2025 Foxborough Supercross Research
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Round 12: The Northeast Tour Begins!
Foxborough, Massachusetts kicks off the Northeast tour with round 12 of the Monster Energy Supercross Championship.
- 6 different riders have won the 7 Foxborough Supercrosses and David Bailey (pictured above) is still the all-time leader in the ‘boro.
- It’s the 8th running of the Foxborough Supercross.
- April 5 is the earliest a Foxborough round has ever been held (April 13 in 2024)
- This will be the first time Foxborough has held rounds in back to back seasons since 1983-1984.
Cooper Webb’s Winning Ways
Over one third of Cooper Webb’s wins are by margins of less than one second. Webb’s win over Chase Sexton in Seattle (again) by less than one second (again) was his 12th career victory by a margin under one second; he loves to cut it close.
He’s been doing it since the very first victory. In 2019, when he won Triple Crown Race 1 at Anaheim 2, he beat Ken Roczen by +0.549. He won the overall with 1-1-3 scores.
Six years later, Webb has eeked out 12 such victories (incl. ind. TC Race wins)
How does that stack with his contemporaries?
Wins* vs. Win Margins
*This chart includes individual Triple Crown Race Wins.
- Cooper Webb wins 35% of his races (12 of 34) by less than a second.
- Webb’s average margin of victory across all 34 wins is 2.4 seconds
- He has 0 wins over 10 seconds.
Who Finishes 2nd to Cooper Webb?
- Ken Roczen, 8 times total, the most of any rider. Webb won six of the 8 races by less than a second and the average margin of victory is 1.04.
- Chase Sexton, 7 times total, 3 of them in 2025. Webb won three of the races by less than a second (Seattle 2025, Seattle 2024, and Arlington 2023 in TC Race 3). Webb averages a 2.25-sec. gap in wins over Sexton.
- The final three narrow victories came against Marvin Musquin, Blake Baggett and Justin Barcia.
Notable: Since 2013, 22 total races have had sub-1-second victory margins. Webb won 12 of those and, inversely, finished 2nd in four of them.
Cooper vs. Chase – Recap 2025
Cooper Webb has 4 wins, most in class, but didn’t get a victory until round 6 (Detroit). If Webb wins the 2025 title, it would be the latest first win for a champ since 1992 (Jeff Stanton, Rd. 7)
Headed into the final six rounds:
- Cooper Webb leads Chase Sexton by +11
- Webb: 4 wins, 7 podiums
- Sexton: 3 wins, 7 podiums
2025 Results: Webb vs. Sexton
Total Winners: Near Unprecedented Territory, Again
With 16 winners, 2024 was a record year for most total winners in a single championship season; we’ve already reached that mark in 2025 and we still have 12 more chances to make it 17 (or more).
- Through 11 rounds of racing, 2025 has had 16 different winners between 450SX and 250SX East and West.
- At this point in 2024 we had 13 winners.
Most Total Winners in a Single Season
*6 rounds remain in the season
250SX, Specifically
- 10 different riders have won the 11 rounds.
- 2025 is already tied with 2024, which saw 10 different riders win within the 17 rounds.
- Through 11 rounds in 2024, 8 different riders had won.
- There are five other seasons where at least 9 riders won 250SX races.
Even wilder: several previous winners (even a defending champion) still haven’t won this season.
Here’s a list of notable riders to keep on the radar as potential 250SX winners in the remaining 2025 events.
250SX Riders Yet to Win in 2025 (or ever)
Rider Spotlight: Nate Thrasher
Yamaha’s Nate Thrasher has had a truly unique career arc. He’s in his 5th consecutive year as a professional and he’s won at least one race in each of those seasons.
- Thrasher, 22, has six career wins in 39 starts but his best average finish position for a season is only 7.3 (2023).
- Thrasher finished 5th in 250SX West in 2022 and 2024. In 2025, he’s currently… 5th.
- Thrasher is on pace for his best season yet (currently 7.2 finish avg.). This despite breaking his right middle finger the week of Feb. 10 and having surgery on it after the Detroit Supercross.
- Six wins but no title: a very small handful of riders have that many wins with no title. With whom do we compare him? Jeremy Martin and Martin Davalos come to mind. The biggest difference is that they finished seasons either runner-up or top three (3 times in J. Martin’s case)
Nate Thrasher Compared to…
- Along with winning in each of his 5 seasons as a pro, Thrasher has led laps every year, except for 2025. He won the Birmingham Triple Crown without winning a single individual race or leading a lap.
New England Supercross Legends
Racing in New England is a great excuse to discuss local legends. In Supercross, specifically, there are three riders who have won rounds at the premier class level and two of the three are 125/250SX Divisional champions.
- Jimmy Ellis scored a perfect season in 1975, winning all 4 races
- At the time of Ellis’ final win (Seattle, 1978), he was the sport’s all-time wins leaders (8), one of just four riders to hold that title (Bob Hannah, Rick Johnson and Jeremy McGrath)
- Doug Henry and John Dowd are both 125SX champions, each with 7 wins. Henry won the 1993 125SX East title and Dowd the 1998 125SX West.
- Both Henry and Dowd raced at the 1990 Foxborough Supercross. Henry finished 8th in 125SX and Dowd finished 17th in 250/450 class.
250 East: Winning without Winning
The 250SX East division resumes in Foxborough for its 6th round.
- Five different winners have topped the podium in 2025: Max Anstie, Levi Kitchen, RJ Hampshire, Seth Hammaker and Nate Thrasher.
- 8 different riders have been on the podium.
- Tom Vialle is the only rider to finish top 5 at all five rounds run.
- As mentioned in a section above, the defending champion, and points leader, Tom Vialle has yet to win. Now that we’re halfway through the season, we have to ask: will he win? Does he even need to?
- Vialle currently has a 10 point lead over RJ Hampshire and if he wins (without winning) it wouldn’t be the first (or second, or third) time it’s happened.
Champions Without Winning
- It’s actually happened twice in SX Division racing. After five rounds in 1997, Tim Ferry had a commanding 16 point lead. He went 2-2-2-2-5 to start the season.
- In 1987, not a single rider in the top three points won a race!