2026 champ without Jett

if chase is feeling the KX...he wins by a mile.

if he's NOT feeling the KX...gonna come down to CW/ET/CS. I think CS ultimately takes it.

Tomac. 

this was my answer last week. My response has not changed. 

It'll be a Roczen/Tomac battle for the Championship.

Anyone who vote for Prado is suffering from low IQ disorder!  Unfortunately.

First Shimoda and now Jett. Two of my favorites are out, and we're not even in January yet.

A bit of a side note, but I just want to rant for a bit. I wish some these 250 guys would move up. Stop wasting all your years chasing a regional title that no one will care about in a few years. You only have so many years to make actual improvement as a rider, and if you move up to the 450 class around 30, you're probably too late. I'm just not that excited about guys like Hampshire, Smith, and Forkner moving up, because at this point, I think they're known quantities. I think a guy like Shimoda is better suited for a 450, and with his injury, I'm sure he'll stay down for at least a few more years chasing that title. Having old guys in the 450 class was fun when it just one or two guys like Dowd, Windham, or Reed, but now half the factory 450 guys are in their mid-30's, and most of the rest are approaching their 30's. That's not healthy for the sport. The 250 class is bottle-necked with older riders who can't put all the pieces together, and keep playing this game of injury Russian-roulette hoping this will be the year they don't weed it up and throw it away. And they keep getting rides because there's too many teams willing to throw money at them.

Guys like Jett bring some necessary new energy to the 450 class, and while I'm not a Deegan fan, I'm excited that he'll be moving up soon. I miss the days when guys like Wilson and Baggett were itching to get on a 450, and were willing to take the risk without the regional title. The sport needs more of that.

Who?

Nobody is forgetting about Eli, he's firmly in 2nd on this poll.

Agree, current poll is Sexton, Tomac, Webb, Hunter and then Roczen.  I have Hunter and Roczen switched, but the top 3 in that order.  Tomac will be in it for sure.

Webb, cooper, cooper lol. I’m guessing you putt jcoop twice?

Idk, for the guys who arent going to win a 450 championship and many wont win a 450 race, having that regional championship is a bigger deal on the resume than top 10s in the 450 class. Pays better too. 

Jett still wins. He's that effing good.

I understand that it pays better, but I think 250SX is over-valued because it gets equal air time. If it was a proper national class, and not a regional one, then maybe I'd feel differently. Splitting them in half, after a few rounds of injury, the fields get pretty thinned out at the top. I'd rather see how the best stack up with the 450's when they're full of potential, rather than when they're late into their career as a way to kind of cap it off.

So any season he doesn't win the championship is a "weak" season? That's a stupid take, even by your usual standard. He went 1-2-1 from '19 - '21, nothing "weak" about those numbers.

Anybody not thinking Webb is living in a river in Egypt.

4 votes for ferrandis is crazy 

The last two Kings of Paris went on to win the title 🤞🏽

CS is too inconsistent indoor. 

281-330-8004

Brilliant.

IFYKYK

Also, got some fairly epic the other Mike Jones stories from back in the day that I can't be fucked to type out right now.

Short versions: Jonesy getting the whole AX after party kicked out of a bar in Hampton Virginia. "Dude," he told the bouncer. "You act like no one ever spilled a beer in here before." That's a good one, and as awry as I ever saw Mike's beer bottle acrobatics ever go -- which is saying something. Picture a Coors Light sailing end over end for 30 feet right into a massive behind the bar mirror.

Or the time me 'n him snuck a 17-year old Bubba Stewart into a Steel City after party on the third floor of a Pittsburgh bar.

I digress. Hate to see Jett out. Gotta lean towards Webb.

My “little voice in my head” à la Magnum PI….tells me that Kenny is going to bring the title home in dramatic fashion! 

Who!?!? 

"A couple of 'em said I was cute but I was just too chubby
Same size a year later the same hoes wanna **** me"
 

"Because they see me paid, pimpin' pens, workin' my jelly
And I ain't trippin' cause my pockets stick out more than my belly"

I think if Tomac can keep it on 2 wheels and keep it on the podium if a win isn't there, then he can take it.

Honestly as long stays healthy I would put my money on him. I counted him out last year and I was far from right. He’s just too smart and consistent to count out and I’m sure winning last year might be a small confidence booster. 

Webb*

Glad this relates in more than one way. Mike Jones from ax is another choice. Roman just won everything in the plus classes at mini o’s. 

I doubt they’d admit it, but this is going to recalibrate some of these guy’s thinking. If Jett is healthy, maybe two others had a reasonable shot at the title. This brings 5-6 guys into the picture. Eli and Chase have had history of being really fast, but having their fair share of bad races. Webb might be the biggest benefactor. I think Roczen will wear down because of his fatigue issues. 

Chase just needs to stay on the podium and off the ground 

Reaction to this is pretty funny.  I just checked SMX results and dude went 4-1-2 overalls.  To think he’s not one of the favorites to win sx seems off base to me

<<< him