73

He will retire way before that; I don't think he loves riding a dirt bike like some of the older guys. He is good at it obviously, but I think it's a job for him, and he will retire as soon as he can. 

I wouldnt bet on anyone beating it ever, tbh. Its cool to speculate tho(like JS7 before him), but it didnt appear that Jett was gonna reel off 10 wins this year, to me at least.

73 is still more realistic than Carmichaels 143 moto wins 

Jett isn't making it to 73, lol. He has 9 wins in his first two seasons, McGrath had 19. And if Jett is going to have a 1997-ish season then he needs to offset it by a season like 1996 when MC won 14 out of 15 races. Jett will never accomplish that even with a longer schedule

Maybe now Jett is starting to realize why no one has ever come close to McGrath's record

It seemed like MC was always driven and having fun while winning. The feeling I get from watching RC, JS, RD, RV is that they were driven to win, but were looking for an early exit as possible due to (?burnout?) or just desire to move on. 

With today's social media pressures, it would seem unlikely that Jett (or most) would want to continue as long as MC anyways. 

It's a tough road to be king. 

Jett may make so much money so soon that he loses his drive.

Lets be honest here. The way Tomac has been riding this year. Polish up those starts again...and he can get into the 60's this year. A hell of a lot closer than Jett is. Then if he comes back for SX Only next year...even more added on.

He's 7 leading laps from 1000 laps led according RC (I think).....    Pretty amazing.   Also, amazing he doesn't have more titles.

Yeah, but Jett still has another year to go before he's the same age as Showtime his rookie season in the big class. So he actually has a 9-win and a Championship head start, year-for-year.

How does he have a 9 win head start? He has 9 wins after two seasons...Jeremy had 10 wins after his rookie year alone

MC only won 2 in 2001, right? Jett has 9 SX wins right now I believe (SX only, no SMX)

Let's see how 2026 goes, if he doesn't win at least 10 next year I don't think he gets there.

Because he started earlier. He has another year to go before he's the age the King was as a rookie.

Bring this bs topic up again when he's around the 55 win number. You fools need to just stop with this dumbass shit. 

He already has so much dough he never has to worry.

No he doesn't...McGrath was barely 21 his rookie season. He was born in November 1971. He was less than 8 months older than Jett was for his first premier SX race

Jett turns 22 in August. He's older now than McGrath was as a rookie

Having your second season be your throw away deff isn’t ideal, way too early for all this talk but we will see 

I'll repeat what I said in another thread recently. Why don't we care about the 7 titles and only the 72 wins? The wins are just a vehicle to the ultimate goal, the SX title. I'd rather have 8 titles and not beat 72 wins. Eli's got more wins than RC but 3 less titles

Because it's all just in response to Jett's quote on hoping to take the wins record.

MC was untouchable for all of his 7 title winning seasons. I’m just old enough to have witnessed the second half of his career. I don’t think the younger guys that don’t know understand how dominant he was. No one was anywhere near him year after year, with the one odd Suzuki year being the only exception. Jett is very good, and had a phenomenal outdoor season in a class that was decimated by injuries, but other than that he is nowhere near the dominance of MC. In a 450 class that is now full of healthy competition, Jett has been beat heads up by three different riders this year alone. That never happened to MC until the very end of his career. Jett will likely stack up a lot of titles like RC and RV, but getting to 72 requires sheer dominance week in and week out for nearly a decade.

First premier class race isn't a good metric for MC, because he raced '92 east coast in 250 class (not winning that year) while he was still in 125s. MC wasn't a rookie until a year after his first premiere race.

this isn't inconsistent with Natedawg's post. he is NOW older than MC WAS when MC is a rookie, regardless of whether Jett is now also a rookie (he's not). The implication is, Jett hasn't amassed the number of supercross wins anticipated at this stage in JEtt's career. 

The top guys make too much money to go that long.. doesn’t make any sense to risk your body when you’re set…

Would almost have to stay injury free from here on out and that is not a giving as we have seen.  Besides Deegan didn't see anyone coming up in the 250's that would challenge him in the future but that opinion has changed this year! Sexton is 26 so he will be around for a while but most everyone else in the 450 class is on the tail end.

Yes...so I'm right. Jett is older now than McGrath was as a rookie

If he races long enough with few enough injuries he might get there.  Those are two pretty big iffs in this sport though.  I also think the next couple years are where those wins are most likely to pile up.  He is way faster than anyone his age and most his challengers are significantly older other than sexton.  Basically I see Sexton being the one who might be the deciding factor on Jett getting close to 72 besides his health/longevity.  I don't see any 250 guys really being contenders for the next few years indoors.  

In general don't you think everyone brings up the 72 wins and never the 7 titles, though? After James won his 2nd title he said he was going to break 72 but didn't say anything about the titles

I think that tracks psychologically from a rider. Because, as a rider, wins are completely in your immediate headspace -- something you can chip away at every time you line up. 

A title is a larger effort that requires (of course) wins, but also help from a team, and dash of good fortune. A single mechanical could lose you a title, yet the week after that mechanical, you as a rider, can go out and still focus on the goal to grab one more win toward 73.

With Jett going down this year, that's one less key competitor for Eli to have to beat.  Would anyone be shocked to see Eli win another 7-8 wins this year given his current speed?  That would put him damn near 60 SX wins.  I know he says he is retiring, but if he goes on a win streak and gets up to 60 wins, does he come back part time for SX only and try to break the record?  Jett really shouldn't be discussing it right now, he's no where near close to be in the discussion.  Eli is the only one who has earned being in the discussion - and even that is barely earned.