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A fast-paced Round 4 of the 2026 Monster Energy Supercross seas as the first of three Triple Crown events for the season opened at NRG Stadium on Saturday in Houston.

The Triple Crown debuted in 2018 taking up three rounds and features three shortened Main Events (12 minutes each race for 450; 10 minutes each race for 250) instead of one long race with results calculated by Olympic style scoring. The racer with the least points (finished determines points) totaled from their finish in all three races wins the overall round.

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The shortened races arguably give riders who hold on to leads in traditional Main Events then succumb to riders with better physical fitness or acuity a chance at winning. And sometimes, a rider wins the overall without crossing the checkers once. Such was the case on Saturday.

Defending Champion Cooper Webb desperately needed a win after a slow start to the season, even without so much a podium, and he finally got one. Nope, he didn't win a race not really even close, but his 4-2-3 finishes on the night left him on the top spot of the podium. Tangling with RJ Hampshire at the finish line jump at the close of Lap 1 in Race 3 which almost sent him to the dirt didn't phase him as he raced back from ninth to third and captured the overall.

"It feels amazing, I can't even put it into words, Webb said. Obviously it's weird not winning a Main Event but still I'll take any skin I can get right now. It's been a really tough month, mentally, physically, and emotionally - just to come in here today and even yesterday, a rough day. It's never over. Like I said last week I felt it was a nail in the coffin but I'm proud of myself. A Cooper Webb move right there to come back a week later put myself in a good position and win."

The win put Webb 17 points out of first place in the standings rather than the steep 24 point deficit he faced entering the round. Hunter Lawrence (7-1-2) had his fingers on his first career 450 class win until Webb but his pass on Jason Anderson for third in the final race gave him the necessary points (or maybe its unnecessary points) to grab the overall. Lawrence settled for second on the tie-breaker over Ken Roczen. It was Lawrence's third straight second-place finish, a crash in race 1 with about a minute on the clock that dropped him from third to seventh kept him from the top spot of the podium.

Roczen (1-5-4) took third overall but had he overtaken Webb as he tried to in the final laps of Race 3, he would have secured the overall. Just how things settle in the madhouse of the Triple Crown!

Eli Tomac endured a near season-ending crash in Race 2 when on a charge upfront passing riders like sitting pegs he endo-ed over the handlebars after his front wheel hit the top of a jump he failed to clear. Turns out Tomac stomped on his rear brake. if not for finishing 13th in that race for a well-managed fourth-overall, Tomac likely would have stepped somewhere on the podium with his third in Race 1 and dominating win in Race 3. Tomac now holds a slim four-point lead over Lawrence in the standings after opening the season with two wins and a third. Chase Sexton, winner the week before, rounded out the Top 5 with a 2-9-6 evening.

Elsewhere, Anderson (6-7-5) battled near the front in Race 3 ultimately losing ground to Lawrene, Webb and Roczen to take sixth-overall and Jorge Prado g(5-3-11) grabbed two of three Holeshots, taking seventh overall. 250 West class

The defending champion dominated all three races for the sweep and other than him drawing his finger guns to pretend-shoot rival Levi Kitchen (2-2-3) as he crossed the checkers in the first two races, little drama unfolded.

Kitchen's 2-2-3 evening landed him second for his first podium of the year as he ended a string of crashing early in the race and avoided banging bars during a close pass from his rival for the lead in Race 2 with two minutes on the clock.

"It's been a rough start for sure," said Kitchen, who did not trade finger-gun fire for finger-gun fire but rather complimented his rival's racing acumen. "I'm pretty happy with tonight. Just trying to go out there and do my best."

Michael Mosiman (4-14-8) followed his second-place finish at Anaheim 2 with an unfortunate eighth-overall thanks to going down in Race 2. The result drops him from second in the standings to third, 20 points back. Opening round winner Max Anstie (10-6-2) takes back the second-place spot in the standings, 19 points out, managing a sixth overall after getting hung up in a pack of riders which sent him to the ground in Race 1 landing him 10th to start his evening. Cameron McAdoo (3-3-4) took third overall.

Supercross hits the desert for Round 5 on Saturday at State farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ.