Eli Tomac took the lead on the ninth lap and raced to a 1.3-second win over Hunter Lawrence Saturday evening in the 43rd San Diego Monster Energy Supercross at Snapdragon
The win was Tomac’s second straight in San Diego and his fourth locally in the featured 450cc division. It was also Tomac’s second in as many 2026 starts for the KTM factory team and the 55th of his career.
Lawrence grabbed the lead out of the gate on his Honda and led the first seven laps until being passed by both Ken Roczen and Tomac. Tomac took the lead two laps later and held onto it for the final 15 laps. Lawrence regained second with two laps to go, with Roczen finishing third.
Tomac was also the No. 1 qualifier with a lap of 52.182 seconds. His KTM teammate Jorge Prado was the second-fastest qualifier at 52.417 seconds, with Roczen (52.426) in third. Chase Sexton (Kawasaki) and Roczen won the 450cc heat races with Prado and Tomac scoring seconds.
Sexton was fourth in the feature race, followed by Joey Savatgy (Honda), Justin Cooper (Yamaha), 2023 San Diego winner Aaron Plessinger (KTM) and defending series champion Cooper Webb (Yamaha). Prado finished 13th.
El Cajon native Christian Craig finished 15th in the main event after qualifying 17th and finishing fifth in his heat.
Top qualifier Haiden Deegan completed a sweep by winning the 250cc support race on a Yamaha. Deegan also paced qualifying and won his heat.
He finished 7.7 seconds ahead of Kawasaki’s Cameron McAdoo in the feature. Michael Mosiman was third on a Yamaha, finishing less than a half-second ahead of Kawasaki’s Levi Kitchen.
England’s Max Anstie, who won last week’s season opener in Anaheim, was fifth on a Yamaha. Alpine native Dilan Schwartz (Yamaha) finished ninth.