It doesn’t take a genius to work out that three men are standing tall when it comes to the 2025 Monster Energy Supercross championship and those men are two-time AMA supercross champion, Eli Tomac and the two men to last win the indoor title, Chase Sexton, who won in 2023 and Jett Lawrence, who is the defending champion.

Now, Eli Tomac, who won the last round in San Diego is without question the most accomplished rider in the field, with five AMA motocross championships and his two AMA supercross championships. He also has an MXoN win to his name and is the second most successful rider in AMA history, when it comes to supercross main event wins. He has 53 to the 72 of “The King” Jeremy McGrath. Tomac in his final season of racing is enjoying his last stand, and as we all saw with Micheal Jordan, the last dance can sometimes be the most special. Great champions, always pull something out in those final moments in their careers and Tomac is more than capable of doing that.

“The days of getting a big lead and coasting in,” Tomac said. “They are hard to come by. We are not going to get those types of races with the field we have. We were wide open. I do (remember) and its nice to race with a guy like Jett and most of the 450 guys have self-awareness for that type of thing. You know its going to be tight and most of us know if we go wheel to wheel over a triple, it will not end well. You try and get in that flow state, but for me tonight, it was just full on for those 20 minutes. There wasn’t any time to take a break for myself.”

And the man with the number one plate on his bike and also a multi-time winner in AMA racing, Jett Lawrence isn’t short of success in USA either. A 250 and 450 motocross championship and the single AMA supercross championship, not to mention two Supermotocross titles to his name and of course, the 2024 MXoN victory with Team Australia. This kid is the real deal and for many of us, we see him as the next GOAT, but first he has to get around Tomac in 2025.

“He got me at the start,” Lawrence said. “We went back and forth in the first few laps, but then he got me back again after the whoops. He was riding really well. I would have to work my butt off to try and get close again. It was a lot of fun, and I like that racing, it’s cool when its clean and we are both pushing the limit and we are searching for lines and stuff like that. It was cool to watch from my standpoint. Like Eli said before, it’s fun racing somebody who you know isn’t going to try and chop your front wheel off, because you can use proper race craft. I had a lot of fun in that battle with Eli, coming through the pack and just getting close at the start, I got around the outside in the sand and my dumb ass when back to the inside and he got me back. Bit of a stupid mistake on my behalf and a bit of a forehead slap. I would have loved first, you always like to win, but you got to take the positives and just enjoy a fun race.”

Of course, that fun these two had last weekend will get old if one, or the other keeps winning, be it Tomac or Lawrence, but one thing we can count on, for us, the fans, its going to be dynamite. A man who will move to America in 2026, Lucas Coenen, the 2024 runner-up in the World MX2 championship cannot wait for every Sunday morning, to turn his laptop on and watch the AMA boys going head-to-head and no doubt, one day, he wants to also be racing the likes of Jett Lawrence.

“I am watching almost all of it in the morning when I wake up and it is very good. I always dreamt about it since I was a kid and when I am watching those guys, for sure the 450 class, Eli and Jett this weekend for example, it was really good. I like Jett and Hunter a lot, but I don’t have a big favourite, but I like Jett and Hunter, but I also like the battles, that I enjoy a lot. When I have Eli, a guy who was in front of me at the Nations and I see he just won in San Diego, it’s nice to see and that I rode with a legend like him already.”

Round one winner, Chase Sexton might have had a difficult San Diego round, but his A1 victory showed us he means business in 2025, and he wants that AMA supercross title back, to go with his 2024 AMA motocross championship. I would not be surprised to see him bounce back big time, and I think many of us see a Tomac, Lawrence, Sexton podium in A2. Although, in what order, NOBODY can know and that is why we go racing.

“Some nights aren’t your night, so we’ll come back at A2 and try to get back on the top step. It was a chaotic night for me. On the first lap I almost got landed on and then in [about] the next turn I fell over. It was just me not being ready to go at the gate drop, honestly. That kind of lit a fire under me and after that I really feel like I rode the best that I’ve ridden in a long time. I fell on the first lap and had to do a lot of work to catch back up. I felt like my riding was really good and the bike felt good, so honestly, we just need to work on our starts and get ready for Anaheim 2. I feel pretty confident with where I’m at, so I’m excited."

So, this Sunday morning, thousands of people throughout the World will be either getting up early Sunday morning (in Europe), or resting back in the sun in Australia, or in the evening in America and watching the Tomac vs Lawrence vs Sexton show, and I don’t think any of us will be disappointed.