{"id":149085,"date":"2026-01-25T16:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/149085\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:46:16","slug":"sexton-earns-first-kawasaki-win-deegan-goes-makes-it-two-in-a-row-at-anaheim-2-sx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/149085\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexton Earns First Kawasaki Win, Deegan Goes Makes it Two in a Row at Anaheim 2 SX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tomac is now the lone rider to finish on the podium in each race thus far, with two wins and a third. He has an eight-point lead over Lawrence in the 450SMX Class standings, as Lawrence moved up to second on the heels of back-to-back runner-up finishes. Sexton moved into third, 13 points behind Tomac, while Progressive Insurance Cycle Gear Suzuki\u2019s Ken Roczen<\/a> dropped to fourth (-14) after he missed the podium for the first time in a valiant eighth-place finish that saw him fight back from 21st on the opening lap.<\/p>\n

Chase Sexton<\/a> \u2013 1st Place \u2013 450SMX Class<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a long few months, going back to the [crash at the] Vegas SMX finale. That was not good for me. It\u2019s hard to get back here [atop the podium], honestly. It\u2019s been a journey. Even after the Heat Race tonight I was wondering what I was doing wrong and knew I needed to just go out there and do my laps. I strapped up for the Main Event and just rode solid and more within myself. I can\u2019t say enough about the team and everything they\u2019ve done to get us to this point. It\u2019s good to put Kawi back on top.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunter Lawrence<\/a> \u2013 2nd Place \u2013 450SMX Class<\/p>\n

\u201cI just need a little more consistency throughout the day. Every time I went on the track I made a change to the bike, so every time I was learning the track again and trying to adapt to the bike. However, we are learning a lot and hopefully we can carry that through the rest of the series. I need to be better from the start through the beginning of the race. You could see I was a bit slow to get going, but I picked it up towards the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eli Tomac<\/a> \u2013 3rd Place \u2013 450SMX Class<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big picture [championship] is great. That race was a whole lot of everything. A lot of offense, a lot of defense. I tried some moves and got passed, and vice versa. I\u2019m happy to defend that podium spot, it was important for me, but that was a very intense race. Overall, I\u2019m happy with the finish and looking forward to next weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tomac is now the lone rider to finish on the podium in each race thus far, with two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[65682,163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-149085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-2026-supercross2026-supermotocross-world-championship-racer-x-motocross-magazine-supercross-dirt-bike-mx-racerx-illustrated-dirtbike-motorcycle-racing-freestyle-video-news","9":"tag-anaheim","10":"tag-anaheim-headlines","11":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149085","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=149085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}