{"id":451929,"date":"2026-02-01T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/451929\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:34:11","slug":"worldsbk-star-makes-stop-at-unmatched-show-ahead-of-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/451929\/","title":{"rendered":"WorldSBK star makes stop at \u201cunmatched show\u201d ahead of 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Garrett Gerloff stopped off at the AMA Supercross race in Houston this weekend ahead of the start of the WorldSBK season.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Kawasaki rider headed to Houston after the rain-affected Portimao <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Superbike<\/a> test on 28\u201329 January.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Houston marked the fourth stop on the AMA Supercross calendar and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/moto-x\/news\/1088739\/1\/consistency-pays-cooper-webb-houston-ama-supercross\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it saw defending 450SX Champion Cooper Webb seal his first victory of the year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During qualifying, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/995206\/garrett-gerloff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gerloff<\/a> was able to speak to the SMX Race Day Live show, where he expressed his admiration for the AMA Supercross riders.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI have such big respect for these guys and what they do, whether it\u2019s supercross or motocross,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHonestly, just the bike control that they all have and the timing and everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI mean, I ride moto on the side, but I got nothing on these guys. I\u2019ve just got big respect to their athleticism, too, and everything.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gerloff added compliments about the \u201cshow\u201d that AMA Supercross puts on at each round, having also stopped off at the Anaheim 1 round at the beginning of January.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWent to A1 this year, my first ever one. It was unreal, the show that [AMA Supercross has] is unmatched and happy to be back to Houston, which I try to come to every year, and just enjoy the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gerloff added that his wedding is coming up in a few weeks. It will fall between the first round of the World Superbike season on 20\u201322 February and the second round on 27\u201329 March.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI just got engaged to my long-time girlfriend, and we\u2019re really stoked to start out life together,\u201d Gerloff said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSo, got the wedding coming up, 11 March, and going to be a big step this year so I hope everything is good with that, we\u2019ve got a good season, and everything is just on the way up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Understandably, Gerloff put his support behind the Kawasaki riders in Houston. In the end, Pro Circuit Kawasaki\u2019s Levi Kitchen and Cameron McAdoo were able to step on the podium, finishing second and third, respectively, but in the 450SX class the factory team\u2019s lead rider, Chase Sexton, was unable to back up his win in Anaheim 2 and finished fifth overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garrett Gerloff stopped off at the AMA Supercross race in Houston this weekend ahead of the start of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,109804,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-451929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-garrett-gerloff","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}