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2025 Denver Supercross Research

By Brett Smith

Round 16: Mile High

Nicknamed the Mile High City because of its elevation above sea level measuring exactly 5,280 feet, Denver’s Supercross history didn’t begin until 1996 but then disappeared from the schedule until 2019.

The “Wall Street of the West” has produced five different 450SX winners in the five races hosted.

More info on the Denver venue history page:

DENVER RESULTS HISTORY
The t-shirt graphic for the first ever Denver Supercross

Round 16 Facts

  • Between the five rounds of 450SX and 250SX racing held in Denver since 1996, 10 different riders have won.

450SX Facts

  • Kyle Chisholm: 182 450SX starts. Just two behind Eli Tomac. Tomac is 7th all-time.
  • 5 different riders have won the 5 450SX races held in Denver
  • With 5 wins each, only Cooper Webb and Chase Sexton have more than 1 win this season. Roczen, Stewart, Plessinger, Tomac, and J Lawrence all have 1 win.
  • Cooper Webb (75 podiums) could tie Ken Roczen (76) with one more podium while also breaking a tie for 8th all-time with James Stewart and Kevin Windham
  • Cooper Webb is now the laps led leader of 2025 (113 to Sexton’s 104). They’ve both led laps in 8 of the 15 main events.
  • Webb did NOT lead the most laps in 2021. In 2019 he tied with Eli Tomac for most laps led (128)
  • Chase Sexton is 7x fastest qualifier, 7x fastest overall in heats, and 5x fastest in the main event – series leader for all of the above.
  • Justin Cooper set the fastest lap in the Pittsburgh main event last week. It’s the second time he’s been fastest in a main this season (Arlington)
  • Ken Roczen is averaging a series leading 5.9 at the white holeshot line.
  • No rider has won three consecutive this season. The last time the 450SX class did NOT see a rider win 3 in a row was 2020.
  • Freddie Noren has a series leading 3 LCQ wins. Harlan, Chisholm, and Harrison each have 2 LCQ wins – the only other riders with more than 1.
  • Kyle Chisholm has been a series leading fastest LCQ rider 4x this season.
Cooper Webb leading Chase Sexton at the Pittsburgh Supercross. Photo: Octopi

250SX West Facts

  • Jordon Smith could move up in 3 top 10 all-time categories this weekend (see Milestones below)
  • Haiden Deegan has been fastest qualifier 3x (2nd most), 5x fastest overall in heats (most) and 4x fastest in the main (most).
  • Deegan has led 73 of the 159 laps in the west series – he’s led nearly as many laps as all other competitors in total (73 vs. 86 for all others).
  • Deegan has not lost a position from the white line to the finish all season – he rarely makes the costly mistake.
  • Deegan is the only rider in either 250SX division to finish top five every single round.
  • Jo Shimoda has one podium this season – his victory at Anaheim 1.
  • Julien Beaumer has been fastest qualifier a series leading 4x but has yet to be fastest in a heat or main event.
  • Gavin Towers has won a series leading 3 LCQs this season.
  • Mathematically, four riders are still in contention for the 250SX West title.

Clinch Scenarios

The points gap between Cooper Webb and Chase Sexton has gone back to double digits but there’s still 40 minutes (+2 laps) to go.

In the Pittsburgh press conference, Webb responded acerbically when asked about the math being his favor:

Everyone keeps saying get one win and, mathematically, it’s over. Dude, that ain’t the case. Think it’s easy to go get second every night? Like, no, it’s not. Anything can happen. Mathematically, it helped but it ain’t over until it’s over.

–Cooper Webb

In 2019 and 2021 –Webb’s two Monster Energy Supercross Championship winning seasons–he missed clinching one round early by just a few points (2 and 3 pts, respectively).

He’s +12 over Sexton headed into round 16. Here are his clinch scenarios:

Webb’s Clinch Scenarios
  • ICYWW: Ken Roczen (-54) is already mathematically eliminated from title contention.
Cole Davies (right) and Haiden Deegan at the 2025 Seattle Supercross. Photo: Octopi
Deegan Clinch Scenarios

Haiden Deegan has a 17 point lead over his teammate Cole Davies, 26 over Julien Beaumer and 35 over Jo Shimoda. The clinch picture is a bit more complicated in 250SX West because these four riders are still in the mathematical ‘realm of possibility’.

Here’s what needs to happen for him to clinch his first Supercross championship:

  • Cole Davies is in the best position to extend this title to the final round. He needs to finish within 7 points of Deegan.
  • Julien Beaumer needs to beat Deegan to keep his hopes alive. If Deegan wins or beats him, he’s eliminated.
  • Jo Shimoda needs to win and have Deegan finish 8th or worse to keep his title hopes alive. It’s not looking good for Jo – Deegan’s not finished worse than 5th all season.

The History of 3-time 450SX Champs

Only 6 riders in the 51-year history of crowning Supercross champions have won three or more premier class titles.

  • First: Bob Hannah, 1979.
  • Most recent: Ryan Dungey, 2016; one year later he won a 4th title and then retired.
Bob Hannah in 1976, before becoming the first Superstar of Supercross.

If Cooper Webb wins the 2025 Monster Energy Supercross Championship…

  • He’ll be the first three-time champ to win each title non-consecutively
  • It’ll be the second longest gap between winning premier class titles (longest = Dungey 2010 to 2015)
  • He’ll be the sixth to win on multiple manufacturers (McGrath, Carmichael, Stewart, Dungey, Tomac)
  • It’ll be Yamaha’s 13th premier class Supercross title (2nd most behind Honda)
Three-Time (or more) Supercross Champions

Deegan’s First SX Title?

As Haiden Deegan wraps up his 3rd season of Monster Energy Supercross, how does he compare with recent (and notable) champions?

  • With two rounds left in 2025, here is where Deegan stacks against Jett Lawrence, Cooper Webb, Eli Tomac and Ken Roczen AFTER three seasons of 250SX competition.
250SX 3rd Season Comparisons: Deegan vs. Lawrence, Tomac, Webb & Roczen
  • Note: Webb, Tomac and Roczen moved to the 450SX class after three 250SX seasons. J. Lawrence ran a 4th season of 250SX and that data is not reflected in this chart above.
  • Deegan is the 2024 250SX Pro Motocross champion and the 2023 & 2024 SuperMotocross World Champion (250).

SMX Graduates

SMX Next graduates Haiden Deegan, Cole Davies and Julien Beaumer fill the top three positions of the 250SX West division with two rounds to go in 2025.

It’s an impressive result for a program that has quickly proven to be an effective pipeline.

In early 2019, at the launch of the SX Futures amateur program, Supercross VP, Dave Prater, told We Went Fast this prophetic statement:

We may not see any benefits for five or six years, but I think we’re going to start seeing kids come into the sport way better prepared than they are right now, in every way. That’s the goal.

–Dave Prater

With four different 2025 SMX Next winners in the five events run, ending with Alexander Fedortsov taking the SMX Next Supercross AMA National Championship in Pittsburgh, we can expect to see some of those riders near the top of 250SX Division racing in 2026 or 2027.

Here’s the full SMX careers of five current top 250SX riders.

SMX Next Box Scores
  • Notable: Haiden Deegan, Cole Davies, Julien Beaumer and Daxton Bennick all debuted in SMX Next at Anaheim 2, 2023.
  • Deegan, however, moved up to 250SX East just one week later and finished one position better than he did in his one and only SMX Next event!
  • Cole Davies was just 15 when he debuted at Anaheim 2, 2023, and he finished just ahead of his future teammate, Deegan.
  • Davies’ average (and best) lap time was two seconds off the winner’s (Bennick) but he started in 5th and moved up to 4th, finishing 14 seconds behind.
Cole Davies SMX Next Results
  • Davies went out for practice at the 2023 Glendale SMX Next but did not ride in Qualifying. He was credited with 21st in the main event but did not start the race.
Julien Beaumer leads Cole Davies at the 2025 San Diego Supercross. Both are SMX Next grads. Photo: Garth Milan

Milestones

450 Milestones
  • Chase Sexton’s 14th win tied him with Jason Anderson for 18th on the all-time 450SX wins list.
  • Cooper Webb (2,679) is 9th all-time in 450SX points scored. Webb is 60 points behind Jason Anderson.
  • Cooper Webb (75) needs one more podium to tie Ken Roczen (76) and break a tie with James Stewart and Kevin Windham for 8th all-time.
  • If Kyle Chisholm (182) qualifies out (final 2 rounds), he will tie Eli Tomac (184) for 7th on the all-time 450SX starts list.
250 Milestones
  • Jordon Smith (27 podiums) will break a tie with Stephane Roncada for 2nd all-time with 1 more podium.
  • Jordon Smith (74 starts) needs one more start to break into the top 10 all-time.
  • Jordon Smith (1,182 points) needs 9 points (13th or better) to pass Nate Ramsey for 4th all-time.