Statistical Guide to Triple Crowns
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Does experience prevail at the 2024 Indianapolis Supercross or does Jett Lawrence ‘tick another box’, as his father, Darren likes to say of achieving small goals and stamping milestones on the way to championships?
For the first time in Triple Crown history, Indianapolis plays host to the three race format, which has been dominated by two riders in six seasons of use.
Combined, Eli Tomac and Cooper Webb have won 11 of the 15 Triple Crown races held, which started in 2018. Webb has won two of the last three Triple Crown overalls and Tomac has taken nearly one third (14/45) of the individual Races (TC 1, 2 or 3).
Jett Lawrence, meanwhile, still has some gremlins to squash from his TC history. In his five career TC starts (4 in 250SX and 1 in 450SX), he’s had crashes in six of the individual races. The good news in the 250 class is that he was still able to leave with four podium finishes (one of them, a win).
His only 450SX TC start so far (Anaheim 2, 2024) ended with a painful lesson in patience; dropping two positions on the LAST LAP of TC Race three (2nd to 4th) cost him FOUR spots in the overall (and six championship points) because of the way the three-race math worked out.
450 Triple Crown Winner History
There’s been eight different TC race winners and six different TC overall winners.
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Triple Crown 2024 Recap
Indianapolis is the second of three Triple Crown events (St. Louis is the third). Here’s a brief on what happened at Anaheim 2 (round 4).
Cooper Webb took the win without winning a single race (2-2-5). Eli Tomac (5-7-1) and Aaron Plessinger (6-4-3) rounded out the podium.
- Jett Lawrence finished 6th overall after finishing 7-3-4 in the individual races, but it was a crash with just one lap remaining in the third race that cost him six championships points. When he fell, he went from second to fourth. But in the overall, since four other riders were so close in overall points, he went from second to sixth! Note: he also crashed just after the start in race 1.
- Jett Lawrence left A2 eight points behind Aaron Plessinger.
- Aaron Plessinger left A2 with the red plate for the second week in a row.
- Eli Tomac led all 14 laps of TC 3 and served notice that he was building momentum and got his second podium of the year.
450 Triple Crown Rider Facts and Insights
- Jett Lawrence doesn’t have a 450SX TC race or overall win (he has 1 start)
- Eli Tomac: Winningest TC rider with seven overall wins in 15 starts. He’s also been on the podium 13 of 15 times)
- Podiums in 29 of 45 TC races: 64%!
- The only rider in history to race every single (15 of 15) Triple Crown event.
- One of two racers (along with Webb) to win a TC overall and not win a single race.
- Ken Roczen is the only rider to sweep a premier class TC event: (Glendale 2020)
- Cooper Webb won the A2 TC overall without a single race win (Tomac did this at Arlington 2022)
- Jason Anderson has eight TC Race wins but just one TC overall. l
- He’s had one TC race win in three of the last 4 TC events going back to the beginning of 2023.
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250 Triple Crown Rider Facts and Insights
A2 was a 250 West round, so this will be the first Triple Crown event for the 250 East riders. But 20 of the 250 East riders have competed in at least one Triple Crown event. Here are a few of the key riders.
- Tom Vialle raced Arlington 2023 in his rookie season and finished a season best fourth.
- Cameron McAdoo has five Triple Crown starts and has averaged seventh.
- One of his two career wins was the 2022 Arlington TC event where he went 2-3-1 for the overall win.
- He’s not done well in his other four starts. He’s finished sixth four times and 15th once.
- Pierce Brown has four Triple Crown starts and a disappointing 10th average overall finish.
- He’s never finished on the overall podium and has finished just two of 12 TC races on the podium (both second place finishes at Arlington 2022 and Anaheim 2 2023)
- His career best TC overall finish is a 4th at Glendale 2023 (4-4-5)
- Max Anstie finished fifth at Arlington 2023 (3-4-9), his one and only Triple Crown event.
- Haiden Deegan finished eighth at Arlington 2023 (15-5-4), his one and only Triple Crown event.
- Jeremy Martin is one of the more decorated Triple Crown riders in the current East field. Most recently, he won the third race of last year’s Arlington event and finished sixth overall.