2025 Monster Energy Supercross Recap - Denver

If you ever think that a Supercross Championship is over, you can point to Denver 2023 as to why things aren't over until the final checkered flag flies. After last week, though, it'd be hard to say that Cooper Webb should be feeling anything other than great with his situation as of two rounds to go. Title rival Chase Sexton is no longer in control of his own destiny, but he had his part nailed down, pacing qualifying in the afternoon, going a full second faster than Webb. Not exactly an easy track at a mile high because of extra water, but not having to win with a depleted field is as good as you can ask for.

The 250 West title hunt is esentially in the same boat as the 450 hunt, just with an extra five points in the bank for leader Haiden Deegan, but things got a bit spicy between he and teammate Cole Davies during qualifying. The No. 38 got into the No. 100 pretty quickly into the opening session, and based on a Kellen Brauer tweet, there was a staredown over the finish jump right before this. Trouble in paradise for Bobby Reagan's two young guns?

Daytime Program/Injury Notes: 

- For those still interested in donating in helping Jerry Robin's recovery efforts, here is his Road2Recovery link, which has help raised over $160,000 as of Yesterday.

- Ken Roczen was shutdown for these last two rounds by Suzuki earlier in the week.

- In 'GP injury news, Tim Gajser is getting his shoulder operated on, and Jeffrey Herlings broke his rib yesterday in the MXGP of Portugal qualifier Moto. Door is wide open for Romain Febvre to get title No. 2 or for the likely America bound (2027) Lucas Coenen to win his first.

- 250 East Fastest Qualifier: No. 23 Julien Beaumer (50.007) (Three-tenths faster than anyone else).

- 450 Fastest Qualifier: No. 4 Chase Sexton (49.224)

Haiden Deegan Wins 2025 250 West Championship

Well, that's certainly one way to race a teammate. While not as dirty as what he did to Coty Schock a year ago in Birmingham, and not worth a penalty in my book, Deegan racing a teammate like that is Vince Freise levels of slimey. Surpirsingly, that wasn't even the worst thing he did last night, making sure he let you (yes, you reading this) know that you doubted him his whole life despite every reputable Moto journalist penciling him in to win the 250 West Crown long before we got to A1. The "no one believed in us/me" epidemic needs to be stopped at all costs. In any case, he seemed fine with how things went, and he's now hit the trifecta of 250 Championships. I don't expect this to affect his jump-up timeline; however, you should expect 250 SX again next year before switching to the big bike for outdoors.

Looking ahead, the only thing left for Deegan on a 250 is becoming one of about two dozen riders with 250 class SX Main Event wins and then one of around a dozen to rack up multiple 250 SX and MX Championships. Realistically, he could probably jump up next year if Yamaha wanted to since they control the 450 budget for Star, but I don't think another 250 SX season would be the end of the world. There is no real bad way about going about it.

Shoutout to Cole Davies while we're here. I can't imagine his post-race interview was what he actually thinks, but that's a hell of a way to get composed and not make an already bad team situation worse. That said, this is the second time Deegan has done this to a teammate (Jordon Smith 2023 Detroit), so if that's how he's gonna race you, there's no reason not to do the same moving forward.

250 West Class Denver Top 10 and Points Standings

Another Sexton Tour de Force But (Likely) Too Little Too Late

I wasn't super surprised to see Sexton win in the fashion that he did, especially after he and Webb battled out with the same result in the heat race, but man, imagine the hype right now had Pittsburgh gone differently. He was excellent in the whoops, better than anyone, Malcolm Stewart included, really, and block the pass or not; Sexton was going to get him and drop him regardless. Really strong win, and he's now one off of Jean-Michel Bayle for a share of 17th on the All-Time wins list.

Also, I can understand why Sexton was upset over Webb kind of chopping him off in that opening rhythm, but I don't think that was anything malicious or intentional on Coop's end. Just tight racing and jockeying for position in close quarters. If anything, Webb was putting himself at as much risk as Sexton was in there.

On the opposite end of teammate relations with Star Yamaha, Justin Cooper should get an extra zero or two in his podium bonus for how he raced at the end. Things worked out perfectly in that he wasn't so presured by Malcolm that he had to force the issue on Webb, but also crafty enough to keep him at bay. I liked that double single into that second-to-last bowl corner that Malcolm broke out those final few laps, and I was kind of shocked he couldn't make things stick on Cooper, but this was another excellent night for the 32 as well. I'm genuinely excited to see if performances like this will be more common with a healthier field in 2026 because he's shown off some great pace here in the back half of the season.

450 Class Denver Top 10 and Points Standings

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