Arlington

Cooper Webb is the all-time wins leader in the Dallas area. His 5 wins edges out Chad Reed (4) who has 16 starts in the market. Even Jeremy McGrath only won twice in Dallas (10 starts). Webb’s 5 wins in 9 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. 

Round 1, 1975. Texas Stadium was the first appearance of Dallas on the Supercross schedule in 1975. 48,000 witnessed round 1 of the Yamaha Super Series of Motocross. Jimmy Ellis went 1-1-1-2 in the two night race

Round 8, 1983: After a six year absence, Dallas returns to the schedule, this time in the historic Cotton Bowl. It’s the only Supercross ever 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 and Bob Hannah finished second.

Round 10, 1989: A classic chess match, Jeff Stanton will forever remember this as the one he (literally) threw away. Stanton led from the start but Jeff Ward was right behind him and finally passed into the lead on lap 10. The battle heated up with five laps to go and Stanton got aggressive on the final lap. He stuffed Ward, who refused to back down.

“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 shot into the air and landed on top of Ron Tichenor’s motorcycle. Ward coasted to his second straight win.

Round 14, 2001: Ricky Carmichael wins 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, Lusk passing Carmichael twice in the whoops.

Round 12, 2005: In just his third premier class start, James Stewart wins his first main event. Stewart missed rounds 2-10 with a broken arm and 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 5+ second win.

Round 7, 2016: Ryan Dungey already had a full race points lead and the series wasn’t even halfway through but Ken Roczen did something nobody else had been able to do that season: pass and then beat Dungey. Roczen holeshot the 450SX main and Dungey passed him before a lap was complete. But Roczen didn’t fade off, instead, he passed right back and never let go of the position, despite pressure from Dungey the entire race. Roczen won by 1.4 seconds and cut Dungey’s points lead to 23.