This year’s Monster Energy Supercross Championship delivered three highly entertaining title fights across the 450SX and 250SX divisions, as new names emerged, established contenders shone, and rookies made an explosive arrival on the scene. In this Rated feature, we take a look at how some of the key names performed across the 2025 series.

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Rider: Cooper Webb
Rating: A+
Rundown: Kicking this piece off with the 2025 450SX champion, there’s no denying that this year was a dream season for the now three-time title holder, Cooper Webb. In all honesty, when Webb posted a 4-3 scorecard start to this season, the writing was probably on the wall that this would be a good one for a rider who notoriously emphasizes being in contention later on in the year. For Webb to have that speed at the beginning of the season is dangerous for the competition, which is made all the more remarkable given he was contemplating even lining up after a UCL injury in early December. Since the introduction of Jett Lawrence to the class, as well as running with Chase Sexton, it really seems like Webb – among others – has made significant, outright speed gains. They were forced to, given the speed differential that the generation shift of Lawrence and Sexton brought – however, what Webb has in spades is smarts and experience, with this title showing the depth of his skillset when harmonized.

Rider: Chase Sexton
Rating: A+
Rundown: An A+ for a rider who finished in second place? Yeah, we’re doing it. Chase Sexton was so impressive this year, taking a now all-timer Cooper Webb down to the very last race in Salt Lake City. Sexton wears a lot of criticism – a lot of it unjustly given how good he is – and perhaps the biggest triumph of his season was mentally overcoming the demons that were haunting him around the mid-season mark. Again, everyone was on his back about what he does wrong, what he needs to be doing, so on and so forth, which is something that would easily wear you down and put you in a challenging mindframe. Not only did Sexton respond, but he did so in extremely solid fashion, turning on the afterburners later on in the season and claiming the last four of five race wins to ensure the championship wasn’t going down without a fight. Any questions of Sexton’s mental fortitude need to be put to rest after 2025 – that was a hell of a performance from the number four, and not many people on the planet can take it to Webb in such a way.

Rider: Haiden Deegan
Rating: A
Rundown: The Deegs! One thing cannot be understated, and that is the fact that he brings a lot of color to the series, which we feel is very welcome. Love him or hate him, it doesn’t really matter, most will tune in when he races, most will jump online to offer their commentary on the teenager, and the whole industry knows the name Haiden Deegan. He captured the elusive (even though it’s only his third 250SX season) 250SX West regional crown, in a demonstration of both consistency throughout the season and speed when it was needed. It wasn’t a perfect run, which he pointed out, and in comparison to his prowess outdoors, there is still some work to be done to truly nail the Supercross discipline. Nevertheless, he is well on his way, and having such a polarizing figure in the sport is fantastic, for both now and into the future.

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Rider: Julien Beaumer
Rating: B+
Rundown: Julien ‘JuJu’ Beaumer was hot during the opening rounds of this year’s Supercross season, and really ‘emerged’ this year, showing that he has the pace to be a class front-runner, and possibly a champion in the future. It was an impressive jump from his rookie campaign, although the wheels did fall off the wagon around the mid-point of the series, with Beaumer citing both discomfort in the ruts (he is from Arizona after all) and a dislocated shoulder destabilising his season. He also, as many have, tried to go toe-to-toe with Deegs, and like many also have, he came off second best on that one, with Deegan welcoming the controversy while continuing to thrive at the head of the field. There are a lot of takeaways for Beaumer this season, and P2 in a sophomore campaign is a solid result. It’ll be interesting to see whether he can make that leap to being a champion next year – year three is a telling one for riders – so we’ll be watching to see whether JuJu is the real deal.

Rider: Cole Davies
Rating: A-
Rundown: It was so much fun to watch Cole Davies this year, both on and off the track. As everyone knows, he is a weapon – a true supercrosser, with technique, timing, racecraft, and all the rest for him to go on to greatness one day. It’s not often you come across these pure-blood supercross riders, actually – take Deegan, or even Lawrence for that matter, there is always an affinity towards outdoors first, as that’s where things begin. Not to say that Davies isn’t a handy outdoor rider, this is yet to be fully fleshed out, but he has that Jeremy McGrath, James Stewart, Chad Reed-esque supercross gravity about him, which will be so exciting to watch unfold. Two wins this season, some brilliant rides, you really can’t ask for too much more, and collectively we probably agree that a title in just his second season is not at all out of the question. Not many people can do that – for Deegan and Lawrence it took three years, so just keep an eye out for some sneaky greatness to unfold over at the Davies camp in the next few years.

Rider: Seth Hammaker
Rating: A-
Rundown: We’re still a little heartbroken for Seth Hammaker. If there were a nicest, most down-to-earth rider award to hand out, surely he would be a prime candidate. The improvements that Hammaker has made throughout this season cannot be understated, because there was a time when he appeared unable to transcend that ‘fast but crash’ stigma that a lot of 250SX riders fall prey to. This season he certainly performed a paradigm shift, was this close to capturing a maiden championship, and earning the Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki team their first indoor title since 2017 with Justin Hill. That feels like a crime to type given the pure dominance of the PC squad during the 90s-2000s era, and yet here we are. Anyway, Seth will live to fight another day, and a huge congratulations to him and his entire team, the turnaround has been remarkable.

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Rider: RJ Hampshire
Rating: B+
Rundown: RJ Hampshire was the cause of Hammaker’s heartbreak, but he had to do it in a bid to earn his second 250SX title in Salt Lake City. It was a move that drew a lot of criticism, although it was fully necessary from a championship perspective, but he was obviously not stoked that he went down in the process. There really aren’t many riders like Hampshire – maybe Cameron McAdoo – who will give you the whole spectrum of racing in one night, let alone a championship. The 250 East class series began with RJ going eight rounds with a tuff block and capturing an 18th in Tampa, which was then balanced with a race win at Daytona. There was the epic belly-flop in the mud off the start in Foxborough, balanced by four podium finishes in the season. Lastly, a visit to the LCQ in Salt Lake City after getting a wire wrapped around his rear wheel during the heat race, followed by a hard-charge through the field and subsequent deletion of both he and Hammaker, just kind of wraps things up quite nicely here. A rating for this? Um, B+ maybe?

Rider: Tom Vialle
Rating: A-
Rundown: So we have the above Hollywood epic, and then there is the ever-steady and calculated Tom Vialle. Somehow, the above tale and Vialle’s season ended pretty much at the same point as the championship points were super-tight entering the finale in Salt Lake City. Granted, Vialle had a horror in the Foxborough mud, where he held fifth place up until the final two laps, ultimately crashing out of position and earning 22nd place. He bled points badly at that round, but otherwise, his season was pretty solid. He wasn’t the fastest, as he identified himself, although he just kept the championship in focus, wanting to stay in the hunt as his contenders dropped like flies around him. In the end, he got it done with two minutes to spare in the season, which sums up this year’s 250SX East title. Wild, wacky, and tumultuous. Vialle will now step up into the 450s for next year, and given his smooth style, we think he’ll translate quite nicely. The parallels to Marvin Musquin are there, with Vialle set up to have a strong premier class career.