With Ken Roczen and Cole Davies completing their AUSX appearances following dominant performances in Auckland and Geelong, the 2026 Boost Mobile AUSX Supercross Championship enters its final two rounds with a complicated title picture. This is how the battle for two separate titles – including the ‘Australian championship’ – shifts heading into Perth.

The distinction comes down to two separate competitions – AUSX, which began in Townsville, and the Motorcycling Australia (MA)-sanctioned Australian Supercross Championship that instead opened in Auckland.

We’ve covered the reasons behind the conflict, with MA not sanctioning the Townsville AUSX season-opener due to scheduling clashes with both the Australian Junior Motocross Championship (AJMX) and Monster Energy Motocross of Nations (MXoN) on the October 3 date.

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The result is two concurrent championships, with American Quad Lock Honda team regular Christian Craig leading the AUSX SX1 standings on 182 points, while Ken Roczen (Pipes Motorsport Group Suzuki) heads the Australian Supercross Championship in SX1 following his clean-sweep across Auckland and Geelong.

With Roczen’s cameo now complete, the current Monster Energy Supercross 450SX champion will score no further points. That leaves the battle between Craig, Luke Clout (KTM Racing Team) and Penrite Empire Kawasaki’s Cedric Soubeyras as the contest to follow – the three riders representing the leading contenders in the AUSX standings.

That AUSX tally sees Craig 35 points clear of Clout, while Soubeyras is a further 10 points back. In the Australian championship, however, Craig is second behind Roczen, but is only 25 points ahead of Clout, with Austin Politelli (Honda Racing) positioned a further 12 points back as the next rider in line. Confused, yet?

On this topic, an added development to consider is that organisers have reverted rounds four and five back to their originally scheduled race formats, reducing the total points on offer across Perth and Newcastle from 150 to 75. Make what you will of that, but Craig in particular is firmly in control of both title races in SX1.

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A similar situation is unfolding in the SX2 division, with Davies’ sweep across Auckland and Geelong seeing him lead the Australian Supercross Championship’s 250 class standings, while fresh Quad Lock Honda recruit Cameron McAdoo heads the Boost Mobile AUSX Supercross SX2 standings on 152 points – just two clear of Davies.

With Davies’ appearances also now done, attention turns to the likes of McAdoo, Lux Turner (Monster Energy Yamalube Yamaha) and Brodie Connolly (Quad Lock Honda). Turner’s aggressive move in Geelong perhaps takes on added significance when viewed in the context of how the points are shaping up.

Turner is now effectively second in the AUSX standings – 14 behind McAdoo – while Townsville winner Connolly is third on 129 after a tougher outing in Geelong. Adding to that, Turner scored 10 points more than McAdoo in Townsville, so they are closer in points for the AUSX series than they are in the Australian championship, where McAdoo has a 24-point buffer.

An outcome that AUSX organisers AME Group will ideally be hoping for is that each respective AUSX champion also claims the MA-sanctioned Australian supercross crown. That would help alleviate some of the confusion heading into 2027, particularly around the allocation of number-one plates and the series leaders’ red plates, which have also been points of contention this season.

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No rider displayed either in Townsville, while reigning Australian SX2 champion Ryder Kingsford (Honda Racing) was the sole red-plate holder in Auckland. Davies subsequently carried the red-plate honours in Geelong, but SX1 has remained without a red plate across all three rounds after Roczen elected not to wear it on the weekend.

Having the same champions emerge from both competitions would also make for a far smoother presentation during the live celebrations and broadcast at Newcastle’s season finale, which is important since this will likely be the only year that we have two separate championships running in parallel with each other. You’d hope so, anyway.

For now, the five-round Boost Mobile AUSX Supercross Championship remains the primary series to follow, with Craig and McAdoo leading their respective classes. With Roczen and Davies officially out of the equation upon return to the US, attention shifts firmly towards those contesting the entire season.

Perth this Saturday and Newcastle’s finale on 28 November will decide the titles, with just three finals remaining across the two events. But if the season ends with different champions crowned in the same classes, it will only further expose a confusing championship structure that should never have reached this point in the first place.