After four rounds, the Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship finally left California, landing in Texas for Round 4 inside NRG Stadium. The first Triple Crown of the stadium season wasted no time living up to its reputation, producing unpredictable racing and three different winners across three sprint races.
But in classic Triple Crown fashion, none of those race winners claimed the overall. That honor went to Cooper Webb, who quietly avoided the chaos and turned consistency into his first win of 2026—much to the relief of the Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing camp after a frustrating start to the season.
Race 1 quickly turned into a Ken Roczen exhibition. The Progressive Insurance Cycle Gear Suzuki rider grabbed the holeshot, checked out, and spent the rest of the race minding his own business at the front. Roczen cruised to the win by 1.9 seconds over Chase Sexton, with Eli Tomac completing the podium. Cooper Webb settled in for fourth, Jorge Prado rounded out the top five, and a late tip-over sent Hunter Lawrence from podium dreams to seventh.
Race two opened with Jorge Prado grabbing the holeshot and looking very comfortable out front, while Hunter Lawrence and Jason Anderson gave chase. Cooper Webb lurked in fourth, Roczen was busy fighting traffic in eighth, and Eli Tomac and Chase Sexton decided to start things on hard mode—11th and 17th, respectively.
Prado led for most of the race until Lawrence politely but firmly took the spot late and rode off to the win. Webb did what Webb does, charging through the pack to grab second after getting around Prado, finishing 2.1 seconds back. Prado held onto third, followed by Justin Cooper and Roczen. Sexton salvaged ninth, and Tomac provided the highlight reel by crashing while running sixth before remounting for 13th.
After two races, Webb and Roczen were tied for the lead, with Lawrence and Prado locked together for second. Chaos pending.
The third and deciding race delivered maximum Triple Crown chaos. Eli Tomac grabbed the holeshot, followed by Jason Anderson and Hunter Lawrence, while Cooper Webb, Ken Roczen (11th), and Jorge Prado (14th) immediately found themselves in recovery mode. Webb made things even harder with an off-track excursion after the finish-line jump, dropping himself back to eighth behind every rider he cared about.
Out front, Anderson briefly took control before Tomac remembered why he wears the red plate, charging back past Lawrence and reclaiming the lead. Roczen worked his way into fourth and into the overall picture, while Lawrence slipped by Anderson for second and suddenly found himself in championship-winning position. Behind them, rhythm sections claimed multiple victims, shuffling the order until Webb capitalized on the chaos with a decisive pass for third—the move that ultimately sealed the overall.
Tomac cruised to the Race 3 win by 4.3 seconds, while Webb held off a late charge from Roczen in a battle that decided the night.
Webb didn’t dominate the night—he just outsmarted it. His 4-2-3 finishes and nine points were enough to secure the 31st win of his career and his sixth Triple Crown trophy. Lawrence nearly broke through for his first win, missing it by a single point after going 7-1-2, instead adding a third straight runner-up finish to his resume. Roczen completed the podium after tying Lawrence on points with 1-5-4 scores, but lost the tiebreaker thanks to Lawrence’s stronger Race 3.
Tomac rebounded in a big way with a Race 3 win, salvaging fourth overall with 17 points (3-13-1), while Sexton took fifth on 2-9-6 one week after winning Anaheim 2.
For the first time in 2026, Tomac left without a podium—and it showed in the standings. His lead dropped to four points over Lawrence, Roczen closed to 12, Sexton sits fourth at 14 back, and Webb’s win vaulted him into fifth at 17 behind.
The title fight just got crowded.