2025 Monster Energy Supercross Recap - Seattle

It was about a year ago in Seattle, Washington, where we got the best Supercross battle of the year- a war, quite frankly, between Cooper Webb and Chase Sexton in which the current series points leader hung on to win just barely after a near last-second miscue coming out of the whoops. A trip around the sun later, the 450 Supercross Championship effectively is just those two riders now. Sexton picked up a gigantic win a week ago in Birmingham, Alabama, to cut Webb's points lead in half with just over a half dozen rounds to go, and with momentum clearly back on his side, had the chance to really make things interesting going into this upcoming Northeast Corridor Swing.

With the 250 West Championship back for a weekend meanwhile, this was the first time Haiden Deegan has raced since his arrest last weekend, and what should come to the surprise of no one, had prision outfit Thor gear all set, as well as as vlog content from that weekend a crisp 72 hours after the fact. How does the saying go again? The Devil works hard, but K̶r̶i̶s̶ ̶J̶e̶n̶n̶e̶r̶ Brian Deegan works harder? In any event, he's not out of the woods just yet when it comes to the 250 West Championship. Deegan only led KTM rival Julien Beaumer by a dozen points coming into the PNW, and he was the only 250 rider to run within .300 seconds of Deegan in qualifying. How much separation could he garner before the season's final three rounds?

Daytime Program/Injury Notes: 

- When I said I didn't want tracks producing 50-second lap times, I didn't mean make them even quicker. (Spoiler: I'm glad this Saturday afternoon note aged as badly as it did)

- It certainly sounds like Dean Wilson will be doing some rounds for Honda HRC on the 450. Expect a formal announcement on Tuesday.

- Monster Energy Kawasaki's Jason Anderson was a late scratch with what was described as "a family emergency."

- 250 Fastest Qualifier: No. 38 Haiden Deegan (46.993)

- 450 Fastest Qualifier: No. 32 Justin Cooper (46.889)

250 Class Recap

1st - No. 100 Cole Davies (Monster Energy Star Racing Yamaha)

I think I've said this all season, but Cole Davies is already "a guy" in this 250 class, and he finally got everything to fall into place on a very tough track. Five minutes in, this was all but a race for second because that's how far the No. 100 was out front. Deegan was the only guy who could match or beat Davies' speed looking at the lap charts, but of course, he was playing catch-up the entire time, and Davies was more or less managing things as things got closer to the end. Excited to see if he can notch another win or two before the year is out; he's certainly capable.

3rd - No. 38 Haiden Deegan (Monster Energy Star Racing Yamaha)

I can't even really get into the good Deegan did in this race, getting into a podium position with his early race mishaps, over how unfathomably stupid he is. He claims that he did what he did to pass Beaumer because he "doxxed him" in a troll Instagram story because he posted his full arrest record, which is on public record via the Sheriff's Department that booked him, address included. Firstly, it's not doxxing to post someone's full arrest report by the letter of the law if it's on the public record. Guess they didn't go over that in "The General's" Home School program. Secondly, and just hear me out here, how about just not getting arrested for objectively being an idiot and running the risk of your address hitting the public record, especially as a public figure? He's within his rights to not like what Beaumer did, that's fine, but this was a situation that Deegan had complete agency over and was entirely preventable at that, so it's hard to feel bad for him at all.

More importantly, of ALL PEOPLE to get in their feelings over social media trolling, when you decided to go to a club with an injured Chance Hymas on your mind to troll him while you were 50-plus points up on him last summer. Not that these were areas I thought of him in high regard anyway, but you have to question his non-Racing-IQ and self-awareness a lot after this.

As far as the pass on Beaumer goes, I thought it was a bit over the line since it felt like he made no honest attempt even to make the corner, but it wasn't anywhere near as egregious as what he did last year to Coty Schock at Birmingham. In conclusion, it is what it is: play on. Time will tell if any of this blows up in his face, but for now, he has a great points situation to play with going into Philly, but a clear target on his back. Also, just for the record, I don't love anyone getting fined here.

4th - No. 23 Julien Beaumer (Red Bull KTM)

Even factoring in the injury Beaumer has been dealing with for a little while now, this was not a time to allow a late-race fade to happen in this Championship. Additionally, while Deegan took some liberties on that pass to seal up third, you cannot open the door up inside in that kind of situation under any circumstances. We saw many passes happen there with guys forcing inside, and that, while aggressive, was ultimately no different in the grand scheme. Philly is Beaumer's last shot to make this interesting before Denver and SLC, and for his sake, he better capitalize by any means.

8th - No. 37 Coty Schock (Muc-Off/FXR/ClubMX Yamaha)

Schock felt all but assured a podium on a night where he had a leg up on just about everyone not named Cole Davies because of his success blitzing the whoops. Of course, a bad rut took him not only out of the top three but the top five as well, but give credit where it's due in that Schock kept further damage to a minimum and brought it home still. Fifth in points with a nine-point buffer on both sixth and seventh now, in case you were wondering, so it's still a great season here.

12th - No. 19 Jordon Smith (Triumph Factory Racing)

Saturday is what we like to call a "burn the tape" day for Smith and Triumph. This happening in the heat races should've been the clear-cut sign that this wasn't their night.

250 West Class Seattle Top 10 and Points Standings

450 Class Recap

1st - No. 2 Cooper Webb (Monster Energy Star Racing Yamaha)

I don't want to call this a 100 percent carbon copy of 2024 with Webb and Sexton, but this was extremely similarsimilar in all the best ways; it was simply a tremendous race. One thing I can for sure say is that this final corner should be used in riding schools from sea to shining sea until the embers in the sun burn out. Textbook inside corner hug coming to the checkered. This an all-timer in his element and he's not missing 9 times out of 10.

2nd - No. 4 Chase Sexton (Red Bull KTM)

This wasn't the worst loss of Sexton's season, but a six-point swing coming off the heels of a massive triple crown win wasn't exactly ideal for his title hopes. If for nothing else, though, I didn't tune out of this broadcast (which didn't want to cooperate in crunch time, which wasn't appreciated), feeling super down on Sexton as I did after Arlington, for instance. He's still in this, but trading wins does him no good.

4th - No. 94 Ken Roczen (HEP Progressive/Ecstar Suzuki)

Even with the shoulder injury, Roczen still showed off some exceptional early race pace here to almost land home with a podium and even put the ixnay on a Cooper Webb charge with some crafty defensive riding. Just looking at the lap times, though, it was clear that Roczen had just about used up most of the gas tank by the halfway mark. He wasn't close to the pace of those top two at any point after, but give him credit for sticking with it.

5th - No. 14 Dylan Ferrandis (Phoenix Honda)

Not to be forgetten among all the headlines with Webb, Sexton, Roczen, Cooper, etc, how about Ferrandis putting up his best finish since Anaheim 1 of 2024? It's been pretty rough on the whole for the ex-MX Champion, with just four top 10s coming into the weekend, but this had to feel really good with all of the 11ths-16ths mixed in this year.

450 Class Seattle Top 10 and Points Standings

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