450 Storylines:
ELI TOMAC: Captures his 57th career 450SX Class win (2nd all-time) & 113th SMX League win (1 win behind 2nd all-time). Tomac has already tied for 10th in all-time SMX League wins on a KTM & 5th in 450SX Class wins on a KTM. He also tied Nick Wey for 4th on the all-time 450SX Class starts list & is only 3 podiums behind Jeremy McGrath for 2nd all-time in 450SX Class podiums. Tomac’s 8th Daytona victory breaks Richard Petty’s record of 7 NASCAR victories at the Speedway. In Indy he will seek his 175th 450SX Class top-10 finish (4th all-time) & 350th SMX League Top-10 (1st all-time).
HUNTER LAWRENCE: Retains the red plate by a single point with his 6th podium of the season and 8th of his 450SX Class career in 27 starts. He also nailed his 15th career 450SX Class top-5 finish & seeks to become the 40th SMX League athlete all-time to score 100 SMX League top-5 finishes in Indy.
KEN ROCZEN: Defended his 2025 Daytona Supercross victory early in the race but settled for his 5th podium of the season in the end. He was making his 170th career 450SX Class start & earned his 81st 450SX Class podium (168/316 in SMX League career). His 81st podium ties Mike LaRocco for 6th all-time and moves him past Cooper Webb as the two continue to go back-and-forth on the all-time list. Other than podiums, Roczen continues to move up in other 450SX Class categories as well: Top-5’s- Ties Kevin Windham for 6th all-time with 113. Top-10’s: 10 away from McGrath in 5th. Starts- 1 behind Jeff Ward for 11th. SMX League top-5’s- Ties Windham for 4th all-time with 234.
NOTES: Cooper Webb (4th): 106th career 450SX Class top-5 finish (8th all-time) in 147th start (16th all-time). Has been incredible in Rd. 9’s in his 450SX Class career with a 2.5 avg. finish & 7 straight podiums. Joey Savatgy (5th): After scoring 0 450SX Class top-5’s from Rd. 16 in 2019 to Rd. 12 in 2025 (82 rounds), Savatgy has caught fire with 4 top-5 finishes in the last 13 rounds. Aaron Plessinger (6th): Scores best finish of his season & makes his 250th career SMX League start (102 in 450SX Class). He also earned his milestone 200th SMX League top-10 finish (79 in 450SX Class. Garrett Marchbanks (7th): After back-to-back 22nd place finishes, Marchbanks nails his 1st career 450SX Class top-10 finish. He seeks his 80th career SMX League top-10 finish in Indy. Shane McElrath (8th): Also earns his best finish of the season & takes over as the active leader in consecutive starts with his 58th, due to previous leader Chase Sexton’s unfortunate injury.
450 Venue Notes:
- HISTORY LESSON: The first 450SX Class round held in Indianapolis was on March 21, 1992, in the RCA Dome. Jeff Stanton (Honda) scored the victory at the halfway point of an exciting title chase. Going into Indy, Damon Bradshaw comfortably led the Honda duo of J.M. Bayle (-16) and Stanton (-19) in the points, but disaster struck Bradshaw late in the Main Event. Running in podium position, Bradshaw landed on a lapper befalling him to 19th. Stanton and Bayle left the RCA Dome tied in points with Bradshaw in 3rd. Bradshaw rebounded in the following rounds, but Stanton beat him in the final tally by a mere three points.
- LUCAS OIL STADIUM: The Indianapolis Supercross was held in the RCA Dome 17 times, every year from 1992-2008. Lucas Oil Stadium took over hosting the Indy Supercross in 2009 and has only missed one season (2020). Indy made up for the lost COVID-cancelled rough by hosting 3 rounds in the COVID-altered “host city” season of 2021. 2026 will be the 36th Indianapolis Supercross and 19th in Lucas Oil Stadium. Lucas Oil stadium surpassed the RCA Dome in Supercross rounds held last season.
- “MC”A DOME: Jeremy McGrath (Honda) won Indy and the 450SX Class title from 1993 through his 1996 near perfect season. Jeff Emig blocked McGrath from both in 1997, but The King would not be denied Indy or the title in 1998 and 2000. 1999 is the only Championship season he didn’t win Indy and the title during his 7 titles in 8 seasons. The Hall of Fame trio of Ricky Carmichael, James Stewart, and Chad Reed finished out racing in the RCA Dome from 2001-2008 with victories in 6 of the last 8 rounds, while David Vuillemin and local hero/ironman Mike LaRocco tacked on victories before the location was demolished.
- INDY’S CHAMP: The winner of the Indy Supercross doubled as 450SX Class Champion in 22/33 seasons (67%), including Jett Lawrence’s 1-1-1 Triple Crown sweep in ’24 & Cooper Webb’s victory last season. In the RCA Dome the winner of the Indy SX won the title an incredible 14/17 (82%) times, which is a Supercross record among venues with at least that many rounds raced.
250 Storylines:
SETH HAMMAKER: Nails his 4th career 250SX Class victory in his 31st 250SX Class start. He becomes the 1st Pro-Circuit Kawasaki Daytona winner since Cameron McAdoo in 2021. The win breaks Yamaha’s dominant start to the 250SX Class season. Hammaker also collected his 20th 250SX Class top-5 finish & 25th top-10 finish. It was Pro-Circuit’s 175th 250SX Class win & 1st of the season. He is only 2 points off the red-plate.
COLE DAVIES: Nabs 5th career 250SX Class podium in 11th start. Improves from his 5th in Arlington & sits 3rd only 6 points back in the Eastern Divisional standings. Davies scored the fastest lap of the Main Event, cementing himself as at top contender if he could improve his starting position (12th in Daytona/22nd in Arlington).
PIERCE BROWN: Retains the points lead with his 6th 250SX Class podium in 38th start. Also nailed his 20th top-5 finish. Brown is the 1st three-digit athlete to carry the red-plate in either class. This stat is strict to red-plates, not encompassing all point leaders in Supercross history. The last 3-digit athlete to win a title was Christophe Pourcel in 2009’s Eastern Divisional.
NOTES: Jo Shimoda (4th): Only 5 points back in the point standings, Shimoda nabbed his 84th career SMX League top-5 finish. That ties him with David Bailey for 50th on the all-time list. His 34th 250SX Class top-5 finish ties him with Brock Sellards for 8th all-time. Devin Simonson (9th): Earned his 5th top-10 finish in his 15th 250SX Class start & 6th SMX League top-10 finish in 30 starts. Izaih Clark (12th): 25th career SMX League start & 7th 250SX Class start. Marshal Weltin (15th): 75th career SMX League start & 23rd 250SX Class start. Landon Hartz (16th): 1st career 250SX Class & SMX League start.
250 Venue Notes:
- HISTORY LESSON: The first 250SX Class round held in Indianapolis was on March 21, 1992, in the RCA Dome and Jimmy Button (Yamaha) scored the victory. Button lost the Eastern Divisional title to Brian Swink but was the only Eastern Divisional athlete to beat Swink that season. The next season Indy was the Eastern Divisional finale and Doug Henry, who had already wrapped up the title, nailed his 7th win.
- SAME HISTORY: 250SX Class racing shares the same history in Indy as the 450SX Class. Trey Canard (Honda) won the last 250SX Class round in the RCA Dome in 2007, and Austin Stroupe (Kawasaki) won Lucas Oil Stadium’s first round in 2009. 2026 will be the 36th time 250SX Class racing will drop the gate in Indianapolis, and 19th time in Lucas Oil Stadium.
- INDY’S CHAMP: The winner of the 250SX Class Indianapolis Supercross has won their 250SX Class Divisional Championship in 18/35 (53%) rounds. Seth Hammaker (Kawasaki) won Indy last season, but Tom Vialle won the title. Vialle also blocked Cameron McAdoo from this feat in ’24. You must go back 3 and 4 seasons when Jett (2022) and Hunter Lawrence (2023) won Indy and the title.
- 199 AND 22 IN INDY: Travis Pastrana made his professional debut in Indy on February 12th, 2000, finishing 4th in the 250SX Class. Pastrana also earned one of his 14 career SMX League victories in Indy on February 10, 2001 (250SX Class). The next season in Indy Pastrana finished 8th in the 450SX Class in one of his 8 career 450SX Class top-10 finishes. Fellow AMA Hall-Of-Famer Chad Reed began his historic slate of victories in 2002 with his first 250SX Class win. 22 also closed out the RCA Dome & opened Lucas Oil Stadium with Premier Class victories.