2026 Birmingham Supercross Results (Updated)

Supercross is back in action in Birmingham, Alabama for round 10 of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross and SuperMotocross World Championship. Tonight essentially starts the second half of the season along with being an East/West Showdown. The SMX Next racers also have their chance to take center stage. Birmingham’s track conditions are tricky as half the track is soft and rutted with the other half being dry and dusty.

After two main events, Hunter Lawrence and Cole Davies are the night’s official winners.

450SX MAIN EVENT

Jorge Prado took the holeshot but Hunter Lawrence quickly moved to the lead on lap one. Lawrence went untouched for the entire main event even with eventual pressure from Ken Roczen. Roczen put in a series of hot laps and cut down the gap to Lawrence but was never close enough to make a real run at the lead. Lawrence led all 25 laps by a margin of three seconds or more and claimed his third win in the last four rounds. More importantly, he extends his points lead to nine over Eli Tomac.

“It feels good,” Lawrence said. “I’m just taking it one race at a time. It’s easy to think about the end result, which is the title, but I’m just trying to stay focused in the moment. Anything can happen, as we’ve seen tonight, so I’m just happy to be up here.”

Ken Roczen charged up to second at the checkered flag. The Suzuki rider rounded lap one in 12th place but fought hard to find his way to second by lap seven. Roczen made a good run of laps and closed the gap to Lawrence but a series of mistakes and congestion with lapped riders became too much to overcome. He landed another second and made up good points in the championship hunt.

“I’m ecstatic, honestly,” Roczen said. “I think I rode really well, but you can’t start 15th and expect to win a race. Inconsistency on the start [is something] I’m not happy with. I rode so good tonight. Coulda, woulda, shoulda, but with racing like that I’m totally fine with it.”

Eli Tomac finished third on the night. The Red Bull KTM rider crashed in the heat race and was forced to qualify through the LCQ. Despite a poor gate pick, Tomac came out clean and put himself in the mix early on. He had good pace in the beginning of the main event but was eventually dropped from the leaders as he drifted back to a lonely third, more than 30 seconds back from Lawrence and Roczen. A third place result sees him lose more points to Lawrence in the title chase as Tomac is now nine back.

“I just wasn’t as good tonight as the front two,” Tomac said. “That’s it. Of course, the LCQ was very stressful and a high-pressure moment, but I got myself out there to a good start [in the Main Event] on the outside gate and just got beat tonight. Just a little bit off. It’s tough, one of those nights, but we’ll try to regroup next week and see if we can get back up front.”

Justin Cooper finished one spot behind Tomac after the two came together earlier in the heat race. “Heat race was spicy,” Cooper said. “Glad to walk away from that one just sore and able to salvage P4 in Birmingham.”

Malcolm Stewart rounded out the top five with his season-best finish of fifth.“Tonight, it was a pretty gnarly fifth place,” Stewart said. “I feel like the track broke down a lot with seven or eight minutes to go in the main event, but the heat race was really good – I’m just starting to get back into my flow and felt good all day.”

Cooper Webb fell and later finished sixth which dropped him further in the points standings. Jorge Prado took seventh ahead of Colt Nichols, Garrett Marchbanks, and Jordon Smith. Marchbanks was later penalized and docked one position.

450SX OVERALL RESULTS (Top 10)

250SX East/West Showdown

Haiden Deegan scored an exciting win in the East West Showdown. After starting well outside the top five, the West Coast points leader continued to chip away as the laps wore on. He set the fastest lap of the race on lap eight and found himself knocking on the door for a podium position. After passing through Seth Hammaker and Levi Kitchen, Deegan set his sights on the lead battle between Jo Shimoda and Cole Davies. He made two quick moves to pass both riders in succession before sprinting away with the win. Deegan showed he’s the best 250 rider on either coast as he claimed his sixth win in a row. He was later penalized one position for switching lanes in the split lane and docked the win. He is officially credited with second.

Davies and Shimoda battled it out for the entire race. The two went back and forth at the front of the field until Deegan passed through to the lead. The two East Coast contenders took things down to the final lap as Shimoda passed going through the whoops. Davies quickly retaliated in the following turn and got the spot back. Shimoda tried to fight back but spun out going down the start straight and allowed Seth Hammaker to sneak by. This move secured Davies in second, Hammaker third, and Shimoda back fourth.

“Looking at the positives, I gained points tonight, but I’m not exactly happy with that,” Davies said. “I rode terrible, to be honest. I was just overriding. We still made gains in points so I’m happy with that, but I’m not happy with my riding. It is what it is and we’re on to the next round.”

“I’m a little disappointed,” Hammaker said. “You always want to come out and win at the showdowns, but I didn’t have it tonight. Those other guys were riding good. Early on and midway through the race I didn’t really have the pace. I felt better at the end but that’s not when you need it. It’s good to know I have the endurance, but I need to be better at the beginning. Other than that, solid night.”

With their respective finishes, Deegan and Davies further extend their points leads. After the race Deegan was penalized for changing lanes in the split lane. The AMA called this cutting the track and added a penalty of one position which moved Deegan to second and gave Davies the overall win.

“Everyone knows who won,” Deegan said. “I started in 10th place, ran over a maker and got docked. Little gift to the east boys but I kicked their butt straight up…Once I saw Hammaker, Jo, and Davies all bunched up in a battle I was like ‘I’m gonna take advantage of this.’ They started getting into it a little bit and I was able to make some passes.”

Shimoda just missed an overall podium as he crossed the line in fourth and dropped to third in the championship hunt. “Disappointed in my performance,” Shimoda said. “[Need to] figure some things out this week and go back at it.”

Levi Kitchen led the first half of the race before finishing an eventual fifth. He moved to third in the 250SX West points thanks to a mishap from Ryder DiFrancesco. “I put myself in a good position early, but I’m frustrated with how it ended,” Kitchen said. “I’ve been dealing with a back injury for the last couple of weeks, so it was difficult to maintain that intensity throughout the whole main event. I plan on getting an MRI this week to get everything checked out.”

Daxton Bennick finished sixth ahead of Max Anstie, Max Vohland, Coty Schock, and Nate Thrasher.

250SX OVERALL RESULTS (Top 10)

SMX NEXT

Another new winner in SMX Next emerged to make it four different winners in as many rounds. A big crash off the start immediately dropped the Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing duo of Kayden Minear and Landen Gordon out of contention. This allowed Monster Energy Kawasaki Team Green’s Vincent Wey to take full advantage of the holeshot as he turned that into a wire-to-wire performance in which he never faced a serious challenge. Wey, the son of former SMX racer Nick Wey, consistently added to his lead throughout the 8 Minutes + 1 Lap Main Event to capture his first SMX Next victory. Fellow Monster Energy Kawasaki Team Green racer Kade Johnson finished second for a 1-2 sweep, while ClubMX Yamaha’s Ryder Malinoski finished third.

“That was the sickest race of my life,” Wey said. “I got a great start and hit my marks every single lap. That was so much fun. Me and my dad have had a lot of long days, just logging laps. We came here last year, and I think I crashed every single time I went on the track. I came in here with the mindset to do better than last year and I think I did that.”

SMX NEXT OVERALL RESULTS (Top 10)

BRIELFY

Bogle Back – Justin Bogle was back in action as he filled in for Jason Anderson on the Twisted Tea Suzuki team. Bogle raced for the same team back in 2022 rejoined after coaching Colt Nichols throughout this season. He finished 18th in the 450 main event. “Tonight was interesting,” said Justin Bogle. “It was fun. Qualifying was rough—it’s been a long time since I’ve raced. The heat race was awesome though; I finished in sixth place and went straight to the main. I was really pumped on that. In the main event, I went out there and finished 18th, so not great, but we will work into it. I am really happy and loving being back at the races, so it’s really cool.”

Pain For Plessinger – Another tough night for Aaron Plessinger who did not finish the race for the second round in a row.
“I hit a rock on the face of a jump, and I felt the rear-end start to rise, which is when I knew I wasn’t going to make the triple. I tried to ditch the bike, but it was too late, and the bars hit my knees. After that it was a bit of a blur – I think I did a flip or two and, when I landed, I heard something really crunch so that was the end of my night. I went to the Medical Unit, they checked me out, and I am in one piece, but I am just sore and bummed out. I felt like we made a lot of good progress in the break, but I just have to keep grinding to get to where we need to be.”

Swoll Sidelined – Jalek Swoll bowed out of the 250SX East/West Showdown after injuring his right leg in timed qualifying. The Triumph rider sat 10th in the 250SX East points prior to Alabama and he returned home to assess the damage.
“Was P3 in qualifying and hit a weird pocket in the rhythm that did some damage unfortunately,” Swoll posted online. “Not gonna lie [it] sucks there’s no other way to put it, so much time and investment is put in to compete at this level and set back after set back has definitely tested me mentally but at the end of the day as it’s contract year for me if that was my last race day as a racer I’m absolutely proud of the accomplishments along the way and what I’ve achieved them through.”

Birmingham Notes – Evan Ferry was penalized for aggressive riding during the 250 East heat race. He lost five championship points, two rider license points, and a fine. Garrett Marchbanks and Cole Thompson received the same penalty as Haiden Deegan for cutting the track in the split lane and were both docked one position. Eli Tomac earned his fourth career LCQ win. Cole Davies has 54% podium rate as this marked his seventh podium in 13 starts. Deegan’s 23rd 250SX podium podium puts him eighth all time, tying Zach Osborne, Christian Craig, Jett Lawrence, & Jeremy McGrath.

QUALIFYING

Eli Tomac is the fastest rider on track today as he qualifies first in the 450SX division. Tomac is the only rider in the 50-second range and is four-tenths quicker than points leader Hunter Lawrence. Tomac is still second in the championship points and needs every advantage he can get in the night show. Hunter Lawrence leads the points coming into round 10 and clocked second overall behind Tomac. Ken Roczen is in the hunt too as he grabbed third overall, two-tenths back from Lawrence. Cooper Webb looked good in these tight conditions for fourth overall, one spot better than his Yamaha teammate Justin Cooper.

450SX OVERALL QUALIFYING RESULTS (Top 10)

250SX QUALIFYING

Levi Kitchen grabbed the fastest time in the 250SX West division with Ryder DiFrancesco putting his Husqvarna on top in the second session. Seth Hammaker ran the best time in both of the East sessions and set the fastest overall lap for the 250 division. His time marked the only 250 rider in the 51-second range. Kitchen’s lap held up for second overall with Pierce Brown rounding out the top three. Interesting that neither of the points leaders were inside the top five for overall lap times as both Deegan and Davies qualified sixth and ninth respectively.

250SX OVERALL QUALIFYING RESULTS (Top 10)

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