{"id":129063,"date":"2026-01-11T10:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/129063\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:20:15","slug":"race-results-ama-supercross-round-1-anaheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/129063\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Results: AMA Supercross Round 1 | Anaheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Tomac and Max Anstie emerged as the winners at the opening round of the 2026 AMA Supercross Championship at Anaheim\u2019s Angel Stadium, in a night marked by high intensity and early drama.<\/p>\n<p>In the 450SX Main Event, Tomac delivered a controlled and mistake-free ride to claim the victory, ahead of Ken Roczen and Jorge Prado, who secured his first career Supercross podium. Prado was docked with 3 championship points as his bike failured the post-race sound test. However, the Spaniard keeps the third place behind Ken Roczen\u00b4s second place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mx1onboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/prado-y-tomac-anaheim-26_edited.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"820\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/prado-y-tomac-anaheim-26_edited-1024x820.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-135009\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The night was heavily impacted early on by a major incident involving Justin Barcia and Malcolm Stewart, who went down in a violent crash during the opening laps. The accident triggered an immediate red flag, forcing a restart and reshaping the race. Both riders were unable to continue.<\/p>\n<p><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/mx1onboard.com\/linkout\/125521\" rel=\"noopener sponsored nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"oneal-prodigy-five-five-blue-neonyellow_710x90\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/oneal-prodigy-five-five-blue-neonyellow_710x90.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"710\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest update at the time of writing is that Barcia was conscious when speaking to medical staff at the stadium, and was transferred to a local medical centre for assessments after initially being taken to the on-site medical unit. Malcolm Stewart was also taken to the on-site medical unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">450SX HIGHLIGHTS<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">250SX WEST COAST ROUND 1<\/p>\n<p>The 250SX West Main Event belonged to Max Anstie, who opened his campaign in dominant fashion. The British rider took advantage of a strong start and executed decisive passes in the closing stages to secure the win, becoming the oldest rider to win a 250SX Main Event at 32 years old. Behind him, the field remained tightly contested, but Anstie controlled the race when it mattered most.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Anstie-anaheim-1-26.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Anstie-anaheim-1-26.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-135007\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chance Hymas and Ryder DiFrancesco rounded the podium. This was the first-career podium for DiFrancesco, who led the early minutes of the Main Event. Title contenders Haiden Deegan and Levi Kitchen charged from behind to get 4th and 5th respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">250SX WEST COAST HIGHLIGHTS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eli Tomac and Max Anstie emerged as the winners at the opening round of the 2026 AMA Supercross&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,66459,66474,22439,66078,22441],"class_list":["post-129063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-eli-tomac","tag-ktm","tag-motocross","tag-mx1onboard","tag-supercross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}