HOUSTON, Texas: In a back-and-forth Triple Crown in NRG Stadium, Cooper Webb finished fourth in the first feature, second in Feature 2 and third in Feature 3 to score his first overall victory of 2026.
“It was just a very emotional,” Webb said in the post-race media scrum. “It’s been an emotional month for sure, but this week was tough. Last week was just a hard one. You get to three bad weekends in a row and it can take a toll on you. So tonight is just the complete opposite. I feel like a kid again, just to have that feeling of winning.”
And it almost didn’t happen. Webb scrubbed a jump early in the first race and was propelled off track. He kept control of his bike and dropped only to sixth in the running order before recovering to score the top-five finish in that feature.
Hunter Lawrence came up one position shy of his first win and scored his third consecutive second-place finish. Lawrence also had his worst outing in the first race with a finish of seventh. He bounced back to win the second feature and finished second in Feature 3 for second overall.
Ken Roczen tied Lawrence in points to finish third overall after losing the tie breaker. Roczen won the first feature and had high expectations for the next two races. His starts were not optimal in those features and he finished fifth and fourth in them for third overall.
Tomac crashed in the second feature, but salvaged enough points with a victory in Feature 3 to earn fourth-place points. His victory in the final feature and third-place finish in Race 1 was enough to salvage the points needed to hold onto the red plate by four over Lawrence.
Feature 3
Webb led the 450 division into the final feature of the Triple Crown with finishes of fourth and second. Roczen was second (1-5) with Lawrence third (7-1) at the gate drop.
Sexton (2-9) was fifth and Tomac (3-13) a distant ninth entering the race. Both riders hit the ground in Feature 2.
Tomac earned the holeshot with Lawrence close behind.
Jason Anderson took second from Lawrence later in the lap.
Webb cased the finish line jump and fell to ninth early in the race.
Tomac bobbled and handed the lead to Anderson. Lawrence gets second soon after.
In a see-saw affair, it didn’t take long for Tomac to get back into second.
Roczen in fourth had the points to take the overall.
Sexton was posted fifth on Lap 5.
Tomac grabbed the lead a second time on Lap 6.
On Lap 7, Lawrence took second; Sexton grabbed third.
As they ran, Lawrence had the overall points lead on Lap 8. Lawrence also had the championship points lead at the time, but as he slipped, that lead evaporated
Webb took third on Lap 10 and was now the overall leader.
Lawrence was second with Webb third.
Fourth-place Roczen and Anderson rounded out the top five.
Feature 2
Jorge Prado earned the holeshot while Tomac got a poor start in back-to-back features. He was only 10th halfway through Lap 1.
Sexton was worse, completing the first lap in 14th.
Lawrence settled into second with Anderson third.
Tomac was up to seventh with nine minutes on the clock.
Cooper Webb took third from Anderson.
On Lap 4, Tomac took sixth from Roczen.
Tomac endoed on Lap 6 and fell all the way to 19th. The bike landed on him.
The top three at that part of the race, were Prado, Lawrence, and Webb.
With three minutes on the clock, Lawrence passed Prado for the lead.
Webb remained third.
Tomac moved up to 15th after his crash.
Sexton crashed with one minute, 30 seconds on the clock. He fell to ninth.
Roczen challenged Justin Cooper for fourth as time ran off the clock. That was the position he needed to have the overall lead as they ran.
Lawrence won Feature 2 by 2.114 seconds over Webb.
Prado took the final podium position.
Cooper in fourth and Roczen rounded out the top five.
Tomac recovered to finish 13th only.
Feature 1
Roczen earned the holeshot with Prado and Sexton giving chase.
Tomac got a poor start in ninth.
Lawrence and Webb rounded out the top five.
Tomac had problems getting around Anderson last week and the same was true in Houston. He finally completed the pass up to fifth with seven minutes on the clock.
Sexton got around Prado one lap later.
With five minutes on the clock, Sexton caught Roczen. Tomac challenged Webb.
Tomac took fifth and still had a shot at the overall. Prado was next in this sights.
Tomac to fourth with a little less than two minutes remaining.
Lawrence rode off course and handed third to Tomac. Lawrence fell to seventh.
Roczen held on for the victory over Sexton.
Tomac battled back to third and still had a shot at the overall.
Fourth-place Webb and Prado were also in the hunt.
