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2026 Indianapolis Research

By Brett Smith

Welcome to the Circle City!

  • This will be the 36th running of the Indianapolis Supercross. Seventeen were held in the old Hoosier/RCA Dome and this weekend will be the 19th in Lucas Oil Stadium.
  • Chad Reed is the only rider to win in both the Hoosier Dome and Lucas Oil Stadium
  • This will be the 9th time Indy has been Round 9 of the series.
  • Triple Crown this weekend, the 2nd time Indianapolis has hosted one (2024 was the first)
  • 2025: Cooper Webb led every lap of the main event and beat Justin Cooper by 8.45 seconds.

450 Rider Facts

  • This is closest 1st/2nd points battle leaving Daytona EVER, which has been round 8-10 since 1998.
  • Ken Roczen has 4 wins and 6 podiums in 9 Indianapolis starts.
  • Roczen swept all three races in the 2021 “residency” season.
  • Eli Tomac averages 6.1 at Indy (13 starts). It’s not his strongest venue. His results range from 1st (twice) to 15th and everything in between.
  • 2026 Laps Led Leaders: Eli Tomac (67), Ken Roczen (66)
  • Yamaha has not won a heat race since Pittsburgh 2025 (Rd. 15)
  • 7 riders have holeshots this season and Justin Cooper isn’t one of them (Avg. L.1 pos: 10.5)
  • 14 riders have made every single main event this season. That’s 1 more than 2025, 3 more than 2024 and 4 more than 2023 (after 8 rounds).

250 Rider Facts

  • Seth Hammaker (2nd, -2 pts) is in a MUCH better position after 2 rds. than he was in 2025 (9th / -24 pts.)
  • Pierce Brown has never scored three consecutive podium finishes. Before 2026, the last (and only other) time he had two in a row was 2022 (3rd at both Foxborough/SLC)
  • Nate Thrasher shines in Triple Crowns, yet both of his wins (Arlington 2023: 2-2-3 and Birmingham 2025: 3-3-2) came with no race wins.
  • Thrasher’s career overalls at Triple Crowns: 7-1-3-5-1.
  • Jo Shimoda and Kyle Peters each have 6 Triple Crown starts, most among 250SX East riders.
  • Nate Thrasher, Pierce Brown, Coty Schock, John Short and Henry Miller all have 5 Triple Crown starts
  • Evan Ferry scored his first professional point (21st place), two years after making his first main event (Detroit 2024).
  • FWIW: Supercross newbie Valentin Guillod qualified for his first main event and had the 2nd fastest pass through the whoops and was consistently fast in them throughout the race.

Championship Gaps After Daytona

  • Hunter Lawrence’s +1 pts lead over Eli Tomac is the absolute narrowest margin leaving Daytona. Ever.
  • The largest points gap after Daytona is +56 (1998: McGrath over Lusk).
  • The historical points gap average leaving Daytona (between 1st and 2nd) is 18 points. That includes all years going back to 1974 when Daytona was as early as the very first round.
  • NOTE: Since 1998, Daytona has been round 8-10. As Ricky Carmichael pointed out, the 10 minute mark was the precise halfway point in the SX series.
Narrowest Points Gaps Leaving DIS

All-Time Indianapolis

From one racing capital to another, Indianapolis has been a fixture on the schedule since 1992.

  • Ken Roczen swept the 2021 residency races and won again in 2023.
  • Jeremy McGrath and Ryan Villopoto both won four in a row at Indy
  • Honda is the all-time OEM wins leader in Indy (24). They have three times as many wins as the next OEM (Kawasaki, 8).
  • KTM (5) has more Indy wins than Suzuki (4)
All-Time Indy Winners

Joey Savatgy: Beast Season Ever?

Quad Lock Honda’s Joey Savatgy is having his best 450SX season since 2019, rookie year.

  • Notable: Joey had an average start position of 6.5 in 2019 (factory Kawi). He hasn’t been under 10.0 since. In 2026, he’s averaging 10.5.
  • 2026: His two top 5 finishes (SD/DAY) came much earlier than his two top fives in 2025 (Rd. 13/17)
  • 2026: 8.0 average finish after 8 rounds is better than 2019 when he had an avg. of 9.9 after 8 rounds.
  • Savatgy has YET to finish on the podium in his career. Career best: 4th @ Minneapolis 2019
  • 2021: only season he lined up for all 17 main events.
Joey Savatgy 450SX Career Snapshot

450SX Season + Career bests

Among the riders who finished 5-11 at Daytona, all but one had season best finishes.

  • Joey Savatgy equaled his season best (San Diego)
  • Garrett Marchbanks got his first career top 10
  • Not only has Aaron Plessinger failed to get on the podium, he hasn’t even had a top 5. 2020 is the only season where he had no top 5 finishes.
  • AP said he switched to an air fork.
450SX Season Bests

Yamaha’s 2026 250SX Domination

Kawasaki ended Yamaha’s 250SX win streak at 7 but there is still plenty of rounds left for the brand to equal–even surpass–its most-ever wins in a single 250SX season.

  • A win in Indianapolis would give the tuning fork brand an 8th win, which they’ve done 6 times since 1985.
  • The most ever is 10 by 4 different riders.
Yamaha Most 250SX Wins in a Season

The 22nd Triple Crown

This will be the 22nd Triple Crown race held since 2018. For Indianapolis, specifically, it’s the 2nd.

  • Jett Lawrence won the 2024 Indy Triple Crown (1-1-1)
  • 7 different overall winners and 10 different race winners in the history of Triple Crowns.
  • The list of winners, both overall and race, are what you’d expect in a traditional main event.
Triple Crown 450SX Winners History
Triple Crown Notes
  • Cooper Webb has raced 20 Triple Crown rounds, most of all riders.
  • Webb has 60 ind. TC Race starts.
  • Eli Tomac has the most podium finishes in individual TC races (35 in 57 starts)
  • 9 = the most Olympic points scored with a win. Cooper Webb went 2-2-5 for the overall at A2 in 2024 AND 4-2-3 to win in Houston 2026
  • 1-1-6 and 6-1-1 = The worst finish in a single race and still won the overall. Eli Tomac did the former in Detroit 2019 and Cooper Webb did the latter in Arlington 2025.
  • Consistency is key; No overall winner has finished outside the top 3 in more than one race.
  • 3 riders have swept a Triple Crown: Ken Roczen (Glendale 2020), Jett Lawrence (Indianapolis 2024), Eli Tomac (St Louis 2024)
  • Triple Crown winners who didn’t win a single race: Eli Tomac (Arlington 2022), Cooper Webb (A2 2024, Houston 2026), and Chase Sexton (Glendale 2025)
250SX Triple Crown Notes
  • Cameron Mcadoo won the 2024 Indianapolis Triple Crown (1-2-3)
  • Nate Thrasher has won two Triple Crowns, both without winning a single race: (Arlington 2023: 2-2-3 and Birmingham 2025: 3-3-2)
  • Thrasher has one career TC Race win.
  • Jo Shimoda has 6 career Triple Crown starts but has yet to win either an overall or an individual TC Race.
  • Shimoda had 8 TC Race podiums and 2 overall podiums. He averages a 4.2 finish.
  • Pierce Brown has 5 Triple Crown starts and two top 5 overall finishes.
  • Seth Hammaker only has 2 Triple Crown starts (9th at Indy 2024, 4th at Birmingham 2025)

Milestones

450 Achieved Last Week
  • Eli Tomac (192) is now tied for 4th in all-time starts with Nick Wey
  • Eli Tomac (297) tied Larry Ward (297) for 5th all-time SX+MX starts
  • Ken Roczen tied Mike LaRocco for 6th all-time SX podiums (81)
450s
  • Eli Tomac…
  • Ken Roczen (6,492 pts) needs just +44 points to tie Ricky Carmichael (6,536 pts) for 5th all-time SX+MX.
  • Cooper Webb (80) needs one more podium to tie Mike LaRocco (81) for 7th all-time SX.
  • Cooper Webb (32) wins SX+MX needs one more to tie Jett Lawrence (33)
  • With a win, Jason Anderson would be the 12th rider to win on 3 OEMs.
  • Jason Anderson (53) needs 1 more podium to tie Jeff Stanton (54) for 13th all-time.
250 Achieved Last Week
  • Jo Shimoda (924 points) passed Christian Craig (913 pts) for 17th all-time.
250s
  • Kyle Peters (75) needs one start to tie Jordon Smith (76)and Josh Hansen (76) for 9th all-time in 250SX
  • Jo Shimoda (39) needs 1 more podium to tie Dylan Ferrandis, Guy Cooper, and Mark Barnett (40) for 15th all-time SX+MX
  • Jo Shimoda (924 points) needs 15 points to tie Cameron Mcadoo for 5th all-time and 22 points to tie Josh Hansen for 14th all-time.
  • Notable that Jo Shimoda has the most starts (52 – tied 36th all-time) of all riders in the East division.