SuperMotocross World Championship

The SuperMotocross World Championship (official name as AMA SuperMotocross Championship) is the premier combined discipline of American off-road motorcycle racing. Conceived in 2023 after the AMA Supercross Championship lost its FIM World Championship status, the series consists of the aforementioned Supercross series and the AMA Motocross Championship, followed by two playoff races and a final to determine the SuperMotocross world champion.

Background

AMA Supercross Championship

The AMA Supercross Championship (commercially known as Monster Energy AMA Supercross) is the premier American stadium motorcycle racing series. Founded by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) in 1974, the AMA Supercross Championship races are held from January through early May. Supercross is a variant of motocross which involves off-road motorcycles on a constructed dirt track consisting of steep jumps and obstacles; the tracks are usually constructed inside a sports stadium. The easy accessibility and comfort of these stadium venues helped supercross surpass off-road motocross as a spectator attraction in the United States by the late 1970s.

The sport of Supercross is best described as motocross racing that takes place within the confines of a sports stadium. The tracks are typically shorter in length than a standard motocross track. They feature a combination of man-made obstacles such as whoop sections (where riders skim along the tops of multiple bumps), rhythm sections (irregular series of jumps with a variety of combination options), and triple jumps (three jumps in a row that riders normally clear in a single leap of 70 feet or more). Many of the turns have banked berms, but some are flat. It takes roughly five hundred truckloads of dirt to make up a supercross track. Soil conditions can be hard-packed, soft, muddy, sandy, rutted, or any combination thereof.

AMA Motocross Championship

The AMA Motocross Championship (commercially known as Pro Motocross Championship) is the American national outdoor motorcycle racing series. The motocross race series was founded and sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) in 1972. The series is the premier motocross competition in the United States and is sanctioned by AMA Pro Racing and managed by MX Sports Pro Racing.

Format The Series will be held from January until September, consisting of:

17 AMA Supercross Championship rounds (January–May) 11 AMA Motocross Championship rounds (May–September) 2 SuperMotocross Playoffs and a SuperMotocross World Championship Final As of 2026 only the top 20 in the combined standing for the AMA Supercross and AMA Motocross Championship in the 250 and 450 class qualify for the SuperMotocross playoffs and are automatically qualified and seeded for each round of the SuperMotocross World Championship. Under the current format the points are reset based on the combined standings with the riders further up in the combined standings starting the SuperMotocross playoffs with more points than those lower down the standings.

Riders from 21st-30th in the end of season combined standings can also qualify for the main event of each event through a Last Chance Qualifier, with the top 2 from the qualifier competing in the main events with the seeded riders. The LCQ is also open to riders who won a supercross main event or motocross moto if they did not finish inside the top 30. If a seeded top 20 rider is unable to compete in an event, an additional opportunity to qualify will be given to riders in the LCQ.

The first playoff race awards regular points, while the second playoff race awards double points and the world championship race awards triple points.

Champions SuperMotocross champions are crowned each year, alongside the champions of the individual series which will continue to be awarded. +SuperMotocross World Champions (2023–present)Year450cc Class450cc Individual Series Champions250cc Class250cc Individual Series ChampionsSX ChampionMX ChampionSX ChampionMX Champion2023 Jett Lawrence (Honda) Chase Sexton (Honda) Jett Lawrence (Honda) Haiden Deegan (Yamaha) Hunter Lawrence (Honda) (East) Jett Lawrence (Honda) (West) Hunter Lawrence (Honda)2024 Jett Lawrence (Honda) Jett Lawrence (Honda) Chase Sexton (KTM) Haiden Deegan (Yamaha) Tom Vialle (KTM) (East) RJ Hampshire (Husqvarna) (West) Haiden Deegan (Yamaha)2025 Jett Lawrence (Honda) Cooper Webb (Yamaha) Jett Lawrence (Honda) Jo Shimoda (Honda) Tom Vialle (KTM) (East) Haiden Deegan (Yamaha) (West) Haiden Deegan (Yamaha) 2026 Jorge Prado (KTM) Ken Roczen (Suzuki) Hunter Lawrence (Honda) Levi Kitchen (Kawasaki) Cole Davies (Yamaha) (East) Haiden Deegan (Yamaha) (West) Cole Davies (Yamaha)

Statistics Most Championships

450 Class Titles 250 Class Titles Jett Lawrence3 Haiden Deegan2 Jorge Prado1 Jo Shimoda1 Levi Kitchen1

SuperMotocross all time wins list 450 Class Wins 250 Class Wins Jett Lawrence6 Haiden Deegan4 Hunter Lawrence2 Jo Shimoda 3 Haiden Deegan2 Hunter Lawrence1 Chase Sexton1 Pierce Brown1 Jorge Prado1 Levi Kitchen1 Julien Beaumer1 Cole Davies1

Television coverage Since 2023, the tv partners will be from the NBC family of networks; NBC, NBCSN (Since 2026) and Peacock (USA and CNBC previously aired races from 2023–2025 but is no longer with the company). NetworkCoverageNBCSelect races, including up to five Supercross races live and up to five on delay, up to four Motocross races live and one of the SuperMotocross Playoff races on delayUSA NetworkSupercross season opener and finale live, two Motocross races on delay and SuperMotocross Playoff 1 and Finale live from 2023–2025PeacockEvery race across all series liveCNBCEvery race across all series on next day replay from 2023–2025NBCSNSelect races live as its schedule allows since 2026. Source:

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