Ken Roczen received his first premier class AMA Supercross championship on the 2026 season finale in Salt Lake Metropolis, ending his title combat with Hunter Lawrence.
Going into the ultimate spherical, the 2 title contenders had been separated by one level in Roczen’s favor, making it basically a “winner-takes-all” situation between the 2.
It was Lawrence who took the holeshot in the beginning, however Roczen shortly took the lead and went into the whoop going into flip two.
From there, Lawrence sat comfortably in second place for the primary 5 minutes, by no means greater than a second behind Roczen.
However then Lawrence’s depth elevated as Jorge Prado got here from behind. At first he was closing the hole with Roczen, however went off track on the bowl flip after the mechanics space. The Prado subsequently had a rear wheel and Lawrence compounded the issue by crashing simply seconds after his first mistake on the bowl flip earlier than the whoop, the identical nook the place he had misplaced the lead in the beginning.
Lawrence had fallen again to seventh place at that time, and had it not been for Roczen’s mistake, his possibilities for the title had been gone.
These errors by no means occurred, permitting the German to drop to fifth place on the penultimate lap to keep away from late-game drama. With Lawrence nonetheless in seventh place, that was sufficient for the Suzuki rider to win the 2026 AMA Supercross 450SX title.
As Roczen fell again contemplating the championship standings, Chase Sexton took the lead, and the 2023 champion earned his second win in his debut season with Kawasaki and his fourth straight win in Salt Lake Metropolis.
Sexton completed on the rostrum forward of Justin Cooper and Jorge Prado, with Cooper Webb being the final rider handed by Roczen on the penultimate lap.
Justin Hill completed one spot behind Roczen in sixth place and one spot forward of Lawrence in seventh place.
Malcolm Stewart, Christian Craig and Dean Wilson rounded out the highest ten.
Eli Tomac was unable to start out the primary occasion after crashing within the second flip of his warmth race, forcing him to withdraw from the occasion.
250SX: Davis defeats Deegan to win closing showdown
Within the 250SX East-West showdown held in Salt Lake Metropolis, Cole Davis defeated Hayden Deegan to win after a fierce mid-race battle.
It was Max Anstey who took the holeshot, however was shortly handed by Deegan, then by Davis.
There have been two seconds separating the 2 2026 regional champions when Davis made his transfer, however a mistake by Deegan within the whoop meant the New Zealander took the wheel of Deegan.
A couple of laps of tailing his teammates ended when Davis moved to the entrance within the second of the switchback bowl turns throughout the beginning straight.
There was minor contact and Deegan misplaced a number of seconds of time, however was in a position to catch as much as Davis inside a number of laps.
Deegan tried to make an aggressive move inside on the primary bowl flip after the switchback part, however made contact and fell. He shortly remounted his horse, however fell once more within the sand flip on the finish of the whoop, dropping him to fourth place.
Deegan’s crash ended the battle for the lead, permitting Davis to take his first showdown win of the season. Levi Kitchen and Max Anstie accomplished the rostrum.
Deegan took 4th place and Ryder DiFrancesco handed the LCQ to complete within the high 5.
Max Volland, Derek Kelly, Hunter Yoder, Landon Gordon and Henry Miller completed within the high 10 within the closing 250SX race of the yr.
