Aaron Plessinger earned the holeshot and rode away from the field in heavy mud to become the seventh winner of the 2025 season at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
This was the first time Supercross has featured seven winners since 1997.
“When I got up on the start, I had [Cooper Webb] to the right of me and [Justin Cooper] in front of me, when they slowed down to go through the ruts I just stood up on the pegs and leaned back and pinned it,” Plessinger told NBC Sports Will Christien on Peacock. " When I had the lead, I knew I just needed to go and stand up.”
This was Plessinger’s second career win after last year’s debut victory in San Diego, which was on another muddy track.
“San Diego was a little muddy; this was a whole different breed,” Plessinger said in post race.
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Shane McElrath challenged for the lead early and settled into second for his first career podium.
“This week was a really good week mentally,” McElrath told Jason Thomas. “Tonight was all about opportunity. I was up on the line, and I was praying, like ‘God just give me traction. That’s all I want on the gate’.”
Remarkably, Cooper Webb survived multiple crashes to take the final podium position. He trailed points challenger Chase Sexton for most of the race, but in a chaotic final lap, he passed Sexton, Ken Roczen, and Justin Barcia when those riders went down.
“In these kinds of conditions, you don’t know what can happen,” Webb said. “It’s so stressful when you’re leading the championship. You’re hoping your motorcycle makes it first of all. Even just getting into the main, you’re like ‘I can breathe a little bit’. These are truly bummer conditions. I don’t think anyone wants to race in them, unless you’re AP maybe.”
Roczen recovered to finish fourth, and Barcia landed fifth.
Roczen filed a protest alleging Webb jumped on a red cross flag on the final lap. In the post-race news conference, Webb acknowledged the incident but said he was committed to the jump when the light came on.
Sexton dropped outside the top five and finished three positions behind Webb. Sexton was the final rider to finish on the lead lap. Sexton trails Webb by 15 points with five rounds remaining.
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Chance Hymas survived the eight-minute-plus-one-lap feature in Foxborough to become the sixth winner in the 250 East division and the 11th 250 rider across both divisions to win.
“This means so much to me,” Hymas said after the race. “We’ve been working our butts off to get here. I took a step back this week to try and appreciate where I’m at. I wasn’t even planning on racing Tampa with my knee, and just to be in this position — I know it’s a completely different circumstances — but to finish first you’ve got to finish first.”
Hymas rode a cautious pace and refused to be pushed out of his comfort zone. He took the lead from holeshot winner Dayton Briggs when that rider leaned over too far and crashed. From there, it was simply a matter of keeping the bike upright.
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Mud races are a great opportunity for dark horses to frolic. Cullin Park finished 32 seconds behind Hymas in second.
“I was getting a little too excited there with two laps to go,” Park said. “There’s something about Foxborough and ripping some good starts.”
Gage Linville rounded out the podium and did mud angels on the track.
Fourth-place Justin Rodbell and Daxton Bennick rounded out the top five. Bennick was the last rider to finish on the lead lap.
Points leader Tom Vialle and challengers Seth Hammaker and RJ Hampshire were notably missing from the front of the pack.
Vialle worked his way into a top-five contending position before multiple crashes relegated him to last in the rundown. Hammaker finished ninth, but that was enough to give him a piece of the points lead.
Hampshire finished 15th. He is now three points behind the leaders.
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Heavy rain headed for Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, which forced changes to the Monster Energy Supercross series schedule.
Free Practice was canceled Friday night. On Saturday, the series eliminated one of the two qualification sessions.
One of the biggest news items this week was the announcement that Jason Anderson will skip the remaining six rounds of supercross for ‘ongoing health concerns’.
Justin Barcia was fastest in qualification. He opened the week with a betting line of +2618 with NXTbets.com and could be a great dark horse. Remember what he said in Indianapolis: ‘When I go and finally do it, someone’s going to make a lot of money’.
After the heats, Supercross announced the 250 and 450 heats would be shortened by five minutes.
On further reflection, the series trimmed the features again. The 250 race will be eight minutes plus a lap; the 450 riders must endure 12 minutes plus one lap.
Justin Cooper narrowly got the holeshot over Shane McElrath.
Aaron Plessinger is good in the mud. He took second from McElrath at the end of Lap 1.
Plessinger gets the top spot on Lap 2.
Cooper Webb crashes from sixth on Lap 2. He was leading Chase Sexton at the time, but dropped to ninth with the incident. Sexton was fourth.
Sexton jumped over a downed rider, but the lights had just come out.
Justin Barcia crashed out of third on Lap 4. That moves Sexton into a podium position with Webb three spots back.
Then Sexton crashed on Lap 5 on the face of a jump, and he got hung up badly, but with so many riders having trouble, he lost only two positions.
Webb is smoking badly with less than a minute on the clock.
Plessinger survived to win by more than 26 seconds over McElrath.
Webb passed Ken Roczen on the final lap, giving Webb the final spot on the podium. Roczen protested the pass, alleging Webb jumped on a red cross flag.
Justin Barcia rounded out the top five.
In ninth, Logan Leitzel scored his first top-10 finish in his first feature.
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RJ Hampshire crashed hard in Turn 1 and collected Seth Hammaker. This is going to hurt in the points with this race now only eight laps.
Mud races are opportunity races, and Dayton Briggs led Chance Hymas at the conclusion of Lap 1.
Briggs and Hymas were taking it easy, but Briggs lost the front wheel and went down.
That handed the lead to Hymas, with Cullin Park and Trevor Colip rounding out the podium positions.
Hampshire crashed again on Lap 3, and getting his heavy bike upright took a long time.
Vialle went down on Lap 4. He dropped from fifth to 12th.
Chance Hymas survived the mud to become the sixth winner in the 250 East and the 11th winner in 12 class rounds.
Cullin Park finished second with Gage Linville rounding out the podium.
Notably, Tom Vialle’s accidents dropped him to 22nd while RJ Hampshire struggled to finish 15th.
Jeremy Hand beats Kyle Chisholm to the line by 17 seconds.
Anthony Rodriguez and Bubba Pauli also advanced to the main.
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In the 250 division, Crockett Myers beat Ayden Shive to the line by 39 seconds.
Nate Thrasher was another three seconds behind in third with Vinny Luhovey completing the lineup.
Austin Forkner missed the feature by one position. He finished fifth.
Shane McElrath earned the holeshot and had to deal with Justin Cooper in the first set of turns.
Cooper fell back drastically and was outside the top nine at the end of Lap 1.
That moved Ken Roczen to second and Aaron Plessinger to third.
Justin Barcia crashed and fell to 13th.
Roczen went down from third as time ran off the clock.
McElrath won his first heat race.
Plessinger finished more than 17 seconds behind in second.
Dylan Ferrandis took the final spot on the box in third.
Fourth-place Benny Bloss and Roczen rounded out the top five.
Chase Sexton earned the holeshot with Cooper Webb close behind in Turn 1, but Sexton immediately stretched his advantage to 10 seconds at the end of Lap 1.
Sexton stalled in the mud with two minutes remaining on the clock; he still had a 16-second lead at the start of Lap 3.
Tristan Lane fell from fourth.
Sexton won by a massive margin of 32 seconds.
Cooper Webb had a good gate pick after finishing second.
Mitchell Oldenburg took the last spot on the podium.
Fourth-place Colt Nichols and Grant Harlan rounded out the top five.
Justin Starling, Kevin Moranz, and Lane recovered to advance.
Malcolm Stewart’s transponder went out but he finished among the top nine.
Sexton was penalized two positions for jumping on the red cross flag, and hand scoring put Malcolm Stewart into second.
Tom Vialle got the holeshot.
Riding in the top five, Austin Forkner stalled in a bowl turn and collected Nate Thrasher. They took a while to get their bikes out of the mud. It will be difficult for them to get back into the top nine.
Vialle stalled in the mud, which allowed Seth Hammaker to catch him. They swapped the lead briefly, but Hammaker hit the ground when Vialle cut him off.
Thrasher fell a second time and decided to head back to the pits. He will need to advance through the LCQ.
Vialle won by five seconds over Hammaker.
Chance Hymas took the final podium position.
Fourth-place Mark Fineis and Lance Kobusch rounded out the top five.
Gage Linville (sixth), Cullin Park (seventh), Ricci Randanella (eighth), and Trevor Colip (ninth) also advanced directly to the main.
Forkner climbed to 12th, but he must join Thrasher in the LCQ.
Maximus Vohland got the holeshot as riders went down behind him.
On Lap 1, RJ Hampshire tucks his front tire while running third. He dropped to seventh.
Vohland can relax as time runs down with a 26-second lead over Dayton Briggs. Henry Miller rounded out the top three.
Vohland scored the victory by more than 33 seconds over Miller. Briggs rounded out the podium.
Hampshire made his way back to fourth and will have a better gate pick than he expected at the time of his fall.
Justin Rodbell (fifth), Jack Chambers (sixth), Hamden Hudson (seventh), Preston Taylor (eighth) and Daxton Bennick (ninth) also advanced directly into the feature.
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Aaron Plessinger got the mock holeshot, but riders behind him closed the gap on that first lap.
Justin Barcia is known as a great mud racer. He posted the fastest lap in the only qualification session for the 450s with a 1:14.827.
Chase Sexton (1:15.420) sat atop the board for most of the session before sliding to second. Aaron Plessinger (1:16.365) rounded out the top three.
Fourth-place Cooper Webb (1:16.448) and Dylan Ferrandis (1:17.175) complete the top five.
In his return to racing, Joey Savatgy (1:18.529) was 10th.
Heavy rains turned this into a mudder. Only the strong will survive.
With his new Partzilla ride, Mark Fineis had difficulty getting his bike started but he still got the holeshot and posted the fastest time of this session with a 1:11.762. The track was rapidly deteriorating, so the Group B riders would finish well up the chart.
Tom Vialle got the holeshot in the mock start. He wanted to keep his bike as clean as possible in this session. But that plan didn’t work. Vialle crashed off the side of a tall jump. He refused to let go of his handlebars to keep the palms of his gloves from getting muddy.
Seth Hammaker (1:18.281) ended the Group A session on top, but that time is only ninth-best overall.
Nate Thrasher (1:19.376) landed second on the chart as RJ Hampshire (1:19.489) rounded out the top three.
Fourth-place Lance Kobusch (1:20.817) and Maximus Vohland (1:22.220) completed the top five.
Chance Hymas (1:23.586) finished the session eight.
Tom Vialle (128.474) was 11th and Austin Forkner (1:30.188) 14th. Forkner’s time put him closer to the bubble than he would have wanted. He landed 35th on the combined list.
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