Arlington

Cooper Webb is the all-time wins leader in the Dallas area. Webb’s six wins in 10 appearances all happened at AT&T Stadium, mostly on the strength of a 3-round residency in 2021, which he swept.

His first Arlington win (2019, pictured) was the closest finish in Supercross history (.028). He also won the Triple Crown event in 2023 and edged out Jett Lawrence in 2024, capitalizing on a late race crash while Lawrence had a comfortable lead. 

Feb. 28 and Mar. 1, 1975 was the Dallas area’s first Supercross race, a two night event attended by 48,000 at Irving’s Texas Stadium. It was round 1 of the second annual Yamaha Super Series of Motocross and Jimmy Ellis went 1-1-1-2 to win the overall.

Pierre Karsmakers, the defending champion, who had just signed a contract with American Honda, injured his knee at Carlsbad five days earlier. He didn’t return to action until early May.

Round 8, 1983: After a six year absence, Dallas returned to the schedule, this time in the historic Cotton Bowl. It’s one of only two Supercross races held in Dallas city limits and Mike Bell won the 11th and final Supercross of his career.

Sixteen year old Ron Lechien got his first podium (and led his first ever main event) that night. Bob Hannah finished second.

A classic chess match, Jeff Stanton (literally) threw this one away. Stanton led early until Jeff Ward passed him on lap 10. The battle heated up with five to go and Stanton stuffed Ward on the final lap. Ward wouldn’t be denied.

“I thought we were going to lock bars,” Ward said (see photo). With two turns to go, Stanton lost control of his CR250, which bizarrely catapulted into the air. Ward coasted to his second straight win.

Ricky Carmichael won his 11th consecutive Supercross and his first Supercross championship. To wrap up the title two rounds early, he needed someone to finish between him and Jeremy McGrath and that person was Ezra Lusk.

RC and Yogi battled for the first four laps and Lusk passed Carmichael twice in the whoops. But Carmichael, in his patented orange Fox gear, went on to win again. He ended the season with 14 victories. 

In just his third premier class start (round 12 of the series), James Stewart won his first main event. Stewart missed rounds 2-10 with a broken arm but won wire to wire over Ricky Carmichael and Chad Reed in Texas Stadium.

“It was actually a little easier than I thought,” said the 19-year-old after the race. Even a loose, unusable front brake lever didn’t prevent Stewart from cruising to a five-plus second win.

Ryan Dungey already had a full race points lead and the series wasn’t even halfway through but Ken Roczen did something nobody else could that season: pass and then beat Dungey.

Roczen holeshot the 450SX main and Dungey passed him before one lap was complete. But Roczen didn’t fade. Instead, he passed right back and never let go of the position, despite pressure the entire race. Roczen won by 1.4 seconds and cut Dungey’s points lead to 23.