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2025 Birmingham Supercross Recap

Learning from past mistakes sometimes a champion doth makes.

Round 10 of the Monster Energy Supercross season brought the final Triple Crown event of the year to Protective Stadium in Birmingham, AL, the second such time in the southern state and perhaps, now, the season starts.

Chase Sexton won. And he didn't give up the Championship ghost by pinning it to win in it. The last Triple Crown in Arlington, Sexton had the overall secure until he decided to go for it during Race 3 and crashed. A devasting blow to his title chances and he followed that up with two mostly solid performances but hardly Championship rides.

This time around he was on fire. An aggressive pass on Jason Anderson, knocking him to the ground, in Race 1 to slip into second, then perceptive stalking of Aaron Plessinger until grabbing the lead with two minutes left. In Race 2 he passed Plessinger again for the lead, this time with about 10 minutes on the clock and rode safely to the checkers.

Finally, Race 3, Sexton grabbed the Holeshot, a three-peat within reach. But points leader Cooper Webb had other plans. The recipient of the overall at Arlington when Sexton went down, Webb, carrying a 15 point lead over Sexton heading into Birmingham, made the pass with about nine minutes left, then after a brief and minor back and forth, took the lead and won.

Sexton truly settled for second in Race 3 and easily took the overall on a 1-1-2 night securing a much-needed win.

"Triple crown is tough even if you win the first two main events, just like what happened to RJ (Hampshire), something can go wrong in the first turn. Thank God my starts were good tonight," Sexton said. "I got the Holeshot, rode pretty solid, the last main being a little conservative. Just so good to get that monkey off my back, get another win and get this season going in the right direction, finally."

Sexton also brings a history of winning in the last half of the season saying the last seven or eight rounds he tends to shine and not knowing why. Just admitting it's always been that way.

"This is my favorite part of the season," he said. "It's going to be a fight, should be a good fight to the end."

Thanks to smart riding and Webb falling off the podium for the first time since Anaheim 2, Sexton cut Webb's lead to 8.

Elsewhere, Malcom Stewart raced to a second overall on a 3-2-3 night and Plessinger rounded out the podium in third on a 2-3-5 night. Webb (7-4-1) took fourth overall and Ken Roczen (4-6-4) battled for fifth while riding with an AC separation in his shoulder.

Meanwhile, Anderson had a night to forget. Getting dropped by Sexton in Race 1 sent him from second to sixth, then in Race 2 he skidded his front wheel into the dirt while racing (literally) bar-to-bar with Webb (replays did not indicate any contact between the two racers) dropping him to eighth and in Race 3 a mis-jump sent him on top of the tuff blocks - 5-8-12 for seventh overall.

In the 250 East class, Seth Hammaker tried making it two in a row but an early crash in Race 1 while in second just behind RJ Hampshire curtailed that hope. Though he won the next two races, Nate Thrasher took a rather quite overall on a 3-3-2 night owning the tie-breaker over Hampshire and becoming the fifth different winner in five 250 East rounds.

"I felt coming into this season this was going to be my year. Tampa went OK I ended up crashing on the first lap but then we just kept fighting," said Thrasher who rode with a broken finger sustained in February during a practice crash. "Fighting every round. Just knew I'm tough enough to be out there. This week I was finally able to do "two days" before coming to this race. I'm just super excited and we're not out of it yet."

Hampshire, coming in off his Daytona win that popped him into title contention looked good for the overall with a victory in race 1 and second-place in Race 2 but as Sexton alluded, Hamsphire got caught up in a crash on the first turn in Race 3 and though he managed to get fifth, not enough for the overall.

Defending Champion and points leader Toim Vialle took third overall on a 2-5-3 night and increased his points lead from 1 over Max Anstie to 10 over Hampshire. Anstie broke his fibula in a qualifying crash.

A long haul to Seattle gives the 250 East a break as the West class resumes. Round 11 for the 450 class Saturday at (What's the stadium called now? Name changes hands more than a Las Vegas street hooker) Lumen Field.

from the top spot after an eighth place finish.