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2025 East Rutherford Supercross Research

By Brett Smith

Round 14: Giants and Jets Nation

We’re racing in East Rutherford for the first time since 2023. Notables:

  • Another NBC Network event! opening ceremonies at 2:30 p.m. EDT, gate drop at 3:00 p.m.
  • This will be the 12th Supercross in East Rutherford. Eight different riders have won the most recent 8 races.
  • 2023 450SX: Justin Barcia lapped through 5th place in a wet one. It was his 6th (and most recent) win.
  • 2023: 250SX: Max Anstie won his first career 250SX main (on the Fire Power Honda team – now Quadlock).
  • Remember: 2023 had the 90-minute lightning delay and was the race where RJ Hampshire slid 100-ft. in a hail-Mary final corner attempt on Jett Lawrence
  • Click for >>> 2023 Extended Highlights
  • April 19 is the earliest East Rutherford has ever been held. It was also Round 14 in 2023 (Apr. 22)
E. RUTHERFORD RESULTS HISTORY

Fun Facts

Pulled from the research below, here are some tasty nuggets we thought you might find interesting:

  • Chase Sexton got the first “Supercross Sweep” (fastest qualifier, heat win, main event win) of the 2025 season (more below).
  • James Stewart completed the “Supercross Sweep” 7 consecutive times in 2009 (Rounds 2-8). He beat his competition outright 21 straight times he entered the track!
  • Fastest rider to the most podiums – Chad Reed made it to 87 podiums in 102 starts. It took Ricky Carmichael 115 starts and Jeremy McGrath 118 starts to reach 87 podiums (more below).
  • Don’t look now, but Cooper Webb has quietly climbed into the top 10 all-time in key statistical categories. He passed Justin Barica for 9th all-time points last week. He’s also just 2 podiums shy of tying James Stewart and Kevin Windham for 8th all-time. And he’s ranked 8th all-time in wins.
  • Aaron Plessinger has led laps in 4 main events this season – that double his career total!
  • Philadelphia 250 E/W Showdown featured 19 of the top 22 riders in the points standings. 3 riders (Lopes, Towers, Munoz) outside the top 11 from either region made the main. Great to watch the best in class go head-to-head.
2025 Philadelphia 450SX main event start. Photo: Garth Milan

Sexton’s Destiny.

Chase Sexton can control his own destiny in this championship. But he’s going to have to do something that’s only been accomplished 6 times in the last 20 years (and only 16 times in 50 years): five consecutive wins.

Four to go.

Most Recent Win Streaks of 5+

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  • If Sexton wins out and Cooper Webb finishes second each race, they would end in a tie. Sexton wins the title on victories.
  • Not a single rider has even won three in a row this season. The last time no rider won three straight races was in 2020.
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Supercross Sweeps

In Philadelphia, Chase Sexton earned his 28th career Fastest Qualifier, 24th heat race win and 13th career 450SX main event victory.

That hat trick made up the first 450 “Supercross Sweep” of 2025.

The last rider to do it? Chase Sexton: Salt Lake City 2024. He also did it three times in 2023.

In recorded history (2003 to present day), it’s happened 97 times in 481 premier class main events (excludes triple crown events).

James Stewart swept qualifying, heat and main event 35 times in his 450SX career. Photo: Frank Hoppen

20% (or 1 in 5 races) seems like a lot until you realize that James Stewart singlehandedly accounts for 35 of the 97 times (nearly one-third) of the times it’s happened since 2003!

All told, Sexton is 1 of 7 riders with 5 or more “Supercross Sweeps”.

And let’s all agree, Jeremy McGrath would be high on this list (and Ricky Carmichael, higher than he already is) if Fastest Qualifiers had been recorded pre-2003.

All-Time Supercross Sweeps

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Over the past 5 seasons, Chase Sexton has the most Supercross Sweeps. Photo: Garth Milan
Notable
  • James Stewart completed the sweep 11x in his 2007 and 2009 championship seasons!
    • James swept 7 rounds in a row in 2009 – Rd 2 Glendale to Rd 8 Atlanta.
    • James swept 6 rounds in a row in 2007 – Rd 11 Orlando to Rd 16 Las Vegas!
    • To put these consecutive sweeps into perspective: We haven’t seen more than 5 sweeps in a season since 2010.
  • Chad Reed completed the sweep 7x in his 2004 championship season alone.
  • Ricky Carmichael completed the sweep 6x in his 2005 championship season, including 4 rounds in a row (Rd 2 Glendale to Rd 5 Anaheim 2)

All-Time Podiums

After leading 14 of 25 laps in Philadelphia Ken Roczen was vocal about how disappointed he was in his limited ability to perform (ankle/shoulder).

But that makes his 76th career 450SX podium finish all the more impressive. Roczen is now 7th all-time in top three finishes.

With 3rd in Philadelphia, Ken Roczen scored his 76th career 450SX podium. Photo: Garth Milan
  • He has now passed James Stewart and Kevin Windham for 7th most podiums all-time.
  • He did it in his 160th start, 45 fewer than Windham (205 starts), 45 more than Stewart (115 starts).
  • Roczen may be frustrated to be finishing third but his 76 podiums is something to celebrate. With the exception of Carmichael (who podiumed what was pre-determined as his final race), none of the riders on this list below would have said ‘this is my last ever Supercross podium’ when it happened.
All-Time Podiums

Column 4 is the # of starts it took to get their podium count

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  • Two-thirds of James Stewart’s podiums were wins
  • Dungey, Stewart and Tomac* all got their final podium with a win.

Rider of the Week: Justin Cooper

Cold Spring Harbor’s (Long Island) Justin Cooper is making his East Rutherford debut on a 450.

  • As the crow flies, Cold Spring Harbor is 33 miles to the east.
  • He has one 250 appearance, 2019, 3rd.
  • He currently sits 5th in the points just -1 behind Malcolm Stewart.
  • 2025: He got his second career podium (2nd place) in Indianapolis, but has not finished inside the top 5 since (4 rounds of 6-6-11-6 place finishes).
Justin Cooper battles Chase Sexton at the 2025 Philadelphia Supercross. Photo: Octopi
  • 2025: He has been fastest qualifier once (Seattle), won a heat race (Seattle), and even won an LCQ (Anaheim 2). The last thing for him to do is win a main event and become the 8th rider to do so this season.
  • Cooper’s weakness has been poor main event gate picks (AKA, heat race finishes…) among riders with 10 or more starts…
    • He’s the 4th best qualifier this season. He’s got the speed!
    • He’s averaging 5th in heat races so he averages 10th gate pick.
    • Remember, gate position 4-10 has now accounted for 80% (16 of 20) of holeshots and 70% (14 of 20) of wins this season (including Triple Crown races)
    • He’s only been in gate position 4-10 in 11 of 20 starts this season.
  • All that said, he has 4 holeshots this season, tied with Aaron Plessinger for most of all riders.
Justin Cooper 450SX Box Score

Crunch Time: 250SX East

The 250 East division started with 6 different winners in 6 rounds – incredible depth of competition.

So it’s no surprise that RJ Hampshire finishing 3rd at last weekend’s East/West Showdown (top finishing East division rider) – and now sharing the red plate with Seth Hammaker – means we’ve now had 4 different red plate holder in the series.

This is the second year in a row that the East has seen four different points leaders.

2025 250SX East Red Plate Holder by Round

Four different red plate holders in the 250 East division ties 2nd most all-time. Only once in history have we seen five. That was the 1987 West division (Matiasevich, Matson, Hicks, Naughton, Surratt).

Seth Hammaker at the 2025 Philadelphia Supercross. Photo: Octopi
Most Unique 250SX Single Season Red Plate Holders

Regardless of how many winners or red plate holders we’ve had in the series, the most interesting thing is the championship battle. We have 3 riders – RJ Hampshire, Seth Hammaker, Tom Vialle – separated by 2 points.

  • RJ Hampshire is the reigning 250 West division champion. Remember, he entered the final round of last year’s West division title finale TIED with Levi Kitchen. RJ’s had the best speed in the mains (2x fastest lap), led 3 mains (series most), and has 4 podiums (series most). Tough to bet against him.
  • Tom Vialle is your reigning 250 East division champion. He won 2 times in 2024 (Daytona and Birmingham) en route to his first AMA championship to go with his 2 MX2 titles. Tom’s series leading start position (avg. 5.0) has kept him in this championship.
  • Seth Hammaker has arguably been the best in class, but a few small mistakes (crash in Birmingham, in particular) have kept him from building a championship lead. This would be the first for Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki since Justin Hill, 2017.

Milestones

450 Milestones
  • Cooper Webb (2,632) passed Justin Barcia (2,629) for 9th all-time in 450SX points scored. Webb is 107 points behind Jason Anderson.
  • Cooper Webb now has 73 podiums (10th all-time). With 4 rounds left in the season, he’s 2 behind James Stewart, Ken Roczen and Kevin Windham (75).
  • If Kyle Chisholm (180) qualifies out (final 4 rounds), he will tie Eli Tomac (184) for 7th on the all-time 450SX starts list.
250 Milestones
  • RJ Hampshire has 25 podium finishes (6th all-time). One more and he’s in a three-way tie for 4th with Shane McElrath and Martin Davalos.
  • RJ Hampshire is 32 points away from second place (Barry Carsten) on the all-time 250SX most points scored list.
  • RJ Hampshire currently has 73 250SX main event starts. One more and he creates a 4-way tie for 10th on the all-time 250SX starts list. Jordon Smith, Mike Brown and Kelly Smith all have 74.
  • Austin Forkner (13) is in a multi-way tie for 3rd on the all-time most 250SX wins list. A 14th win would give him sole possession of 3rd.