2025 Pittsburgh Supercross Round 15 Results (2025)

Ryan Nitzen | April 26, 2025

Cooper Webb delivered a crucial win that puts him in the driver’s seat for the remaining two rounds of the 2025 Monster Energy Supercross Championship. After watching his points lead diminish in the past two races to challenger Chase Sexton, Webb stopped the bleeding by securing a clutch victory over Sexton at the Pittsburgh Supercross.

The top two riders in the championship, Webb and Sexton, started the main event 1-2, with Webb taking an early lead ahead of Sexton and the rest of the field. Despite constant pressure from Sexton throughout all 26 laps on a challenging racetrack, Webb never faltered and secured the win by just 1.5 seconds in one of the most important and toughest victories of his career. Webb now enjoys a “comfortable” 12-point cushion over Sexton with only two rounds remaining. Even if Sexton wins the next two races, the KTM rider will need some help if he intends to claim a second Supercross title. If things go in Webb’s favor, he’ll become a three-time Supercross Champion.

Webb nabbed the holeshot while Sexton settled into second place, setting the stage for an all-out battle between the two title contenders. Webb opened up a small gap but couldn’t shake Sexton.

However, Sexton swapped in the whoops and ran off the track at one point. He was careful not to gain an advantage before re-entering the track, but he had some catching up to do, which he accomplished. Yet, Webb never gave an inch, leaving Sexton to hope for a mistake from Webb for the rest of the race, but that never happened.

Webb’s solid win was the fifth of the season for the Monster Energy Star Racing Yamaha Team rider, matching Sexton’s win total.

“[I felt] a little bit of everything, man,” Webb said. “It’s been a heck of a fight, and a rough two weeks, especially last week. So, it was much needed tonight. It was an incredible main event. We were going for it and if I made one little mistake, I knew he was going to get me. So, you want to talk about pressure, that was a lot. I’m just stoked on myself to rebound after last week to pull the holeshot and lead every lap with that kind of pressure. Man, it’s not easy to do. I’m stoked for myself, and I’m stoked for my team. I want to give it up to them. We made a bike change this week that was awesome. Last weekend was pretty hard on me and it’s great to get back up here and get another win, get the ball rolling, obviously stop the momentum that Chase had a little bit. But he’s going to be firing. I know he’s a hellova competitor.”

“It was just hard,” Sexton said. “I knew I could skim [the whoops] for a little bit, but I was using a lot of energy doing that. They’re really far apart, so just wasn’t getting too much drive, and Cooper wasn’t losing too much time jumping. So, I went to the jump line, made one mistake and went off the track, but other than that I felt like I was pretty solid. Coop rode a really good race. I pressured him the whole time and he didn’t make a mistake. Every time I tried to push a little bit more, I’d make a mistake. It was a tough track. You couldn’t really push too hard, and there wasn’t a whole lot of separation. He rode a great race and [I’ll] come back next weekend and try to do better, but it was a tough pill to swallow losing that race. But it is what it is, and we have two more.”

Justin Cooper, Webb’s teammate, filled out the podium after an impressive night of racing that included passing Sexton and his KTM teammate, Aaron Plessinger, to win his heat race earlier in the evening.

“I felt like I was riding better tonight all around,” Cooper said. “Obviously, a good heat race for me, and I just didn’t adapt to the track as well as I needed to. Those guys were pushing, and they kept pushing to the end, and they’re running a great pace that I just couldn’t figure out towards the middle there. I made a little bit of a charge toward them, and then lost track of them; I was kind of just in no man’s land in third. Third’s good for me tonight, it was a good day for me, so we’ll take all the positives from this.

An aggressive late-race pass on heat-race winner Ken Roczen, who was bumped off the track, allowed Malcolm Stewart to secure fifth place. Roczen, Dylan Ferrandis, Joey Savatgy, Shane McElrath, and Dean Wilson rounded out the top 10.

250SX East

The 250SX East main was a wild affair. Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Seth Hammaker came into the race with a small three-point lead in the championship over RJ Hampshire, but it was defending champ Tom Vialle who came away with the victory, the first of the year for the Red Bull KTM Team rider.

“Coming into this round I pretty much had to win,” Vialle said. “And I delivered tonight so that feels really good. I had a pretty big crash in practice, I hit my head pretty bad, but we bounced back. This track was tough tonight, but I had some good lines for the main event and could make the pass at the end. This one feels good, and I’m lucky to have the chance to fight for the title in Salt Lake City.”

After winning his heat race, Hammaker had a miserable first couple of laps in the main. He spun off the gate and was bounced around like a pinball in the middle of the pack during the first couple of laps. He was 15^th after the second lap. By the third lap, Hammaker was able to settle down and find his groove, and eventually worked his way into fifth by the checkers.

“It was going to come down to that last [round] regardless, and now it’s just winner take all for sure,” Hammaker said. “I just spun off the gate there, right when I went, on the grate, and just lost it from there. I had a sketchy first two laps, but we salvaged as good as we could. A fifth place was all we had tonight after that start. One point behind, we’ll take it to Salt Lake and see who’s crowned champion.”

Nate Thrasher, the lone Monster Energy Star Racing Yamaha Team rider in the 250cc class, led most of the race before Vialle got him. Thrasher went on to finish second, while Muc-Off/FXR/Club MX Yamaha’s Max Vohland got on the podium for the first time of his career.

“I was close to a win there,” Thrasher said. “I could taste it, I could feel it, and it was just one mistake, just like last weekend, that cost me. I feel like I’ve been able to win these last two and just haven’t been able to do it. But after my Atlanta crash a couple years ago my confidence just wasn’t the same in the whoops, and I’m glad to say I’m back. I feel great and that was my strength tonight. We’ll just keep chipping away and I think we’re going to be in contention in Salt Lake to get another win there. I’ve won there before so let’s go do it again.”

“We’ve been putting in so much work at the facility and it’s been such a long road for me,” Vohland said. “I can’t believe that I got here this soon with the [right foot] injury and everything. Having to come out and figure out a new way to ride with a hand brake. I came here in Pittsburgh to play with the hand brake – and I just want to give it up to all these fans. You guys were awesome tonight… [This is the] first career podium for me tonight and I feel a huge weight off my shoulders and I’m hungry for more.”

Hampshire was in contention for the win before crashing after tangling with a lapper, which cost him a position. He had to settle for fourth, two seconds ahead of Hammaker.

“It took me a little bit to get going and then there was just a lapper in the line,” Hampshire said. “I jumped left and I just hooked a little bit too far left and – man, it’s tough. I put myself in a good position tonight, and I threw it away. But I’ll praise Him in glory, and I’ll praise Him in defeat. We’re still in this thing, I just need to win in Salt Lake.”

A trio of Honda riders were next—Chance Hymas, Cullin Park and Henry Miller—while Yamaha riders Devin Simonson and Bryce Shelly rounded out the top 10.

With just one East round left, Vialle, the new points leader, is just one point ahead of Hammaker and three ahead of Hampshire. It’s a winner-takes-all scenario among these three at the series final in Salt Lake City. CN

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450SX (Top 10)

250SX East (Top 10)

QUALIFYING

450SX

As usual, the top 450 riders were trading times in qualifying. An adjusted schedule meant no free practice, so every time bikes hit the track it was for gate position. Chase Sexton was fastest in the second session and therefore ended up on top with the best overall time, half a second better than Cooper Webb. Webb’s lap proved better in the first qualifier but Sexton’s time held up in Q2. Amidst their battle, Malcolm Stewart and Ken Roczen jumped to third and fourth on the board, and were the last riders on the 47-second mark.

450SX Overall Qualifying (Top 10)

250SX East

RJ Hampshire is second in points but was first in qualifying today as he looks to pressure points leader Seth Hammaker. Hampshire’s time made a statement as he was a half-second better than Hammaker and nearly a full second faster than third place Max Vohland. Defending champ, Tom Vialle, had a huge crash in the second session but still held on for fourth overall.

250SX East Combined Qualifying (Top 10)

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