2024 SuperMotocross

Haiden Deegan is the 2024 250 SuperMotocross champion for the second consecutive year but this time in dominating style. Deegan won 5 of the 6 motos run and finished 1-1-2 in the overalls.

The Star Racing Yamaha rider had a big enough points pad headed into the triple points paying finale that he only needed third or better (if Tom Vialle won). Deegan’s purse and championship bonus haul was $625,000.

Vialle had a bumpy post-season and was never in contention for a win. He went 5-2-5 in the three rounds and secured his runner-up spot by just one point. His SMX winnings were just over $280,000.

Pierce Brown was the surprise winner at the final round and he shot from 7th to 3rd in the points. Brown improved each week (11-7-1). His 2-1 motos in Las Vegas were his only podium finishes all season and he pocketed nearly $205,000 for his three weekends of work.

250SMX Final Points

1. 1. Haiden Deegan: 166 pts. (2 wins)
2. 2. Tom Vialle: -34
3. 3. Pierce Brown: -35 (1 win)
4. 4. Jo Shimoda: -36
5. 5. Jordon Smith: -42

For the second consecutive year, Jett Lawrence is the 450 SuperMotocross World Champion and  this time he did it with two completely new challengers in the field: his own brother, Hunter Lawrence, and Eli Tomac. They finished 2nd and 3rd in the championship.

Jett (1-3-1 for the season) entered the Las Vegas finale third in points (-9 to Hunter and -8 to Chase Sexton). Jett ended the night tied in points with Hunter but won the title because he finished with more overall wins. His SMX cash haul (purse and title bonus) was $1,225,000.

The SMX title is Jett’s 8th total, 4th in the 450 class.

Hunter (4-1-2 in SMX) finished second in points and took home $660,000.

Sexton started the SMX season with the #1 seed for the second year in a row but suffered bad luck at the finale once again. On the opening lap of moto 1, he moved into Justin Barcia’s line through a rhythm section. Barcia landed on top of Sexton’s right hand/shoulder (suffered a bone contusion in his hand). Neither rider crashed but Sexton pulled off the track and never returned to action. With a 21-DNS / 24th he tumbled to 7th in the points.

450SMX Final Points

1. 1. Jett Lawrence: 156 (2 wins)
2. 2. Hunter Lawrence: -0 (1 win)
3. 3. Eli Tomac: -27
4. 4. Aaron Plessinger: -40
5. 5. Cooper Webb: -47

In his 5th season of 450 Pro Motocross, Chase Sexton won the championship with a moto to spare. He’s the 5th different champion in the last five years and the first KTM rider to win the class since Ryan Dungey (2015)

By the numbers, Sexton won 7 of the 11 overalls, including the last six in a row and finished on the podium 10 times.

With 13 career 450MX wins, he’s ranked 18th on the all-time wins list.

With a dominating 1-1 win at the finale (his 5th perfect day of the season) he also went from third to first in the most laps led category. Sexton ended the season with 101 laps led to Hunter Lawrence’s 97.

If Sexton had a weakness in 2024, it was his starts. He had just one holeshot all summer and had an avg. start position of 5.5.

Looking forward to 2025, he’s just one of seven riders in 450MX history to win at least six in a row.

450MX Final Points

1. 1. Chase Sexton: 504 pts. (7 wins)
2. 2. Hunter Lawrence: -42
3. 3. Aaron Plessinger: -101
4. 4. Justin Cooper: -133
5. 5. Jason Anderson: -142

In his sophomore season of 250 Pro Motocross, Haiden Deegan won the 250MX championship with three motos left to run in the season. Deegan is the 35th different rider to win this crown, going back to the first champion, Marty Smith.

After a wire-to-wire win in Budds Creek Moto 1, where he led by as much as 23 seconds before topping over and losing time, Deegan jumped up on the podium and delivered a spicy interview: “All I cared about on that line was destroying these dudes so bad. I wanted to annihilate everybody.”

In the first 10 rounds of the season, Deegan is the only rider to finish in the top 10 of every single moto.

250MX Final Points

1. 1. Haiden Deegan: 481 pts. (5 wins)
2. 2. Tom Vialle: -69 (1 win)
3. 3. Levi Kitchen: -76 (3 wins)
4. 4. Chance Hymas: -132 (1 win)
5. 5. Ty Masterpool: -165 (1 win)

With a 7th place finish, Jett Lawrence won the 450SX Monster Energy Supercross Championship… as a rookie!

His historic season started with a round one win at Anaheim and ended with eight wins, 10 podiums and 9 fastest qualifiers.

Lawrence, 20, is the third rookie to win the title (and the first since 2010) and several months older than Ryan Dungey was in 2010 when he won the championship as a rookie.

Three different riders held the red plate through out the season (Jett, Chase Sexton and Aaron Plessinger) and six different riders won a main event, including Eli Tomac who tied James Stewart for most consecutive seasons (10) with at least one SX win.

450SX Final Points

1. Jett Lawrence: 351 (8 wins)
2. Cooper Webb: -15 (4 wins)
3. Chase Sexton: -44 (2 wins)
4. Eli Tomac: -69 (1 win)
5. Jason Anderson: -69

RJ Hampshire won his first career championship after 10 seasons of trying and did it in do or die style.

Hampshire entered the Salt Lake City finale tied in points with Levi Kitchen but Kitchen was never a threat in the main event and Hampshire cruised to a second place finish behind Haiden Deegan to clinch the title.

Hampshire won three main events and finished on the podium seven times to win the title by five points. It was Husqvarna’s first title since 2018.

For Kitchen, it was a crushing loss. He had a 15 point lead after St. Louis where he swept all three Triple Crown races but then ran into (literally) a disaster at the East/West Showdown in Nashville; Levi collided with his teammate Cameron Mcadoo, who was the 250SX East points leader at the time. Kitchen finished 14th in Nashville.

250SX West Final Points

1. RJ Hampshire: 208 (3 wins)
2. Levi Kitchen: -5 (3 wins)
3. Jordon Smith: -23 (1 win)
4. Jo Shimoda: -27 (1 win)
5. Nate Thrasher: -85 (1 win)

After a disastrous 18th place finish in the 250SX Eastern opener (Detroit), Tom Vialle went on a seven race podium run to win his first championship in America.

Vialle, a two-time MX2 World Motocross champion, won the Daytona and Birmingham rounds (his first ever SX wins) and ended the season with an 8th in Salt Lake City to lock up the title over Haiden Deegan by four points.

Vialle was in his second year of 250SX competition and gave KTM its first title in the class since 2015.

The East region was a turbulent one with round 1 winner Austin Forkner crashing out of round two (while leading late in the main) and his teammate Cameron Mcadoo getting injured late in the season while also leading the series.

Four different riders led the series (Vialle at two different times).

250SX East Final Points

1. Tom Vialle: 172 (2 wins)
2. Haiden Deegan: -4 (3 wins)
3. Coty Schock: -40
4. Pierce Brown: -41
5. Max Anstie: -47 (1 win)

Eli Tomac won a drama-packed Triple Crown (1-1-1) in St. Louis to became the 6th different winner of the 2024 season.

But more importantly, it was Tomac’s 52nd career victory, 8th Triple Crown overall and his 172nd podium (SX + MX, all classes), which makes him the new all-time podium leader of the sport.

Tomac’s victory was aided by an infraction by Jett Lawrence. He crossed the finish line in first in TC2 but jumped on a red cross flag and lost two positions (as did four other riders).

Tomac’s win meant he tied James Stewart for most consecutive seasons (10) with at least one SX win.