pissed off,” Webb told Peacock’s Will Christien. “I made a lot of mistakes today. Man, that was an awesome main event for me, probably one of the easier ones of my career. Got a good lead and could ride the pace. Obviously when Chase went down it really opened up the cushion. … I executed my start, rode great laps in the beginning and then put it on cruise control and (had a) drama-free race.”
Justin Cooper snapped a streak of four fourth- or fifth-place finishes to score his first podium of the season.
“I’ve been fighting demons,” Cooper said. “I’ve been top-five the last four weekends, three of them being fourths, so it’s been tough to go home, regroup and go after that podium again. I’ve been sticking to it, trusting the process and really been riding good each weekend, consistent. … It’s cool for the team. One-two is big. This has been long overdue for me and I feel like I’ve been fighting for this for a while now.”
Sexton crashed in the closing laps while running second but held on to finish third.
“I had a good flow going for the first half of the race and when I hit that red cross flag (for a crash involving Joey Savatgy), I started losing my flow and ended up going down,” Sexton said. “Tough track. Battled back toward the end. I had Justin (Barcia) close behind me, so I just tried to get on the podium, build a little bit of momentum going into this break. (I need to) get some rest, try and regroup, and come out swinging for the last eight.”
Barcia narrowly missed the podium and finished fourth after earning the holeshot and leading half of the first lap.
Aaron Plessinger rounded out the top five.
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In the 250 division, Seth Hammaker earned the holeshot and led flag-to-flag in the 250 East / West Showdown. He became the eighth winner in nine 250 races.
“Man, what an unreal feeling,” Hammaker said. “My second win of my career and it’s been a while since I stood on the top of the podium, so that feels amazing. Got myself off to an excellent start. Tried to sprint away those first couple of laps. … When you’re out there in the lead and (have) a little bit of a gap, it was a little challenging to stay focused but I’m proud of myself, proud of the team, the group of people I have around me, my whole family.”
Hammaker’s only other win to date came in Arlington in 2021.
Hammaker bobbled slightly once in the race’s middle stages but had a big enough lead over Tom Vialle so that he was never seriously challenged. Vialle crossed under the checkers 5.766 seconds back.
“Slowly getting back in the rhythm, and I felt great tonight,” Vialle said. “Like Daytona, I was again close to victory, but Seth rode amazing. I’m pretty happy with second-place. The track was pretty tricky tonight, pretty easy to make a mistake.”
Vialle took the red plate from Max Anstie by one point.
Haiden Deegan was fast in practice, qualification, and the West heat, but a slow start put him outside the top five on the first lap. He climbed to third in short order but had an off-track excursion midway through the race and lost too much ground to overcome. Deegan stood on the podium, 13 seconds behind Hammaker.
“Obviously, I wanted the win,” Deegan said. "… I ended up airing out that quad, or whatever you call it, and I ended up busting up something in my engine when I landed super hard so those last few laps, I tried to be smart and ride it in. My gears were clanging a little bit. No excuses. Those boys rode great: Tom and Seth were better guys tonight.”
RJ Hampshire was also forced to come through the pack before he settled into fourth.
Cole Davies crashed in the sand early to complete the theme of racing from the back. He climbed to fifth at the end of the show.
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Pre-Race Notes
As the 2025 Monster Energy Supercross Series crests halfway, the first East / West Showdown highlights the weekend.
In the 450 division, a battle rages between Cooper Webb, Chase Sexton, and the dark horse Ken Roczen.
St. Jude Children’s Hospital is in everyone’s mind this week as the race weekend is dedicated to the official charity partner of Supercross.
Justin Barcia earned the holeshot but Cooper Webb passed him on Lap 1.
Chase Sexton was close behind in third.
There was a pileup in Turn 1 that claimed Ken Roczen and Jason Anderson.
Roczen climbed back to 10th on Lap 4.
Sexton passed Barcia for second on Lap 5. Barcia was still in a podium position, which would pay +462 if he could stay there.
Webb had a four-second lead over Sexton on Lap 6.
Fourth-place Justin Cooper and Dylan Ferrandis rounded out the top five.
Webb and Sexton worked traffic equally well, but the lead stabilized at four seconds.
Plessinger took fifth from Ferrandis on Lap 10.
Cooper caught Barcia on Lap 12. The gap was under a second.
Joey Savatgy crashed hard on Lap 12; he was running ninth. He walked to the medical cart.
The red cross flag waved for Savatgy as Webb built his advantage to more than eight seconds.
Barcia won’t pay off. Cooper passed him for third on Lap 16. He’s been fourth in three of the last four rounds.
Sexton fell in the sand on Lap 18, allowing Cooper to take second. Plessinger fell out of fifth while racing Barcia. Malcolm Stewart took the spot.
Webb held on for the victory by more than nine seconds over Justin Cooper.
Chase Sexton finished third and lost five more championship points to the leader.
Seth Hammaker earned the holeshot and took the early lead.
Tom Vialle and Julien Beaumer rounded out the top three on the opening lap while Haiden Deegan was just outside the top five.
Deegan quickly got into the top five as Beaumer started to fade.
After coming through traffic, Deegan lost five seconds to the leader Hammaker. Vialle remained second.
Shimoda and Beaumer remained in the top five.
On Lap 3, Deegan got around Jo Shimoda for third.
On Lap 6. Hammaker bobbled in the whoops, allowing Vialle to close the gap.
RJ Hampshire overcame a poor start and climbed into fifth around Shimoda on Lap 9.
Beaumer lost two positions on Lap 12. Hampshire moved into fourth with Shimoda fifth.
Davies has overcome an early fall in the sand and climbed to fifth.
Deegan took an off-track excursion and lost six seconds, but he remained third on Lap 15. In fourth, Hampshire was six seconds behind Deegan.
Hammaker held on for a six-second victory over Vialle. Deegan survived a crash to finish third.
There was a big pileup in Turn 1 that collected Grant Harlan.
Meanwhile, Fast Freddie Noren gets the holeshot.
Compared to the 250 division, the 450 class is calmer at the front. Noren led Jeremy Hand and Kyle Chisholm early.
Justin Starling fell from fourth on Lap 5 under pressure from Jerry Robin.
Noren held on for the win over Chisholm.
Hand and Robin also advanced.
Hunter Yoder took the lead early. He was motivated to advance after getting cleaned out by Jett Reynolds at the end of the race.
Austin Forkner got a poor start and was in fifth on Lap 2.
Forkner momentarily had fourth before Henry Miller passed him on Lap 4.
Miller bobbled, and Forkner retook fourth on Lap 5. One lap later, Forkner took third from Cullin Park.
On the last lap, Forkner stumbled and gave up third to Park. Miller almost caught him as well.
Yoder won the 250 LCQ, followed by Lux Turner, Park, and Forkner.
Aaron Plessinger earned the holeshot, but his teammate Chase Sexton was on his back wheel. Sexton needs a strong feature run to stop his points slide.
Dylan Ferrandis rounded out the top three.
Sexton moved into second on Lap 2. Ken Roczen passed Ferrandis for third.
Roczen got around Plessinger for second on Lap 4.
Jason Anderson rounded out the top five.
Sexton was on a mission. He beat Roczen to the line by nearly seven seconds.
Ferrandis took the final podium position.
Fourth-place Plessinger and Anderson rounded out the top five.
Mitchell Oldenburg was in sixth, Colt Nichols was in seventh, Benny Bloss was in eighth, and Kevin Moranz advanced directly into the feature.
Justin Hill is having a career year and led early.
Malcolm Stewart and Joey Savatgy were close behind.
Webb crashed in the sand on Lap 2 and fell to seventh.
Justin Barcia moved into second early. He was listed as a strong dark horse pre-race.
Stewart took the lead on Lap 4.
Hill and Barcia rounded out the top three.
On Lap 6, Webb made his way to fifth behind Savatgy.
On Lap 7, Webb moves into fourth, still trailing Savatgy in third.
Stewart converted his strong start to a 6.246-second win over Barcia.
Savatgy held onto the final podium position as Webb recovered to finish fourth.
Hill rounded out the top five.
Shane McElrath in sixth, Justin Cooper in seventh, Anthony Rodriguez in eighth, and Mitchell Harrison also advanced directly into the feature.
Red plate holder Max Anstie took the early lead.
RJ Hampshire and Tom Vialle rounded out the top three early, but Seth Hammaker made the pass for third on Lap 2.
Hampshire caught Anstie on Lap 3, but the Brit held him at bay.
On Lap 6, Anstie and Hampshire were side-by-side.
Anstie held Hampshire off in the closing laps, with Hammaker a distant third.
Fourth-place Tom Vialle and Daxton Bennick rounded out the top five.
Nate Thrasher in sixth, Carson Mumford in seventh, Chance Hymas in eighth, and Maximus Vohland in ninth also advanced directly into the Feature.
Austin Forkner crashed late in the race and will have to go through the Last Chance Qualifier.
Haiden Deegan got off to a strong start with the holeshot.
By the end of Lap 1, Yamaha had the top four spots with Deegan, Michael Mosiman, Cole Davies, and Jett Reynolds.
Jo Shimoda was fifth on his Honda.
Deegan checked out. He had a five-second lead — the length of a straightaway — on Lap 5.
On the next lap, Shimoda moved around Reynolds for fourth.
Davies took second on lap 6.
Garrett Marchbanks moved around Reynolds earlier and took Shimoda for fourth on Lap 9.
Deegan won, but Davies closed the gap late. He was 2.492 seconds behind
Mosiman took the final podium spot.
Fourth-place Marchbanks and Shimoda rounded out the top five.
Coty Schock in sixth, Julien Beaumer in seventh, and Gavin Towers in eighth also advanced.
The drama of the race was provided by Reynolds on the last lap when he cleaned out Hunter Yoder for the ninth and final transfer position.
Red plate holder Cooper Webb crashed early after cross rutting entering the whoops and misaligned his handlebars.
Halfway through the session, Ken Roczen was the first rider to post a time under 49 seconds.
Webb and his crew seem to have fixed his handlebars, and he jumped to second briefly before Chase Sexton knocked him back a position with one minute and 30 seconds on the clock.
Roczen (48.728), Sexton (48.784), and Webb (48.920) remained in the top three.
Fourth-place Jason Anderson (49.024) and Malcolm Stewart (49.094) rounded out the top five.
Times have leveled out in Qualification 2, with Seth Hammaker, Tom Vialle, and Austin Forkner dipping below the 50-second range in the first half of the session.
RJ Hampshire tipped over in the sand.
Hammaker (49.288) held on to the top spot.
Max Anstie (49.946) joined the sub-50-second riders with Vialle landing third (49.956).
Fourth-place Forkner (49.962) gave the East division more riders under 50 seconds than the West experienced.
RJ Hampshire (50.361) rounded out the top five.
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Cole Davies crashed in the first qualification session and went down again on the first lap of Qualification 2 after getting the mock holeshot.
Haiden Deegan dipped below the 50-second bracket on his first lap.
On Lap 6, Davies overcame his early fall and also cracked the 50-second mark.
Deegan (49.044) held on till the end with Davies (49.617) remaining the only other rider under 50.
Julien Beaumer (50.164) took the third position.
Fourth-place Jo Shimoda (50.200) and Garrett Marchbanks (50.214) rounded out the top five.
Malcolm Stewart was the only rider below the 49-second mark with a lap of 48.767 in this session.
Three riders were in the 49-second bracket, with Ken Roczen (49.059) leading third-place Chase Sexton (49.841) and Cooper Webb (49.856) in fourth.
Dylan Ferrandis (50.350) rounded out the top five.
Dark horse Justin Barcia (50.406) narrowly missed that mark in sixth.
Haiden Deegan is out to prove the West is best with a lap of 49.530 in Qualification 1.
He topped Cole Davies (50.475) by nearly a second.
Second in West points, Julien Beaumer (50.961) landed third on the chart.
Fourth-place Jo Shimoda (50.980) and Coty Schock (51.974) rounded out the top five.
Coming off his first podium of the year in Arlington, Michael Mosiman 52.018) was just outside that mark in sixth.
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Chance Hymas (50.333) set the fastest lap on his final trip around the track for the 250 East riders. He narrowly edged Austin Forkner (50.439), who also waited until the end to post his fast lap.
RJ Hampshire (50.530) landed third on the chart. Hampshire posted his fastest lap with two laps remaining.
Fourth-place Seth Hammaker (50.822) and Maximus Vohland (50.8762) rounded out the top five.
Preston Boespflug crashed in 250 East Qualification 1, was run over by another rider, and was carted off track by the Alpinestars Medical crew.
Carson Mumford (50.893) was leading Maximus Vohland (50.980) at the time of the incident.
Jett Lawrence was on hand for sponsor obligations and to watch the racing, so he stopped by the media center.
Looking none the worse for wear despite his torn ACL, he confirmed he is still hoping to return to action in time for the Pro Motocross season.
“With the machines and equipment we have these days, it’s realistic,” he told NBC Sports.
Malcolm Stewart set the early pace with a lap of (49.893).
Chase Sexton (49.923) will need to avoid the mistakes that plagued him in the last two weeks. He was second, but the red plate holder, Cooper Webb (50.308), was not far behind.
Fourth-place Jason Anderson (51.490) and Justin Cooper (52.062) rounded out the top five.
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Last week’s 250 East winner in Daytona, RJ Hampshire, wants to be the first rider on his coast to win two races. His fastest lap of 51.211 seconds was half a second better than Carson Mumford (51.741) in the battle to earn the most points among these riders, but it is a second slower than Deegan in the West.
Seth Hammaker (52.028) was on the podium last week. He landed third on the chart in practice.
Fourth-place Daxton Bennick (52.029) and Cullin Park (52.385) rounded out the top five.
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Haiden Deegan led the West riders in an attempt to add to their advantage in the East / West tally. His lap of 49.249 was nearly a second faster than Jo Shimoda (50.210).
Cole Davies (50.704) landed third on the chart on his Yamaha.
Julien Beaumer (50.774) and Michael Mosiman (50.816) rounded out the top five.
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In overflow practice for the 250 division, Bryce Shelly (52.731) paced the field ahead of Brandon Ray (53.191) and Dominique Thury (54.043)
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