JETT LAWRENCE: Scores his first win of 2025 and closes within five points of the red plate. Lawrence now has nine 450SX Class victories, still good for 26th all-time. His 55th SMX victory moves him to one win out of the top-10 all-time. Jett’s ninth win in his 20th start is tied for the second most successful first 20 450SX Class starts in history: Bob Hannah- 10 wins, Lawrence- 9, McGrath- 9, & Stewart- 9. Six former 450SX Class Champions won no rounds in their first 20 450SX Class starts: Ricky Carmichael, Ricky Johnson, Cooper Webb, Jeff Ward, Jeff Stanton, & David Bailey.

KEN ROCZEN: With his second podium of the season and 71st of his 450SX Class career Roczen will carry the red plate for the first time since after the 2022 Opener. It is the first time Suzuki has held the red plate in SMX competition since the 2018 Western Regional Opener in Anaheim when Justin Hill carried the red plate for being the defending Champion. Before that, it was Roczen running the red plate for most of the 2016 Pro Motocross Championship. The last time Suzuki held the red plate in 450SX Class racing was rounds 2-4 of the 2015 season, once again with Ken Roczen. That makes 169 450SX Class rounds between Suzuki holding the red plate. Roczen was also making his 150th career 450SX Class start.

JASON ANDERSON: Nails his 52nd career 450SX Class podium and 92nd SMX podium tying him with Johnny O’mara for 21st on the all-time SMX podiums list. He passes Rick Johnson for 14th on the 450SX Class podiums list. Anderson seeks his 250th career top-10 finish in Glendale.

NOTES: Chase Sexton (4th) 180th career SMX start, 48th 450SX Class top 5, 129th SMX top 5. 2023’s Champ ranks second in points and only three points back. Hunter Lawrence (5th) Sixth 450SX Class top 5 finish in first 18 starts. 100th SMX top-10 finish in 117 tries. Shane McElrath (17th) Made 50th career 450SX Class start. Freddie Noren (21st) 200th career SMX start.

HISTORY LESSON: The first 450SX Class round held in Arizona was on May 10, 1986 in Tempe’s Sun Devil Stadium. Rick Johnson (Honda) won and clinched his first 450SX Class title in what was the penultimate round. The next season Jeff Ward won in Tempe just missing a title clinch by two points. He sealed the deal over Johnson in the L.A. finale. Sun Devil Stadium hosted three more rounds in 1991, 1997, and 1998.

CHASE FIELD: From 1999-2015 Supercross moved to Phoenix (Chase Field) becoming a mainstay, holding a round for 17 years in a row. Only nine 450SX Class venues hosted Supercross for more years in a row than Chase Field did. Jeremy McGrath won the first Supercross held in Chase Field en-route to his sixth Championship. In the last Chase Field Supercross in 2015, Cooper Webb (250SX) and Eli Tomac (450SX) earned their first career victories in their respective

A31ZONA: State Farm Stadium was built in 2006 and is home to the Arizona Cardinals. Supercross made its first voyage to Glendale in 2016, and Ken Roczen (Suzuki) stole the show. Supercross has hosted a Glendale round every season since, sans 2021. Arizona has hosted five races in Tempe, 17 in Phoenix, and eight in Glendale. This will be the 31st 450SX Class round held in Arizona and the ninth for State Farm Stadium.

WINNER’S CURSE: The winner of Glendale is a paltry 1/8 in doubling as 450SX Class Champion. Tomac in 2022 is the only athlete to pull it off and is the winningest rider in Arizona’s 450SX Class history, looking for his sixth win. He earned his first 450SX Class win in Chase Field and won a 250SX Class round in Phoenix 2013. Arizona Supercross winners are 14/30 in winning the title when combining all three venues.

250 Storylines: Anaheim 2 Recap

HAIDEN DEEGAN: First win of the season for the 2024 SMX World Champion closing him to just seven points off the red plate. Deegan now has four 250SX Class wins and 14 SMX wins in his career. He has an impressive 31 podiums in his first 52 SMX starts (60%).

JULIEN BEAUMER: Third straight podium to start season for the red-plated KTM athlete after zero in his first season. KTM has only won back-to-back 250SX Class titles once and it was three years straight from 2013-2015 (Roczen in 2013 West, Anderson in 2014 West, & Musquin in 2015 East).

COLE DAVIES: Nails first career podium in only third start. He has earned his first career top-10, first top 5, and first podium in the first three rounds (8th, 4th, & 3rd).

NOTES: Jordon Smith (4th) Ties Mike Brown for ninth on the all-time 250SX Class starts list and moves within three top 5’s of the all-time record (Martin Davalos- 46, Smith- 43). Drew Adams (8th) Competes in first career 250SX Class event, makes Main Event, scores top-10 finish as reserve Pro-Circuit Kawasaki Athlete at only 16 years old. He went 15-11 for 12th in his first career SMX start in Ironman during last years Pro Motocross Championship. Preston Masciangelo (21st) First career 250SX and SMX start for the 2024 Supercross Futures competitor.

250 Class: Arizona Facts

HISTORY LESSON: The First 250SX Class round in Arizona was on May 10, 1986, in Sun Devil Stadium. It was the penultimate round of the Western Regional Championship and Donny Schmit held a 24-point lead on Willie Surratt. Surratt won in Tempe and then in the L.A. Coliseum finale but came up 12 points short of the title.

CHASE FIELD: The 250SX Class holds the same venue history as the 450SX Class in Arizona. Nathan Ramsey won the first 250SX Class Supercross in Phoenix and won it again in 2006, seven seasons after his 1999 victory. It’s the longest a 250SX Class athlete has gone between winning at any specific venue.

A13ZONA: The 250SX Class held a Western Regional round in Chase Field every season from 1999-2015 before moving to State Farm Stadium in 2016. 2025 marks the ninth 250SX Class round in State Farm Stadium and 31st in Arizona.

CHAMPIONSHIP %: The winner of the Glendale 250SX Class round has won the Western Regional title in 4/8 seasons, including RJ Hampshire last year. The overall percentage across the 250SX Class in Arizona is 13/30 (43%). The Lawrence brothers won the 2022-2023 State Farm Stadium 250SX Class rounds, Hunter in 2022 and Jett in 2023. They each won the Western Regional title in those seasons.+