{"id":555154,"date":"2026-03-21T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555154\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:08:08","slug":"10-things-to-watch-at-2026-birmingham-supercross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555154\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things to Watch at 2026 Birmingham Supercross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the points race so close up front for 450SX, <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/cooper-webb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Webb<\/a> has officially dropped 25 points back of <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/hunter-lawrence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Lawrence<\/a>. But <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/ken-roczen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Roczen<\/a> is only three points behind Webb making it a tight race for third. Now we know never to count these two out, and they surely are capable of winning more races this year, but it would take some luck on their side to get back into this championship fight. -Whitmore<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of luck, all <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/justin-cooper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Cooper<\/a> needs is a little bit of it on his side for him to nab his first ever 450SX win. He won the second race in Indy and had to pass <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/eli-tomac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Tomac<\/a> to do so. If the whoops turn into jumpers in Birmingham, could it be his night to get it done, or at least get back on the box? -Whitmore<\/p>\n<p>After taking a week off, supercross is rewarding fans by making Birmingham not only a 250 East\/West Showdown but also an SMX Next event. This race will be the final qualifier before the finale in Philadelphia. Check out some of the favorites like <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/landen-gordon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Landen Gordon<\/a>, <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/kayden-minear\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kayden Minear<\/a>, <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/kade-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kade Johnson<\/a>, <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/deacon-denno\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deacon Denno<\/a>, and <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/vincent-wey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vincent Wey<\/a>. -Whitmore<\/p>\n<p>Watch our roundtable SMX Next Daytona recap and Birmingham preview video below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the points race so close up front for 450SX, Cooper Webb has officially dropped 25 points back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-555154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555154","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=555154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}