{"id":647973,"date":"2026-11-01T16:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647973\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:36:18","slug":"ken-roczen-still-racing-joins-cole-davies-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647973\/","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":647974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,317524],"class_list":["post-647973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racer-x-motocross-magazine-supercross-dirt-bike-mx-racerx-illustrated-dirtbike-motorcycle-racing-freestyle-video-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}