Red Bull KTM Factory Racing's Chase Sexton earned a pivotal victory at Round 13 of the 2025 AMA Supercross Championship in Philadelphia, gaining valuable points toward his 450SX title prospects with just four rounds remaining. Sexton recorded the fastest qualifying time via a scorching final lap onboard his KTM 450 SX-F FACTORY EDITION, before charging to a convincing Heat Race win to open his race day.

A come-from-behind ride after a first-turn tangle in the Main Event saw Sexton progressively climb his way through the 450SX field, with a measured performance seeing him take the lead around the halfway point. From there, he would keep the gap to second place to just above four seconds, claiming what was a stellar result for his fourth win of the season.

Chase Sexton: All I can do, really, is win from here on out, so today was good! I haven’t won a normal Main Event since Anaheim 1, so that was a big focus for me today, and I am happy to have been able to do that. The track was tough, I came into the first turn with AP [Aaron Plessinger] in the Main Event and maybe cut him off a bit too much, and he went down, and I went way wide, so I had my work cut out for me. Overall, though, the ride was really good for me. I felt the flow all day today, so that was nice.

I didn’t have the greatest race last weekend so I was hoping for a dry race just so we can go out there and battle like we know how. Last week was kind of – for me at least, I don’t know AP might say something different – but I was just trying to make it around the track and I’ve never really been in that situation before, I feel like normally mud races you’re kind of like you can still kind of race, but last weekend it was just full survival mode. When I seen Bobcats on the track trying to drag bikes off, that’s normally not a good thing. So, it was nice that the track was dry they did a really good job. I haven’t looked at the weather for next weekend, but hopefully it’s dry. These Northeast races this time of the year, you don’t know what you’re going to get, it can be really wet, or it can be perfect, so we’ll see.

Yeah, it was a good race. I mean, like Coop said they both were pretty far back off the start and I kind of blocked him before the double and then I knew exactly where he was, he was right behind me. I could hear him, that Yamaha is pretty loud, so I knew he was going to be fighting all the way to the end, that’s just the type of racer he is – he’s strong. I knew I was in for a long main event, but I just tried to pick off my laps and not do anything crazy, I missed the double one lap, and that was really my only mistake.

So I just tried to kind of pick off laps, but it was kind of a hard track to push on, you really had to be patient and there wasn’t, well there was some separation, but it wasn’t crazy so you really just had to inch away one lap at a time. Once I got in the lead, I feel like we ran into lappers after that, so I never felt like I even led the race, I was just kind of trying to pick my way through people. Thankfully, the lappers were pretty good tonight, I had a few run-ins but nothing crazy. I just tried to be smart and know when to push and know when to kind of back off a little.