{"id":949063,"date":"2026-11-01T19:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T19:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949063\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T19:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T19:34:10","slug":"ken-roczen-still-racing-joins-cole-davies-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949063\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Roczen Still Racing, Joins Cole Davies in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Round 2 of the 2026 Boost Mobile AUSX Supercross Championship, presented by Monster Energy, delivered an action-packed night of racing at Auckland\u2019s North Harbour Stadium, with international stars <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/ken-roczen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Roczen<\/a> and <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/cole-davies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Davies<\/a> claiming the SX1 and SX2 overall victories, respectively, in front of almost 18,000 fans.<\/p>\n<p>The current Monster Energy Supercross 450SX champion Roczen (Pipes Motorsports Group) and reigning 250SX East champion Davies brought further firepower to an already stacked field, presenting a significant challenge for the championship\u2019s regular contenders as supercross made its return to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Their presence was felt immediately at the highly-technical Auckland racetrack, with Roczen clocking the fastest SX1 qualifying time via a 50.246s lap-time, edging out Townsville winner <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/christian-craig\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Craig<\/a> (Quad Lock Honda) and KTM Racing Team\u2019s <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/luke-clout\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Clout<\/a> in the process.<\/p>\n<p>In the SX2 division, Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing\u2019s Davies was in a league of his own, capturing P1 in qualifying with a 51.626s time \u2013 which was over half a second clear of MXRP Yamaha\u2019s <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/max-anstie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Anstie<\/a>. Monster Energy Yamalube Yamaha\u2019s <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/lux-turner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lux Turner<\/a> completed the top three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Round 2 of the 2026 Boost Mobile AUSX Supercross Championship, presented by Monster Energy, delivered an action-packed night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,52492,85],"class_list":["post-949063","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-racer-x-motocross-magazine-supercross-dirt-bike-mx-racerx-illustrated-dirtbike-motorcycle-racing-freestyle-video-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949063","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=949063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}